New: Draft schedule!
The tenth annual FFF will be held Nov 17-19 in Lamar, PA.
The Many Faces of Couching (Medievaldom's Most Important Embroidery Stitch)
Jaqueline de Molieres
Description: The embroidery stitch called "couching" can be found in various forms from early Anglo-Saxon times right through to the Renaissance. Bring your embroidery supplies and we will stitch our way through the Middle Ages, learning the basic couching stitch and then explore it's other faces: laidwork (Bayeaux), underside couching, or nue, and whatever else we can do in this one-hour class.
One hour
Limits: all levels of experience ok
Fees: none
Needs: Bring basic embroidery supplies - piece of linen, hoop, needles, floss, scissors, marking tool (pencil, pen). I will have extra supplies for those who are without.
Double hole rigid heddle weaving
Gudrun Thorsteinnsdottir
Tape looms were used across Europe in the Middle Ages to make narrow bands to fasten or ornament clothing. Northern Scandinavia developed an unusual tape loom with two sets of holes that one could use for fancier patterns that would normally have required a much wider loom. The extra holes are used for the pattern threads as a supplemental warp in a warp faced woven band. This makes the warping super easy. If you plan to take the class, you will enjoy watching Paivi's video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GbJHJUOGAM We will briefly explore, hands on, these unusual tape looms. Participants would need to have a belt on or something around their waists to fasten the other end of the warp to.
Basic Knitting
Lady Antoinette deLorraine
You will learn the basics including how to knit, purl, and basic abbreviations on a pattern. A short history of knitting will also be included.
One hour.
Limit 5.
No fee.
Snartemo Patterning
Viscountess Rosalind Ashworthe
This is an intermediate level tablet weaving class, breaking down the Snartemo technique (4 color TW with pattern floats). We will be doing some hands on weaving with pre-threaded cards, and a pattern, then break down the technique to learn how to pattern yourself.
Fee: $2, all materials provided
Limit 6
Time: 2 hours
Tablet-Weaving Round Table
Viscountess Rosalind Ashworthe
Come talk about tablet weaving with weavers of all experience levels. Phiala will bring some new information on tablet weaving tools; please bring your own new discoveries or questions.
Fee: none
Limit: none
Time: 1 hour
Beginning sprang
Mistress Phiala O'Ceallaigh
Hands-on introduction to a very old fiber art.
Fee: none
Limit: five
Time: 1 hour
Double cloth sprang
Mistress Phiala O'Ceallaigh
Two layers at once. It's like magic that ties your fingers into knots.
Fee: none
Limit: five
Time: 1 hour
The Warp Weighted Loom
Mistress Brienna Llewellyn Lindsay
Ever wonder how a warp-weighted loom works? Well, Come and find out. I will have 2 WWLs on hand. A small one using a Leclerc Tapestry Loom set up as tabby, and a large one set up with a twill. We will discuss history, advantages/disadvantages, set-up, problems and operation.
Fee: none
Limit: none
Time: 1 hour
Fingerloop Braid parking trick
Master Bedwyr Danwyn
Ever had to pee while fingerloop braiding? Or wish to set the project aside for a while? Let Bedywr show you some simple tricks to allow you to easily set your project aside without harming your pattern.
Fee: none
Limit: none
Time: 1 hour
Overview of Slavic Embroidery
Lady Rowan L'Crotha
This lecture class will look at the form, function, colors, cultural influences and design motifs of Slavic Embroidery.
Fee: TBA
Limit: TBA
Time: 1 hour
16th C. Thrum Cap Investigations: Knitted or Felted????
Mistress Rhiannon y Bwa
Thrum caps, worn by ordinary sailors, workmen and pirates starting by the 16th C. look like crazy wool wigs. But they shed rain and snow and are very warm and practical. Thrum caps may have had either a felted or fulled wool base and thrummed (yarn or fleece?) pile on the outside. Very few (none?) survive from the 16th C. Class will discuss techniques and research with lots and lots of examples. Bring pen and camera.
Fee: $2 for handout
Limit: None
Time: 1 hour
Hitting the Right Gauge: Recreating an extant knitted object
Mistress Rhiannon y Bwa
Many re-creations of existing knitted objects are actually way too 'coarse' a gauge, they should be finer. Accurate re-creation becomes even more difficult when the original knitted object has been fulled until the stitches can be barely counted. Teacher provides solutions to obtaining the original knitted gauge using either handspun yarn or 'frogged' yarn from commercial used wool sweaters. Many examples, including re-created purse and hats from Gunnister Man find, as well as Tudor flat caps. Bring pen and camera.
Fee: $2 for handout (duplicate of Thrummed cap handout)
Limit: None
Time: 1 hour
Wait a Sec! Where Did You Find That Site?
THLady Fiadnata o Gleann Alainn
Let's sit down and discuss our favorite online resources and resource lists. I can't promise that the sites we'll talk about will all be new to you, but you will probably find a few new gems, as well as being reminded of some old friends you haven't visited in a long time.
Fee: None
Limit: None
Time: 1 hour
Beginning tablet weaving
Aibell ingen Dairmata
Learn the basics of tablet weaving with practice threading and weaving a simple threaded in pattern. I am bringing 8 looms to use.
Fee: $25 if you keep the loom, free otherwise
Limit: 8
1 hour
Laziness as a Guiding Principle: Drafting Patterns for 3/1 Twill
Herveus d'Ormonde
Learn a technique for drafting patterns and deriving the turning draft that takes into account minimizing gratuitous complexity. This is a
paper and pencil class. You should go away with a measure of understanding how 3/1 twill works and how it relates to 3/1 repp (more commonly called double-turn double-face).
Fee: none
Limit: none
1 hour
Lucette for Dummies
Lady Genevotte Nau d'Anjou
A beginner class in using the Lucette. A brief history and single strand and double strand cording.
Fee: $5 for handouts
Limit: none
1 hour
The Woof of War
Conrad Kienast
A look at a Viking poem using weaving as a metaphor for war.
Fee: none
Limit: none
1 hour
Something about period fabrics
Maria P.
TBA
1 hour
Naalbinding
Sigrid Briansdotter
TBA
1 hour
Storytelling
Egill
TBA
1 hour
Body mechanics for fighters and fencers
Don Anias
TBA