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I need a grey dye and someone suggested black beans. When I first pulled the material out, it was a pretty blue. As it dried, it turned grey. I presoaked my maternal in a rusted cast iron pot full of water for a day or two before dying.

I have found the best combing happens with a fleece that has very little to no lanolin left. You can always oil it to help with the spinning. With fleeces that are still a little sticky or cotted I flick the locks first before either combing or carding. Time consuming but it means only one pass to have a very smooth prep with no junk, tangles, or short bits. For me it really depends on the fleece. I have had fleeces that I could comb open the locks with just one pass back and forth, and that I could sit and comb a dozen sets of locks before I got tired. Others were so challenging that I gave up. With a really big fleece like yours though, unless I'm prepping for many smaller projects, it's hard to feel like the time sink of combing is worth it. Anyway -- I loved the video. :)

What a magic find! Can't wait to see more of your journey in getting her up and running again.

What a find! 🤩

it's so cool to watch your whole research process!

Oh man that manual! What a treasure that is!

I've seen worse come back to life. ❤️

Ok, now I am curious: how many meters of thread you needed to hav enough fabric for a tunic?

now i'm just going through a backlog of your videos, hope that's okay! i find most human-sized clothing intimidating these days, simply because of the amount of fabric needed to make a single garment. i'm always worried i'm going to run out of material, and i feel like i never have enough cheap fabric to create proper mock-ups anymore. i mostly sew for dolls these days, and i'm never worried about running out of fabric for them!

i watched this whole playlist today! really very enjoyable. i'm thinking of starting a medieval outfit project very similar to this some time soon, and it's very cool to see someone else's process!

If your fiber is wool...you can Full it and it will not fray. You will in fact have to pick a strand loose

The sleeves seem a bit tight on version 2...and as for the gores...my experience is to start at the hem, and undo those side seams up to the point where it is comfy around your chest

OK...A QUICK WAY TO SPREAD YOUR WARP AFTER TIEING ON: Take that piece of scrap yarn. Shed A, pass it thru. Do Not Beat. Shed B, pass it thru. Do Not Beat. Shed A, pass it thru. Beat, Beat, Beat! In most cases, these three shots will completely spread your warp, ready for weaving. Hope you see this before your next project!

You are such a good tailor. I used to make Iron Age clothes. I had my own sheep and processed the wool from fleece to fabric. What fun.

Omg! You have SO much patience ! That is really a tedious task! You and all weavers are truly artisans !

Purple onion dyeing gives a oliveisch green in one step

When can we see the finished tunic? I love the green yarn you died. Really beautiful color.

what beautiful medieval music and what talented weaving skills

Cool!

Beautiful fabric, nice variations. I’m a weaver, but I’m not as patient with large projects. I really must label my stuff better

Repetitive stress injuries are no joke! I love how you really give the sense of how long the processes are. In my opinion it is really important for people to see this. If you have a garden you can use the waste wool as mulch.

Don’t know why you popped up in my vid feed, but glad you did. I appreciate you taking the time to document the progression of your large and bold projects. I’m really glad you went for it and showed your glorious orange silk shirt off with all your costume gear. Very impressive and becoming. Seeing your costumes reminded me of L.E. Meyer’s Jacky Faber series. I listened to the audio of all of them recently. If you don’t know the series it’s about an orphan girl in a gang of pick pocket and thieves in 19th century London. Jacky longs to go to sea and see the world and she manages to get taken on a ship disguised as a boy and many adventures ensue. The audio includes many delightful sea shanties and ballads sung and accompanied by Jacky on fiddle and pipe, skills she adds to her quiver as she makes her way through life. It might serve as good listening during all that sewing and weaving.

You have convinced me that patching things together is the answer. Also, to be less fussy about buying fabric.

Thanks for recording this Adrian. It's really interesting to see the real time scale of such a massive project. I really like the term that Marce ( h@eybrownberry) used normalise long term making. I keep seeing people whip up a sweater in a week and it takes me months. I already have arthritis in my thumb joints and hips. I don't want to keep trying to perpete this nonsense. Making by hand takes time abd that's okay. I am definitely going to be documenting my progress in my crafting journal. I have just started to learn how to spin, so this is really interesting to me. My kid is really interested in spinning too. We were on holiday and they found a lot of fleece stuck to the fence. They gathered it all up and washed it. What is a small investment they can make to give it a go. We looked at carding combs snd they are £50-60 even second hand. Is there a lower price option they can try?

I'd love to see more dyeing.

That is a Faux French Seam.

Last Oct I accepted a job, processing 2 Jacob fleeces, the yarn from which was to be a Christmas present. Fortunately she wanted a rustic yarn, which ended up varying from almost white to almost black. (I got my picker after that job. Would have been considerably faster). I’m always surprised by the ‘loss’ in washing, picking, carding. About half for these Jacobs. Your singles look lovely! Sorry about the wrist pain. Try clamping one comb?? Or a hackle? I know, more fiber toys…. Love your dog.

Thank you for another enjoyable video. I’m looking forward to the next episode.

😮😮 the swing picker looks like a torture device. Edit: lol i commented this right before you said the same thing. What a cool tool

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Have you ever read Silas manner?

Nice, but it is an awful lot of work to get started. Sorry, but lovely fr you

Great work! I love the dagging. I should really make one of these. I tried drafting my own a few years ago and it just didnt fit my melon head very well. 😅

Wonder what uses the "tail" may have been. Like your handwarmers, did you make them(starting at thumb?) ? The hood looks practical and well as nice !

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Well done! The hand dyed lining contrasted beautifully with the wool . Nice choice for escutcheon trim ( what a tongue twister word😹) Im inspired to make a Jersey knit or a quilted version for non renfair wear maybe 😸

I've read that traditionally, in Europe, Lincoln green was produced by dyeing with weld (yellow) then woad (blue). I've also seen a lovely apple green produced with privet berries. I haven't yet tried that myself but have gathered berries and frozen them for later use. I've done a little indigo dyeing before, and avocado and onion skins. Different mordants will give different shades of colour, though I think indigo doesn't need mordanting.

Great video! I am information gathering mode and this video was very helpful! This is all new to me, but since building our off grid home and cultivating a permaculture garden, it has inevitably led to wondering if we could grow flax or obtain wool to spin our own yarn and ultimately begin making our own fabric and clothing! It seems to be such an enormous undertaking, but would be so incredibly satisfying to accomplish! Part of the journey to true self-sufficiency.

Great video.

Hey there! What's that stitch that you do in orange/red to sign off your weaving? I'm just learning weaving right now and haven't seen it before!

As a spinner and someone trying to learn weaving, thank you for the details of yarn size, heddle size etc….

Very cool! You are so talented!

I enjoyed watching you warp and weave, nice choice in music too. I also have projects that have been going on for years. By the way my favorite waistcoat was the plaid one with pink/red;. did you make that?

This was lovely to watch. I keep telling myself that I don't need another craft hobby. Especially as looms take up so much space. I love the colour and how your fabric turned out. I absolutely love the black waistcoat you wore at the start and a couple of points in the middle.

Did you end up finishing it?

Me: *rage at weaving being annoying* *puts it to the side* This video: *pops up in my feed* *is inspiring* Me: *looks over at loom* Goddamnit.

I'm brimming with admiration, so coooooool

Fun project. Lovely finishes!

Looks comfortable!