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Late Antique Egyptian Shoes (1st shoe)
In the course of combing through museum catalogues to learn more about life in late antique Egypt, I came across a few pairs of ornate leather shoes. This opened up a whole new research burrow to explore, and what I…
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Egyptian oval basket progress
I finished the main body of my Egyptian-style oval basket earlier this year. Once the sides were about an inch shorter than the intended finished height, I rotated where I was holding the core to the inside face of the…
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Willow Bark Basket Class 2025
I taught several classes at the local “Hunter’s Moon” event on Labor Day Weekend this year. The last one was a make-and-take small willow bark basket class. This was the first time I did this kind of basketry class. (I…
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Nettle fiber (part 2)
My nettle fiber experiment continues! You can read Part 1 here. After the initial peeling and rubbing of the outer layers, I still needed to remove some flakes of the outer skin and separate the fibers more consistently. I tried…
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“Basketry and Plants” Page Updates
I recently updated the Basketry and Plants page with annotated lists of useful books, journal articles, and online sites/repositories. The Basketry resources list already includes books that cover foraged basketry materials, but they do not focus heavily on how to…
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Nettle Update: Spinning Thread
I tried spinning a small amount of my nettle fiber that I “hackled” by pulling it repeatedly through one of my double-row wool combs. What was left looked very nice and straight. I wanted to see if I could spin…
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Experimenting with Red Twig Dogwood
This spring I received the sad news that the founder of the first household I officially joined in the Society had died unexpectedly. It was just eight months after the loss of one of my dearest friends and a highly…
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Nettle Fiber (part 1)
In late winter this year I discovered by happenstance that the larger stems I had left standing in my nettle bed had achieved an excellent level of breakdown (“retting”) to free the bast fibers from the green gunk and woody…
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Life Attack
I just updated my list of upcoming events I plan to attend and realized my last post was 2.5 months ago! So here’s what has been up. (I tend to post basic crafty updates on BlueSky, which is now added…
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Antinoë Women’s Fashion – Headbands and Hoods
This project started when I discovered a type of women’s headwear from Antinoë that is essentially a large fabric headband with padding inside. Some of the extant objects are woven fabric with bulky ribbing created by adding extra weft, and…
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