tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post5600196252972318023..comments2024-03-24T21:42:17.025-04:00Comments on Loose Threads: <small>Yet Another Costuming Blog</small>: The Biggest "Damn Little" EverCathy Raymondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-36183773319843073962018-10-01T15:44:33.213-04:002018-10-01T15:44:33.213-04:00Hi! Thanks for stopping by. I don't mind old...Hi! Thanks for stopping by. I don't mind old comments, so long as they aren't commercial spam, or attempts to start arguments just to be nasty. <br /><br />My belief is that costumers should do what they need to do to make clothing they can get into and out of, so long as they don't try to argue to all and sundry that everything they are doing is documented or period. Many SCA people do understand that not everyone needs to be a costuming Laurel and wear the most perfectly period designs possible and that some people have to make compromises for various reasons. Things get more contentious with Viking costume because there is only limited information about what Viking women wore and because Viking costume has become very popular in the SCA.<br /><br />Good luck! And enjoy wearing what you can wear comfortably to events.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-53122394289157474542018-06-08T10:27:28.175-04:002018-06-08T10:27:28.175-04:00Your blog has made me feel so much less terrified ...Your blog has made me feel so much less terrified to wear my own garments to an SCA event. I know this is an old post but I'm looking through. Because I'm disabled I made my apron dress open on both sides and it's laced on the side. This allows loosening while in my wheelchair or tightening if need be. I find it allows me greater freedom of movement which being disabled is something I need greatly from a wheelchair. I made my children's dresses the same way.KnottedFingershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11397327008284211590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-32423440535114154612016-03-15T19:06:31.552-04:002016-03-15T19:06:31.552-04:00Whoa. That's quite a question.
I'm not...Whoa. That's quite a question. <br /><br />I'm not sure anyone could process all the possible useful information if it were placed in one gigantic spreadsheet. You'd have to do a full Excel workbook, with different pages optimized for different issues.<br /><br />The different sub-spreadsheets I'd like to see include: All tortoise brooch finds where there are enough skeletal remains to attempt to estimate the age at death (for attempting to deduce what ages of females wore the apron dress); All grave finds with paired tortoise brooches, sorted by the number/wealth of grave goods; All female grave finds with brooches, sorted by number of beads present in the grave; graves with bead spreaders (sorted by region so one could confirm the region/s in which large numbers of strands were worn between brooches). Rebecca Lucas did the world a real service by compiling a chart of Birka finds that identified the fiber content of surviving apron dress loops and, where known, what the fabric of the body of the apron dress appears to have been.Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-23266466564732522952016-03-15T17:16:54.290-04:002016-03-15T17:16:54.290-04:00If you could have a table/ spreadsheet with whatev...If you could have a table/ spreadsheet with whatever you wanted in it ... what would that be?Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06931140462465806953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-48940067642007893682016-03-15T17:12:41.490-04:002016-03-15T17:12:41.490-04:00Tell me about it. I probably got citations for 20...Tell me about it. I probably got citations for 20 more female burial sites just from reading the Cumwhitton book last night! I doubt that there's any substantial textile finds there, but you never know.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06931140462465806953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-62498644116098134912016-03-02T16:24:00.918-05:002016-03-02T16:24:00.918-05:00Part of the reason it's hard to identify patte...Part of the reason it's hard to identify patterns in the data--any data, not just data about Viking age archaeological textile finds--is that it takes a surprising amount of effort to gather it into one place. As Mulder said (or should have said) to Scully, sometime during the X Files series: "The truth is out there--it's just badly indexed." :-)Cathy Raymondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04580681386443534011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2670213486548123819.post-9605921306162256202016-03-02T16:18:33.391-05:002016-03-02T16:18:33.391-05:00The internet has made research a whole lot easier,...The internet has made research a whole lot easier, that's for sure. I agree that the difficulty lies in consolidating all the information that's out there. Currently it's very hard to identify patterns in the data.Stella Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05469996244394603024noreply@blogger.com