Thanks Jenn!

I suppose the problem is they stopped dismembering corpses after the medieval period. If only they had continued.

This reminds me of when my daughter was at infants and had to choose a letter of the alphabet and draw an animal that began with it.
She drew a voose.
I asked her what a voose was.
‘It’s like a moose only it begins with V.’

The penny has only just dropped that ‘Weald’ meant forest, like Wald in German and of course wold.

Indeed!

Just as well we do.

I am totally up for cheese for Mother’s Day but if you’re a cheese head it’s hardly going to be mozzarella 😮

Yes, two loops instead of one so a greater volume of thread running along the edge.

Now it’s just a question of seeing if I can get the right effect with stitches the right length and amplitude. Turns out it’s really simple to do once you know how. 🫤
I will probably experiment with stitching on a plait at some point too.

There are a couple of early shirts in Janet Arnold with a twist or plait sewn along the edge which is a possibility but doesn’t look quite the same. I have tried blanket stitch and it takes forever and doesn’t look right. So now I am trying a more complex stitch which will be quicker.

#16thc blackworked linens often show a thick black edging like in this #Holbein sketch of Thomas Vaux. So it’s a question of how they did the edging: couched cord? Blanket stitch very close together? Or another stitch altogether?

Thank you!

Yes, it’s from Elizabethan Stitches. Tent stitch is perfectly good, I don’t know why anyone would feel the need to torture themselves with other stitches, lol.