Ideas for Hrim Schola

[bunnyjadwiga]

I want to go to Hrim Schola this year. I want to teach at Hrim Schola. I have no idea what to teach. I'm no fiber geek, and I've already taught sauces, and medieval scents, and medieval gardens there, so I figure most of the people who go to Hrim Schola have seen those.
Ideas for an herb-, food-, and ceremony- geek to teach at a fiber-geek event?

Comments

[gina-gwynne.livejournal.com]

Raising and preparing your own flax?

Medieval gardens and dying?

[lady-guenievre.livejournal.com]

What she said on dying - seems like the perfect intersection between herbs and fiber...

[amaebi.livejournal.com]

Yup, dyes. You can use your mordant humour.

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

Ouch.

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Except that I left it to Anne Liese to learn dyeing and teach me... and she did, but not enough so I feel comfortable teaching fabric dyeing; and now she's unable to do anywhere near as much teaching as she did.

[amazon-42.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know how to raise and prepare flax, myself. I know how to grow a sheep to make yarn, so to speak. But to make it from a plant...

Or maybe an Origins of Cotton? I really got whomped by my African History prof for thinking cotton had European origins!

[jdulac.livejournal.com]

ideas of cleanliness. Includes lots of references to linen. Check out
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Cleanliness-Changing-Attitudes-Publications/dp/0521342481/sr=8-11/qid=1169149557/ref=sr_1_11/104-1353101-1355929?ie=UTF8&s=books

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

cultivation of dye plants?
herbs that can be used as dyes?

[hakerh.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like the idea of a "Dyer's garden" class. (If you ever get a chance to come up this way, I can show you around Plimoth Plantation - they've got a garden planted according to the plants' respective humor-affecting qualities.)

[gina-gwynne.livejournal.com]

Growing to dye!!!

Love the acorn in the arms. ;)

[hakerh.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

[stringlady.livejournal.com]

Ceremony... she says...

Hand washing - which I know you know about, and which includes - wait for this - towels. Table settings, which require table linens. It's all very well to make textiles - people have to know how to use them! (Fabric - it's not just for clothing!)

If I ever start weaving again, really, I want to make table linens, as that's what I always did mundanely, but I don't know offhand size, precise use, etc. (I have a foggy memory of reading about something that was sort of a coss between a modern placemat and a modern napkin. I have no idea where. Was I hallucinating, or is this something I should be looking into?)

I'm thinking of teaching a distaff spinning course, but I'm not sure I'll be ready. Or that anyone wants it... Or that if anyone does, I can teach more than a couple of people. Maybe just a lecture and demo? We know I do that all too annoyingly well... Maybe both? Now I'm really in over my head!

[bunnyjadwiga.livejournal.com]

Good Ideas. I'm still working on something like this, but not by Hrim Schola.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Hmmm -- since I'm not planning to go to Gulf Wars this year, I actually could go to Hrim Schola... must ponder this.

The dyeing class and/or the notions of cleanliness class sound interesting.