It's finally Friday, the weekend is beckoning (and it's promising to be a nice one, with a local boardgaming event and possibly also a round of going bouldering with friends), my Windows update problems might finally be fixed, and the warp yarn for the next batch of cloth is almost finished, making the weaving of the sail cloth something bound to happen very soon.

In other news, Current Archaeology is holding a bake-off competition for archaeological baking (and even if you don't plan to participate, the thing is worth a look for the previously done stuff, which is really awesome).

More food stuff? Gillian has written about food in fiction.

If you didn't get as much nice sunny weather as we did in the last days and you are feeling melancholy about it now, Ask the Past has a cure for that. Or, well, at least suggestions. From 1303.

Brogues and Shoes has a picture series about making a leather bottle.

And finally, again on the topic of spinning and weaving, there's been a two-part column in Knitty about weaving with singles - part one and part two.

That's it for today (still too many tabs open, but it's a little better now.) Have a nice weekend, everybody!