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 Topic: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
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| mmy Replies: 16 Views: 32328 |
 Forum: Other Lifestyle Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:12 pm Subject: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
| Quote "Gute is one of those fleeces that have wool and kemp"
what is kemp? Kemp is the cover hairs. All the ancient breeds of sheep have two coats, one soft woolly inner coat and one outer, hair ... |
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| Topic: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
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| mmy Replies: 16 Views: 32328 |
Forum: Other Lifestyle Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 5:40 pm Subject: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
| Maggie, were you successful with the Gute wool? Was there enough of a difference that you could spin <1mm threads and have them stay together while weaving?
oh yes, it was very successful. G ... |
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| Topic: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
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| mmy Replies: 16 Views: 32328 |
Forum: Other Lifestyle Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:43 am Subject: Extreme Medieval Arts and Sciences |
| last year (or was it earlier this year, I forget), we did go through a process of getting raw wool straight off the sheep / alpaca
Nigel I once imported a Gute fleece in the grease to New Zealand. ... |
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| Topic: Finding Flint in NZ |
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| mmy Replies: 19 Views: 45715 |
Forum: Other Crafts Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:05 pm Subject: Finding Flint in NZ |
well, the bag I have of flint did.  |
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| Topic: More interesting Headblow? |
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| mmy Replies: 199 Views: 211411 |
Forum: Reenactment Combat Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:07 am Subject: More interesting Headblow? |
| Ha! Yes he is but in this context it is used in replace of Herr as defined below.
HERR - sir FREY - master; could also be used in formal context to address a respected equal Could you give me so ... |
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| Topic: Hide Breaking |
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| mmy Replies: 8 Views: 14364 |
Forum: Textiles, Garb and Jewelery Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:13 pm Subject: Re: Fur farming felines |
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Thanks Maggie (I still blame you for me being in this game. Not a thing to be ashamed of.) uhm.... you're welcome. I'm sorry, but I have no idea who you are, so I don't know how to feel abou ... |
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| Topic: Hide Breaking |
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| mmy Replies: 8 Views: 14364 |
Forum: Textiles, Garb and Jewelery Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 7:06 pm Subject: Hide Breaking |
| no, this was a purely skeletal find. No fur that I'm aware of. | |
| Topic: Hide Breaking |
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| mmy Replies: 8 Views: 14364 |
Forum: Textiles, Garb and Jewelery Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:18 pm Subject: Hide Breaking |
| There was an archaeological dig in Denmark which found a cat fur farm. The assumption it was a fur farm was based on the age and condition of the cat skeletons found in great numbers on the site.
I ... |
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