back in Milan, feeling refreshed
Sep. 13th, 2009 11:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaI just spent five days living in an Iron-Age hut whilst attending the Textile Forum, and loved every minute of it! I didn't even mind being without internet for that time. Met many delightful people, including one SCA couple who flew over from the US just for this conference.
I need to do a proper post comparing and contrasting the geology and textile conferences, later. Photos also need to follow, later. As do blog posts on the other geology field trips I've not yet written about.
short version:
* the textile forum combined the very best parts of science conferences with some of the nicest parts of SCA weekend events.
* I learned the "Finnish Stitch" in nalbinding, from a lady from Finland.
* I now own a hand-made iron needle which is even smaller than the tiny quilting needles I normally sew with. It is wonderful!
* bought some lovely dark wool yarn which was died with indigo and iron and I forget what else to make it so blue it is nearly black
* There are people doing some amazing textile research these days!
* It is nice staying in a working history park and being able to make use of the straw mattresses & sheepskins for bedding, and the nice pottery bowls for meal times, particularily when one is flying a budget airlines (read only one checked bag < 15 kg) and one's camping gear is on a ship, somewhere.
If you've posted anything on LiveJournal or Facebook in the past week that I ought to know about, you might want to call my attention to it, as I don't know when I'll have time to go back and read things from between when I left Scotland and now.
I need to do a proper post comparing and contrasting the geology and textile conferences, later. Photos also need to follow, later. As do blog posts on the other geology field trips I've not yet written about.
short version:
* the textile forum combined the very best parts of science conferences with some of the nicest parts of SCA weekend events.
* I learned the "Finnish Stitch" in nalbinding, from a lady from Finland.
* I now own a hand-made iron needle which is even smaller than the tiny quilting needles I normally sew with. It is wonderful!
* bought some lovely dark wool yarn which was died with indigo and iron and I forget what else to make it so blue it is nearly black
* There are people doing some amazing textile research these days!
* It is nice staying in a working history park and being able to make use of the straw mattresses & sheepskins for bedding, and the nice pottery bowls for meal times, particularily when one is flying a budget airlines (read only one checked bag < 15 kg) and one's camping gear is on a ship, somewhere.
If you've posted anything on LiveJournal or Facebook in the past week that I ought to know about, you might want to call my attention to it, as I don't know when I'll have time to go back and read things from between when I left Scotland and now.
