Calontir Fiber and Needle Guild
Historic textile links


Calontir A&S Judging Criteria

Links to Fiber
Related Sites

Historic Textile
Email Lists

Other SCA
Fiber Guilds

Broken Links

If you have any fiber related links that you'd like posted on this page, please email me. Thank you. - Cara

Historic Textile Email Lists
Calontir Fiber Guild - This is the e-newsletter and e-mail discussion list for members of the Calontir Fiber and Needle Guild, within the Society for Creative Anachronism.
An Tir Spinner's List - a list for the discussion, in detail, of spinning, dyeing, weaving and other fiber arts within the context of SCA. Suitable subjects are: book recommendations and comments upon these, technical questions about fiber, discussions of the merits (or lack thereof) or various types of equipment or materials available, requests for help with research in period textiles and their uses, searches for sources for modern supplies and equipment, announcements of meetings and workshops, and anything else that may occur to list members within these guides.
SCA-Card-Weaving List - A SCA focused list for the discussion of historical Tablet/Card Weaving. Heavy overlap with tabletweaving list below).
Historic Needlework List - a list for the discussion of historical needlework .This includes, but is not limited to, embroidery, knitting, crochet, tatting, netting, lace making. Excluded are spinning, weaving, quilting, and machined techniques (such as machine knitting). Currently the list includes all time periods. Although sponsored and maintained by SCA members, this list not an SCA-only list. Please do not use SCA specific terminology.
Tablet Weaving List - a non-SCA list that focuses any type of tablet weaving. It is run by TWIST (Tablet Weavers International Studies & Techniques). Please do not use SCA specific terminology.
SCAWeaving List - Share information on early/Middle Ages/Renaissance weaving and its re-creation. Includes re-creation in the Society for Creative Anachronism, but anyone with an interest in medieval/Renaissance weaving is very welcome. Floor loom, table loom, warp-weighted loom, tapestry, etc.
Historic Costuming List - a non-SCA list for the discussion of historical clothing. Accessories and embellishments on clothing are also discussed. All time periods and places are discussed, with strong emphasis on 16th-19th century western clothing. Please do not use SCA specific terminology. To subscribe to the list, go to the website and look in the section labeled "Lists maintained outside Ansteorra". On the fourth line down, scroll to H-Costume and click options. This will take you to a subscribe page.
SCA Garb list - The purpose of this page is to create a showcase for the talented clothiers, costumers, seamstresses and tailors of the SCA to share their articles, class handouts, book reviews, and pictures of their work.
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Other SCA Fiber Guilds

An Tir Spinning Guild - includes Bibliograpy and Glossary
S.W.A.T. (Spun, Warped & Twisted) - Atlantia's Fiber Arts Guild Newsletter

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Fiber Related Websites

The following categories are sorted into categories based on Calontir Judging criteria, with the addition of sections on Fibers and on History & Bibliography. If you have any links on these subjects, please email me so I can add them. - Cara

Basketry -- Dyeing -- Embroidery, Counted thread -- Embroidery, Free form -- Felt making -- Fibers -- Knitting, Crochet & macrame -- History & General Bibliorgaphy -- Lacemaking -- Needlework, Misc. -- Spinning -- Weaving, Band/Tablet/ Inkle -- Weaving, Standard
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Basketry
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Dyeing of fiber or fiber products

Black In Period : The use of black as a dye, ink and paint between 1150-1250 By Lydie LaBarthe
Color in Elizabethan Dress list of cloth colors used throughout the 16th and early 17th century was compiled by Penny Ladnier
Colors, Dyestuffs, and Mordants of the Viking Age : an introduction by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Colors for Lower-Class Elizabethan Clothing by Drea Leed
Dye History from 2600 BC to the 20th Century by Susan C. Druding
Dyes and Dyeing from Clothing of the Ancient Celts by M.E. Riley
Early and Medieval Western Works on Dyes and Dyeing by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Fabrics and Colours by Trish Lambert, for the Grey Company
Kathryn of the Hills' Dye Book
Natural dyeing Carol Todd's homepage -- includes dyeplant of the month
Orchil, the poor person's purple by Chris Laning
Dye Recipies from the Innsbruck Manuscript: Ingredients, Dyestuffs and a Bibliography
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Embroidery, Counted Thread
Such as cross-stitch, Assisi, blackwork, needlepoint, cut-and-drawn.

