Just Keep Stitching
It is going to take a long time to finish, and longer because I’m doing it alone, have little room for the frame in our apartment, and have a family to sew garm...
Category: History
The Public: Not Quite the Enemy
Ah, the public. We’re not really much without them—we need an audience, don’t we? Living history practitioners/costumed interpreters/re-enactors are all looking...
What Table Manners?
When you think of 18th century dining, which image comes to mind, tea on the left, or the sea captains to the right? While I did not carouse with sea captains t...
Mourning Embroideries
As a rule, I dislike samplers. Sacrilege, I know, but the rows of letters and numbers and tidy stitches seem to me like running in place, instead of running to ...
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