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This is a great project. I look forward to the results. Thanks for letting us know.
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That lozenge pattern element is not a photograph, but a scan. So it should be to scale. But I pinned...
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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.



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Panth (website) on Wednesday, 26 February 2014 18:29

Thank you for the extra details!

Thank you for the extra details!
Cathy Raymond (website) on Thursday, 27 February 2014 05:11

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

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