Elizabethan Embroidery Resources
Medieval Embroidery Some Charted Examples by Joyce Miller
Medieval and Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
Stitch on line : from the Skinner Sisters, a magazine of embroidery and the needlecraft -- past, present and future
A Stitch Out Of Time : Historical embroidery for the modern era

Cross Stitch

Cross Stitch Embroidery in the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Karen Larsdatter

Assisi

Assisi Work: Noah's Ark by Lady Clare de Estepa

Blackwork

Blackwork Embroidery Project by Clare de Estepa
Elizabethan Blackwork - the Blackwork Embroidery Archives
The Elizabethan Practical Companion Blackwork Gallery
Lady Roxanne's Blackwork Article
16th Century Blackwork Embroidery by Kateryn de Develyn

Needlepoint

Cut and drawn

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Embroidery, Free-form

Developing Your Own Pattern Book  by Maistreas Sîban nî Sheaghdha
Embroidery and Costuming by Lord Henry Percivale Kempe
Medieval and Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
Metal Thread and Purl Embroidery
Simple Embroidery by Sîban nî Sheaghdha
A Stitch Out Of Time : Historical embroidery for the modern era

Bayeux Tapestry and other early embroidery

Anglo-Saxon and Viking Works of the Needle : Some Artistic Currents in Cross-Cultural Exchange by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Embroidery - ca 11th century Scotland
Embroidery Techniques from Regia Anglorum
A Guide To The Bayeux Tapestry Images
Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs by Carolyn Priest-Dorman

Opus Anglicanum

Opus Anglicanum
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Felt making

Contact Mistress Myra Nedlesaeng for assistance.
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Fibers

Wool

Wool and Stuff - wool used in Anglo-Scandinavian England, from Regia Anglorum

Silk

Silk Descriptions from "Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture" exhibition

Other animal fibers

Linen & hemp

Cotton

Other plant fibers

Making Yarn From Nettles by Roz Sheard
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History & General Bibliographies

Bibliography of Embroidery, Textiles and Weaving
Fiber working techniques in Medieval Ireland and Scotland
Just What Exactly is "Whyt Samyt" Anyway? being a handweaver's bibliography of sources for technical information on divers weaves and setts of the Roman Empire, Middle Ages, and Renaissance by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
North European Symposium on Archaeological Textiles - Contents listing, compiled by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Real Medieval Fabric by Cynthia Virtue aka Cynthia du Pré Argent
Textiles - Saxon & Viking, from Regia Anglorum site
Textile Resources for the Re-enactor by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Textiles Through Time
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Knitting, Crochet & Macrame

Knitting

Fifteenth-Century Men's "Acorn" Caps (and How to Knit One)
Hand Knit Hose a Knitted Stocking Pattern By Donna Flood Kenton
Knitting Bibliography by Nancy Spies
Knitting Period Stockings
Textile Crafts : Knitting

Nålebinding

Naalbinding Basics by Lady Morganna McGlachlen of Shadewes Company
Nalebinding - Regia Anglorum site
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Lacemaking
Includes network or laces, needle laces such as reticella, punto in aria, rose point, gros point, bobbin lace, sprang, macrame, and woven laces.

