[MR] FW: [bhakail-list] 511 hours to make a dress in 1066

[Olwen the Odd]

Forwarded from the EK.  I just had to.  I mean ...WOW..
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>Here's a great link re. spinning, dyeing, weaving and handsewing an
>Ango-Saxon Cyrtel (dress) for a recreation of the Battle of Hastings:
>http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/
>
>Appendix with hours each part of the process took:
>http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/appendix_a.html
>The appendix also contains dye recipes and a bibliography of recommended
>reading.
>
>It took 201 hours, and that was with using commercially prepared combed
>wool and a spinning wheel, a later invention, instead of a spindle which
>would be period.
>Preparing the wool from the fleece for spinning would have added 60 hours
>(see http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/spin.html)
>Using a spindle appropriate to the period instead of a spinning wheel (a
>later invention which is out of period) would have added 250 hours (see
>http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/spin.html)
>
>So done entirely with period methods the time investment would have been
>approximately 511 hours. Wow!  I find that mind-blowing.
>
>She had a loom and wove the fabric in a broken lozenge (diamond) pattern,
>very common in period. I haven't yet seen it in a commercial fabric.
>
>Inga/Linda
>
>--forwarded from Norsefolk_2 at yahoogroups.com--
>
> >Is this the one you're thinking of?
> ><http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/>http://home.insight.rr.com/cains/documentation/

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