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Posted by Erin on November 14, 2006, 9:46 am
Please? :-)
Greetings from dark and rainy western Sweden! I've posted this request
to several textile arts type newsgroups, so I apologize to those of you
who see it more than once.
I live in a small town (pop. c. 9300) and 2007 is Ulricehamn's 700 year
anniversary. We don't know exactly when the town was founded (and there
are traces of much earlier settlements) but we know from archival
sources that Ulricehamn dates to at least the 14th century.
In honor of our anniversary I will make "medieval" the theme for my
spring art quilt exhibit, although not necessarily just the 14th
century. I'll have to make new garb since I am rather stouter now
(Hey! some of it is muscles!!!) than when I was in the SCA in the
U.S.A. Fortunately, I already have fabric in my stash for making a
wool gown and linen underdress. You can see my felt hat in my live
journal avatar pic.
In fact I would LOVE any and all input, especially from other
historical costuming/textile art type people, as to interesting ways to
develop the theme.
Thanks in advance!!!
Erin
arkiv2001 at yahoo.com or
museumbitch at yahoo.com
http://arkivarie.livejournal.com/
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Posted by Georg on November 14, 2006, 10:24 am
Erin wrote:
> I live in a small town (pop. c. 9300) and 2007 is Ulricehamn's 700 year
> anniversary. We don't know exactly when the town was founded (and there
> are traces of much earlier settlements) but we know from archival
> sources that Ulricehamn dates to at least the 14th century.
>
> In honor of our anniversary I will make "medieval" the theme for my
> spring art quilt exhibit, although not necessarily just the 14th
> century.
The only medieval quilt from Sweden of which I am aware is an applique
woolen quilt.
http://www.historiska.se/press/press/pressbild/press-bild_intarsia.html
(but this may not be Swedish and I could be mis-membering) I have more
and better pics of the upper left quilt which is the original. They are
saved on my hard drive and I can email them to you.
There is also a style of medieval quilting that involves trapunto
(stuffing in some areas between two layers of fabric). Modern trapunto
means extra stuffing and the background is uniformly stuffed with a
batting, but medieval trapunto is more like ... oh the word evades me.
But it's stuffing only in parts, sometimes done by sewing yarn through
channels and sometimes by parting warp and weft to stuff. The example
that I have done is illustrated and explained in detail here:
http://georgresearch.blogspot.com/2005/04/ruriks-ducal-scroll-or-1390-quilt.html
I am hopeful that I will get to make another one soon. But this may
inspire you as well. This quilt was 100% linen with wool batting.
> I'll have to make new garb since I am rather stouter now
> (Hey! some of it is muscles!!!) than when I was in the SCA in the
> U.S.A. Fortunately, I already have fabric in my stash for making a
> wool gown and linen underdress. You can see my felt hat in my live
> journal avatar pic.
Isn't there SCA in Sweden too? Or just not convenient to you? There is a
Medieval Quilting Yahoo group, to which I also belong. Um, yeah, I'm SCA
too.
-georg
ska
THL George Anne
Ęthelmearc
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Posted by Erin on November 14, 2006, 11:29 am
Georg skrev:
> The only medieval quilt from Sweden of which I am aware is an applique
> woolen quilt.
> http://www.historiska.se/press/press/pressbild/press-bild_intarsia.html
> (but this may not be Swedish and I could be mis-membering)
Thanks for the link!!! Yes, it is Swedish.
I have more
> and better pics of the upper left quilt which is the original. They are
> saved on my hard drive and I can email them to you.
Yes, please do!
> There is also a style of medieval quilting that involves trapunto
> (stuffing in some areas between two layers of fabric).
I am more taking medieval as my source of inspiration than necessarily
trying to make authentic reproductions. I would like to celebrate our
town's history among other things. For example, I've made art quilts of
local historic sites, etc. Since I "ain't from these here parts," in
some ways I have a greater appreciation for Ulricehamn's local history.
Typically, people don't take their own local history so seriously since
it is always there in the background. Harri has commented many times
that he never thought about various local landmarks until I asked him
about them! :-)
> Isn't there SCA in Sweden too? Or just not convenient to you?
Not convenient to me, unfortunately.
Our kommun (like a county in the U.S.) is holding some events but the
people involved are *very* disorganized. On the other hand I belong to
an artist's group that puts-on a 3-day art event every spring. Our
event is very well-organized (because we work our backsides off!) and I
would love to have some suggestions for things we can do as individual
artists and/or as a group that would help celebrate our anniversary.
Thanks for your reply; I will definitely read your research!
Erin
museumbitch at yahoo.com
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Posted by Georg on November 14, 2006, 1:36 pm
Erin wrote:
>
> I am more taking medieval as my source of inspiration than necessarily
> trying to make authentic reproductions. I would like to celebrate our
> town's history among other things. For example, I've made art quilts of
> local historic sites, etc. Since I "ain't from these here parts," in
> some ways I have a greater appreciation for Ulricehamn's local history.
> Typically, people don't take their own local history so seriously since
> it is always there in the background. Harri has commented many times
> that he never thought about various local landmarks until I asked him
> about them! :-)
Isn't it ever thus? I would not expect you to want to replicate
medieval quilts, or even do anything in the "medieval style," but it's a
good place to start. Knowing where we have been is a wonderful jump off
point.
Most places have heraldic animals associated... is there a coat of arms
or animal associated with Ulricehamn? Perhaps creating a round medallion
of it on countercharged cloth would work, as the Swedish quilt is.
The joy of the Tristan and Isolde quilts is that they tell a pictoral
story. Is there a story in the founding of the town? Or particular land
marks? Or just scenes that you may want to do either in the round
medalion, or in the pictoral style?
Let me see, what other examples do I have lying about...
Quilted hats:
http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Textiles/mamluk_hats.html
Quilted doublet (later than your time aimed for but within SCA period)
http://s10.photobucket.com/albums/a127/ClaredeCrecy/
A Quilted cushion that Jane would envy:
http://www.chiantimusei.it/cgi-bin/en/pub_det_lun.cgi?id=35
Another SCA article on the Tristan and Isolde quilts and trapunto
technique and materials:
http://home.earthlink.net/~chrislaning/Tristan.pdf
Hope this helps,
-georg
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Posted by Erin on November 15, 2006, 4:06 pm
Georg skrev:
> Most places have heraldic animals associated... is there a coat of arms
> or animal associated with Ulricehamn? Perhaps creating a round medallion
> of it on countercharged cloth would work, as the Swedish quilt is.
If you go to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:V%C3%A4sterg%C3%B6tland_coat_of_arms.png
you can see the provincial coat of arms (county is NOT a good
translation of land, btw) Blazon: "Per bend sinister Sable and Or, a
Lion rampant counterchanged langued and armed Gules between two Mullets
Argent in the Sable field."
At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ulricehamn_City_Arms.png you can
see a (rather bad) image of Ulricehamns coat of arms. I used it as
inspiration for an Art Quilt I made several years ago for the annual
Ulricehamn's Picture Contest.
V=E4sterg=F6tland was an ancient Swedish kingdom where most of the events
in Jan Guillou's Crusades Trilogy take place. It certainly won't hurt
to work-in a bit of "Arn feeling" into my exhibit!
Erin
p=2Es.
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Jerusalem-Crusades-Trilogy/dp/0752848372/sr=3D8-=
2/qid=3D1163624562/ref=3Dpd_bbs_sr_2/002-0977659-7267253?ie=3DUTF8&s=3Dbooks
If you haven't read the Trilogy, I would definitely recommend it!!!
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