Gaeira's Anvil (A&S)

Fiber: Flax

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Metalsmithing Resources

* Sawing Tips
*Metal Alloy Table
*Suppliers
*Class Handouts


Personal A&S
Projects
- Viking Apron Dress
- Viking Under Dress

- Tablet Woven Belt
- Tablet Woven Belt, 2nd

- Woven Pouch

- Shawl
-
Cloak

RESEARCH

Viking Age: Jewelry
Metallic
- Construction

-
Brooches
Non-Metallic
- Lampwork, Glass Beads

Viking Age: Textiles
- Clothing
- Female Clothing
- 'Apron' Dress / VAD

- Hood
- Kaftan

- Leg Coverings NEW

Period Fiber Arts
- Fiber: Flax
- Fiber: Hemp
- Fiber: Lime Bast
- Fiber: Icelandic Wool
- Spinning
- Weaving
- Wool Felting
- Tablet Weaving
- Nålebinding
-
Sprang and Fingerloop
- Icelandic Textiles

-
Edge Finish

- Textile Decorations

* Stitches and Seams

* Embroidery
* Sewing Tips
* Dress Form



Miscellany
- Bone, Antler, and Horn

- Footware

ICELANDIC VIKINGS
- Research
- Textiles
- Burial
- Animals
- Icelandic Wool
- Miscellany

VIKINGs/Norse
- Arts
- Burial
- Heraldic Display
- Viking/ON Names
- Runes
- Conferences
- Voyages
- Miscellany


- Heraldry
- Heraldic Display
* SCA Heraldry

- Silk Painting
* SCA Dates

- Resources/Links

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IDD Guilds

Web: IDD Metalsmiths' Guild

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Web: IDD Gilded Dragon


Please also see: Fiber: Hemp, Fiber: Lime Bast, Fiber: Icelandic Wool, Viking Age: Voyages and Sailing


Phloem (on Wiki.com)

Bast Fiber (on Wiki.com)

Linen (on Wiki.com)


More About Bast Fiber Plants
&
Steps in Processing Bast Fibers
by Susan Koziel (SCA: Kataryna Tkach)


Atton, Mavis. Flax culture from flower to fabric. Owen Sound, Ontario: The Ginger Press, 1988.
[Worldcat.org] [The Ginger Press]
"A practical guide to raising your own flax and creating your own linen yarn and fabric. Unfortunately this book is out of print and no longer available from The Ginger Press."
"Mavis Atton is a master spinner who has been raising her own flax and making it into linen in Grey County for the past twenty years."


Heinrich, Linda. Linen: From Flax Seed to Woven Cloth. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. 2010. [Worldcat.org] [Schiffer Pub.]


Fibre Flax Planting and Processing Instructions (InfoSheet D2701)
by Richters

Linen research
on farm-agricultural.blogspot.ca

How to grow a shirt and other revolutionary ideas
by Joybilee Farm

Digital Archive of Documents Related to Linens
on cs.arizona.edu

Fiber Products
on SaskFlax.com


Historically

Linen Textiles and Flax in Classical Greece: Provenance and Trade
by Marie-Louise Nosch

Flax in the Viking Age
by The Ribe Vikinge Center (English site)
From Flax to Linen: Experiments with Flax at Ribe Viking Centre (90-page, PDF)
by Bo Ejstrud, Stina Andresen, Amanda Appel, Sara Gjerlevsen, Birgit Thomsen
Edited by Bo Ejstrud
Ribe Viking Centre & University of Southern Denmark Esbjerg, 2011

Print: Print & Sign, University of Southern Denmark
ISBN: 978-87-992214-6-2

Environmental History of the Rhine—Meuse Delta (309-page, PDF)
by P.H. Nienhuis
- see, Chapter 3, "The Delta in the Later Middle Ages (800–1500)"
pp. 49-80
[Worldcat.org]

Trade between England and Russia in the second half of the Sixteenth Century
by Alexander Gorokhovsky
Student Economic Review, Vol. 18, 2004



Hand Papermaking

Growing and Hand Processing Fibre Flax and Hemp for Hand Papermaking (9-page, PDF)
by Helmut Becker
2008 International Conference on Flax and Other Bast Plants
(ISBN #978-0-9809664-0-4) ID number: 28
Handpapermaking Magazine (Backissues)

Growing and Processing Fibre Flax and Hemp for Hand Papermaking
by Helmut Becker (36-page presentation, PDF)
FlaxHemp PaperWorks & Press
on Saskflax.com


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  25Mar2014