Wednesday 26 February 2014

More from the hood.




Here are, as promised, the other photos from the finished hood. It's placed with the head opening on my demo head - a popular way of wearing hoods in the late middle ages.



The wool is a lightly fulled tabby, dyed with weld (reseda luteola) and a tiny smidgeon of madder (rubia tinctoria). The seams are running stitches, and the seam allowance is folded to one side and secured/neatened with hem stitches, in some places folded apart and secured to both sides of the seam, also with hem stitches.



The cut is oriented on the hoods found in Herjolfsnaes and London, with a shorter "cape" part than, for instance, the Bocksten find hood.

And also: Gratuitous cat pic.



2 comments:

Miriam said...

Thank you for the extra details!

Cathy Raymond said...

Yes, I wanted to know what vegetable dyes gave that incredible color. Also, thanks for the lovely picture of your cat.