Calontir Fiber and Needle Guild

Historic textile links

BROKEN LINKS

This is a list of broken links that have been pulled from the Calontir Fiber and Needle Guild Textile Links and Email Lists page. If you have any information about the new addresses of these pages, please email me. Thank you. - Cara

Dyeing of fiber or fiber products

To Make a Beautiful Colour : Period Trade Dyes in the Sixteenth Century by Gwyndolynn Carnegie
Historical Dyes and Practices 400AD to 1600AD
The Woad Page : a page devoted to the woad plant and its uses Period Sources

Embroidery, Counted Thread
Such as cross-stitch, Assisi, blackwork, needlepoint, cut-and-drawn.

Blackwork

A History of Blackwork Embroidery by Madilayn de Mer

Embroidery, Free-form

Transferring Embroidery Patterns to Fabric by Madilayn de Mer
12th Century Embroidery Patterns

Fibers

Silk

Silk: the science of sericulture by The Honorable Lady Gwenievere Pereal Smythe

Cotton

Uses and Availability of Cotton in the 16th and 17th Centuries in Europe by Fetcher Manny

Lacemaking
Includes network or laces, needle laces such as reticella, punto in aria, rose point, gros point, bobbin lace, sprang, macrame, and woven laces.

Bobbin Lace

Heidi's Bobbin Lace Notes

Weaving, Band/Tablet/Inkle

Tablet weaving

The Galloping Leopard by Bonnie Datta
Pennsic Tablet Weavers' Tea Pictures and text of weaving compliments of Ingerith of Egilsey (mka Julie Johnson)
Tablet Weaving Archive
Tablet Weaving -- Internet Resources
Tablet Weaving Patterns by Virginia Corman
Vine with Rose Pattern by Mistress Eleanor of Ashley

Inkle weaving

An Introduction to Inkle Weaving by Lady Anne Marie De Garmeaux

Weaving, Standard

Warp weighted loom

Recreating Period Fabric Production using a warp weighted loom
The Warp-Weighted Loom


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