A Brief History of Lace in the 1500's
The Craft of Lace
Lace Resources (links)
The Lacemaker's Home Page (Arachne's Web Page)
Other Lace
Period Network Lace Pattern
16th Century Lace

Needlelace

Basic Reticella Lace
A Few Examples of Needle Lace
Needle Lace Annotated Bibliography by Charlene S. Noto

Punto in Aria

Period Punto in Aria Pattern

Rose Point

Gros Point

Bobbin Lace

The Bobbin by Robert I. Spragg
Bobbins on The Mary Rose
Bobbin Lace Pillow: Types and Construction by Baroness.Briana Etain MacKorkhill
A brief overview of the early history of bobbin lace
Dreams of Lace: Bobbin Lace
A Few Examples of Bobbin Lace
Lace in the SCA
16th Century Bobbin Lace: A Practical Introduction by Mistress Mathilde Adycote
The Use of Bone in Making Bobbins for Bobbin Lace

Sprang

Patterned Sprang from Phiala's string pages
Picture of Sprang
Pictures of Phiala's sprang
Sprang - The history, origins, construction and use of thread twisting, from Regia Anglorum
Sprang Bags from Phiala's string pages

Macrame

Woven lace

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Needlework, Miscellaneous
Includes couching, trapunto, applique, smocking, quilting and beadwork

Couching

Trapunto

Applique

Smocking

Quilting

A Collection of Notes on the Historical Aspects of Quilting by Kateryn de Develyn
History of Quilting by Lady Bianca Rose Byrnes

Beadwork

Fingerloop Braids

A Few Medieval Braids - from Phiala's String Pages
Medieval Fingerloop Braiding - by Andy Goddard

Kumihimo

Informal Glossary on Kumihimo by Makiko Tada
Samurai Armor in the Making by William Shetler

Lucets

Lucets - on Regia Anglorum site
How to use a lucet - from Phiala's string pages
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Spinning

Fiber preparation

Equipment

Italian Handspindle - example of an unusual spindle

Instructions

Drop Spindles - by Kathryn of the Hills
Spinning - Dark Age Crafts site
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Weaving, Band/Tablet/Inkle

Tablet weaving

Contact Tamara Tysjachyvolosova for assistance.
Adventures in Tablet Weaving! by Eirny Thorvaldsdottir
Basic Tablet Weaving, from Phiala's String pages
Bibliography of Sources for Information on Period Tablet Weaves by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Braid-Weaving - tablet weaving information from Regia Anglorum
Brettchenweben (German)
Brocaded Tablet Weaving by Lord Rufus of Stamford aka Robert Schweitzer
Card Weaving Study based on the book, Card Weaving by Candace Crockett
Double Faced 3/1 Broken Twill from Phiala's string pages - pictures
Eachna's Tablet or Card Weaving Page
How to Make a Continuous Warp by Linda Hendrickson
Making Authentic Tablets
Photos from the A Saxon Threaded-In Tablet Weave by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
Tablet Weaving (Eric Praetzel)
Tablet Weaving from Dark Age Crafts site
Tablet Weaving by Melanie Wilson
Tablet Weaving Patterns by Bonnie Datta
Tablet weaving pictures from Phiala's string pages
Tablet Weaving Theory from Phiala's string pages & sample snartemo pattern
Textile Crafts: Braid
Threading tablets from Phiala's string pages
Toli's Inexpensive Inkle/Cardweaving Loom Design
The Ultimate Tablet Weaving Bibliography
Viking-Style Tablet Weaving: Birka Strapwork Motif by Carolyn Priest-Dorman
The Weavers Hand An information page for weavers! Specifically for those interested in Tablet Weaving, Kumihimo, and Ply-splitting.
Wickelbander (early medieval woolen bands) by Peter Beatson

Inkle weaving

Toli's Inexpensive Inkle/Cardweaving Loom Design
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Weaving, Standard

Warp weighted loom

Weaving on the Warp-Weighted Loom : Some Source Materials by Carolyn Priest Dorman

Horizontal loom

How To Build a Frame Loom
How to Warp Your Frame Loom
The Medieval Technology Pages: The Horizontal Loom

Tapestry

Coptic Style Tapestry by Bronach Nålbrjótr
Galleria delle Tappezzerie
Tapestries Presents : A Timeless History of Tapestry and Wall Hangings



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