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Katrin How on earth did they do it?
27. März 2024
Ah, that's good to know! I might have a look around just out of curiosity. I've since learned that w...
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...though not entirely easy. I've been able to get my hands on a few strands over the years for Geor...
Katrin Hieroglyphs.
23. Februar 2024
Yes, that would sort of fit that aspect - but you can also go from bits of woods to sticks if you ar...
Bruce Hieroglyphs.
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Harma Spring is Coming.
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Textile Presentation at the SFDAS

The Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan (SFDAS) is starting a cycle of hybrid lectures and conferences. The first event is organised on Thursday 21st of March, at 14.00 (Cairo time) / 13.00 (CET), and it is about textiles:

The sensory archaeology of garments. New approaches to the body in ancient Sudan and Nubia
Speaker is Elsa Yvanez, who is an associate professor at the Centre for Textile Research at the Uni of Copenhagen. 
Date of the presentation is March 21, 14:00 (Cairo time) / 13:00 (CET).

You can either go there in person to the IFAO, Mounira Palace or join online on the IFAO YouTube channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@institutfrancaisdarcheolog5642/featured 

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Presentation Video (in German)

A good while ago, I had a lovely trip to Vienna, where I gave a presentation which was also streamed online and recorded. So once I returned home, I put "check out and link to recording" on my to-do-list. 

And then, as things go, it took a while for it to be processed and uploaded, and in the meantime my to-do-list did some growing... so the item wandered ever further down the list. There's a stack of items in that part, things I'd like to do or check out but that are neither urgent nor really important, and they sit there waiting, patiently, for their day to come.

Once in a while, I scroll down the list to that half-forgotten part, and sometimes I drag an item back up to the top... and then sometimes-sometimes, I actually deal with it. 

In this case, here you are, the presentation I gave in Vienna:

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I hope you enjoy it! 

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Planning, Writing, Drinking Tea.

Things going on here today? The usual day-to-day boring stuff. Trying to figure out some dates for conferences, travel, holidays, and online courses for the next months. Packing up stuff ordered in the shop to get it sent out. Writing for the presentation in Syke about the Bronze Age garments reconstruction.

It's a lot of fun to re-visit all the stages of production, and the images taken. I'm also slowly getting to the point where I have something like a plan on how to present the various individual pieces, and where and how to give the basic information for those in the audience who are not textile specialists. That is one of the challenges when doing a presentation for a completely unknown audience - you want to give enough basic explanations on what you are talking about so that everybody can follow, but it can't be too long or too elaborate, and you don't want to bore the part of the audience who already knows about it. For instance, I can't assume that everybody will know how weaving works in general, or on a warp-weighted loom specifically - so I have to explain this, because some understanding of the loom and the process are necessary to understand one of the characteristics of the large textile pieces: the weft crossings where several weavers worked together. Fortunately I also made the belt, and I have a video and pictures of that, so I can explain the basics here and then go on to the larger fabric, and the loom. 

Getting these presentations done takes quite a bit of time, especially as the ideas need to get sorted out, the sequence has to be found, and everything needs a day or two inbetween to settle in my head and organise itself. Good thing there's still a few days left before I have to finish!

I'm also trying to figure out if now is a good time to treat the peach tree against its curly leaf syndrome, or if it would be better to wait another one or two days. I find this always hard to tell. Last year I didn't catch the correct point in time, and there were lots of very, very curly leaves. There were still some peaches, but I can't say if the number of them had something to do with the tree not doing well, or the weather, or something else.

All this, of course, fueled by tea. Because everything is better with tea. Except when it's better with coffee... which is also being consumed. Why stick to one source of motivational caffeinated hot drink, after all, if you can have two?

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Bronze Age Garments - Presentation

You remember the Bronze Age garment reconstructions that I made, based on the finds from Egtved and Trindhøj? Well, I'm utterly delighted that they are very well received by the public at the museum in Syke - so well that there's a demand to hear more about it, and thus I will be travelling up North to give a little presentation on how they were made.

That is taking place on February 23, starting at 18:30, in the Forum Gesseler Goldhort in Syke... 

If you're interested and in the area, you can reserve your place here!

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I'm Back! For a While.

Here I am back again, for a few days, before the Week of Crazy will throw its shadow over my life. The Week of Crazy, also known as the European Textile Forum... 

For now, though, let me tell you that I had a wonderful time in Lübeck. It's really lovely to travel again, and to have actual physical presences when giving a presentation instead of just a camera. Though there was a camera, too, an in case you've missed it but would like to see what I did there, here's the presentation on Youtube:


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The sound quality and the video quality are, unfortunately, not the very best - but at least it's there, and available, and I hope you will be able to hear all my (more or less bad) jokes.

I can also fully recommend the exhibition, which has some really spectacular items, among them a belt made from sea silk... 

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Off To Shenanigans!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that when things come to happen, they do it in masses.

Ahead of me are three-and-a-half very full weeks, where I'm mostly away from home, doing things - giving workshops, holding presentations, doing museum inventory work, and, to balance out the work, having a few days off with the Most Patient of All Husbands inbetween. (I'm quite sure they will be needed...)

It's wonderful and exhilarating to be off and about and among people once more, though I admit I'm also a little anxious about this. There's still a pandemic happening, even though it is getting easier to ignore it all the time. I have masks, though (really well-fitting for a change, I'm quite amazed) and have just tested negative (something the Spinntreffen organisers were asking for, to self-test before going there), and I hope that I will have a sufficiently effective combination of being sensible and being lucky.

At the moment, I'm in the last bits of prep for the Spinntreffen of the Handspinngilde this weekend, and that means packing the car, printing out lists, and finishing putting together the workshop tools and materials. So once this post is done, I will hop out into the garden and cut some willow and hazel rods to serve as bow looms.

If you're interested in my presentation for the Hansemuseum Lübeck and the FGHO, it will be streamed live on YouTube on October 11, starting at 18:00. There's also still tickets available for those of you who prefer to be right in the room with me in Lübeck.

I will be back on the blog on October 24, when all my away missions are done and I'm back home - and I hope you will have a good time until then!

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JUNI
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Courtauld Institute - Livery Badge and Legal Tender, Online Presentation

If you're looking for something to do tomorrow, the Courtauld Institute offers an online-accessible presentation about livery badges and legal tender in Late Medieval England. You have to register to get the zoom link (it's free), and you can do that until 30 minutes before the beginning, which is tomorrow, June 22, at 17:00 British time. 

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