I wear a crocheted instead of knitted snood under my hat, right? :-P
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Sat, February 9, 2008 - 4:49 PMNot me, as I still do, too. Just be sure to wear your hat or bonnet on top, as that's what I find annoying... snoods/cauls without hats. :-) (Unless one is portraying Italian). -
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Sat, February 9, 2008 - 5:49 PMooooo I hate that too.
Allison you will be fine, just wear another hat with it. :) -
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Sun, February 10, 2008 - 9:44 PMAdrienne currently has far too many snoods! I think she needs fewer!
Or more?
What color do you want to wear this year, m'dear? Do you want beads in that? <w>
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Mon, February 18, 2008 - 8:13 PMthere are two schools of thought about crocheting. I have numerous books on the subject and there are some that suggest crocheting was in favor well before Renaissance times. I have one that is showing "irish lace making" in the 1500's that is done with a fine needle with a hook on the end of it. I know some guilds that are very "it must be knitted": but you know what. We are not England in the 1500's in the middle of a mini ice age. We are in southern california in the midst of global warming. its an illusion that we are portraying so let us look good, and with a second hat that is also not woven too tightly, may we all stay on our feet with no heat stroke. -
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Mon, February 18, 2008 - 9:12 PMAlso, while the name 'crochet' is more recent, the art of using a hook to tie a series of knots is not. Fishermen have been using hooks for nets for a very long time. -
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Sat, February 23, 2008 - 10:40 AMHm. The netting shuttles and mesh sticks I've seen don't have a hook on them at all.
One key factor is that there are _no_ documented examples of surviving crochet from before about 1820. All of the examples that used to be categorized as crochet have turned out to actually be nalbinding -- a completely different craft. Considering that we do have a lot of surviving textiles in both knitting and nalbinding from before 1800 -- even though some of them are just scraps -- the complete absence of crochet certainly counts for something.
Netting, actually, would be a fun craft to learn; it's not that hard, and you hardly ever see it at RenFaires. Both practical netting (fishnets) and decorative netting (hairnets) date back to the very early centuries AD if not earlier. Decorative netting, lined with cloth, is something you see quite a bit in women's cauls (hat worn on the back of the head).
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Re: No one's going to beat me up if
Sat, February 23, 2008 - 11:37 AMhmmm... and making fishnets would fit in well with the new RPFS town of Deptford...
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