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What I Knit While I Was Sick

on April 13, 2022

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Links to Some of My Work in Early Textiles

This is a figure from my thesis, the link to it is below. If you are looking for reading lists on the topic of prehistoric and early historic textiles of the Southeast, there are references in each of the following. Mississippian Textiles at Beckum Village (1CK24), Clarke County, Alabama. M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (2006). This is a 12.5MB file. “Public Archaeology: Balancing a Need for Clothed Museum Figures with a Limited Archaeological Record.” Seventy-fourth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2010. The PDF version of this poster presentation contains a large image of the physical poster. Poster presentations are a tradition at archaeology conferences. My old anthropological textile website is still up. Although it has not been updated in years, it may contain interesting information.

Distaffs Are Growing In My Yard

I found a terrifically useful bush growing in my yard. It was a weed, now it provides pre-shaped wood for tools. When I find a bush that has grown enough to be shaped into a distaff, about three or four feet tall, I cut it well below the area that I think will be the bottom of my distaff. Here is an example that I hope will also provide enough information for readers to identify the type of plant. Now I remove all of the leaves and stems that I don't want, creating a rough shape of the distaff that i want. I leave everything longer than needed so I can make the final decisions as the branch gets closer to being a distaff. My tools are simple, scissors, a handsaw with a fine blade, and the wooden thing at the top is a wood carving knife that has a neat cap and leather strap (it will be more visible later). I have left more stems on the main distaff branch than I think I will want in the end, but it is better to leave them on. At this point I scrape of all of the bark and the

From 2014, the Spanos Lazy Kate

I wrote and posted this article on the Greater Birmingham Fiber Guild blog in September 2014. I still like this project and you never know what will happen to a group blog so I'm saving most of that post here. So, from 2014... Text and photos by Mary Spanos One of the unfortunate things about equipment being in storage rather than being loved and cared for in someone's home is that parts can go missing. The guild wheel had only one bobbin and no lazy kate. When I ordered two new bobbins I could have ordered a new lazy kate, too, but the cost of the bobbins and anything else that would be purchased would be passed onto the lucky person who would buy the wheel, and I didn't want to make the decision of what type of kate they would want. There are a lot of very different styles of kates available these days and I didn't want to make that choice for the new owner. But, the new owner would need something to use as a lazy kate until they found the kate of their dreams, so

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