A one year anniversary

Today was the day, but one year ago. The day when I publiched the article on my embroidered haube. A year has past, and almost no one have seen it. To me it does not feel new anymore. But that might change when I have a chance to wear it in public for the first time. 

The haube was a project within a project so to speak. The society of the golden egg is a challenge household for the arts and sciences in the Kingdom of Drachenwald, within the Society for Creative Anachronism. The aim of the Society of the Golden Egg is to encourage artisans to increase their knowledge and skills through continuous challenges of at least intermediate difficulty, but which are a personal challenge to the person seeking to join the society. Challengers normally have up to one year to complete their challenge. 

My challenge was to recreate a german 16th century embroidered haube, from 1510-15.

The plan was to report on the project in mars 2020. But when corona came you all know what happened. But to be fair, I didnt do it to be approved to the society of the golden egg, that was just the framework. I did it to challenge myself. I did it because I love the painting its from, Portrait of a woman by Berhard Strigel. The golden egg gave me a chance to do all this, to challenge myself. To start dreaming of what project I could do. But of course, I wanted to show it of when it was done. Of course I did. Im proud of it. 

To read more about the project and the making of it, look here.

But there has been fun things happening during this period of plague. The haube have been in a magasin. That was an honour. A magasin about handicrafts, called Hemslöjd. 

And one day soon, we will all meet again and the haube will be used, a lot!

Happy one year anniversary! Maybe I should have worn it today...

Another try at a striped 16th century hairnet in sprang.

I made another try at the 16th century sprang striped hairnet. And this time I think it went better than the last time. I made more stripes and the threads for each stripe were not connected. In the last one they were. That ment I needed to put a binding on it to hide all the knots at the top. But a lot of 16th century nets has a binding, so that was not a thing. It took some time to attach all the loose ends to the binding in the end though, something you dont need to do if all the threads are connected. It took much longer to make the binding than to make the net.

Its made of 72 loops and a 46 cm warp.

This too is made in blue and gold linen. 6 loops of blue and two of gold. The goldcolour is actually called pumpkin when buying it. I need to buy some more of that, it has the right golden colour that was so popular during the 16th century in Germany.

 

Its wore with a wulst here but is possible to use without too of course.

 

Im in love with the back, it look so good! 

One end of the sprang fabric is collected, its the circle in the back you see in this picture, were the stripes meet. The rest is drawn together with the drawstring.

 

The binding is made of wool and the net has a fingerloop braid in blue linen to close it in the back. This net sold in under an hour, its probably the fastest I have ever sold anything. Another one is already in the making. Its a good thing its great fun.