Eleanor Hall's blog

Capo Ferro Lesson Plan 

Here is an outline of our class on Capo Ferro from last week, for anyone interested I will link in a copy with a description of all the different elements once I finish typing it up.

See the previous post about this project HERE

 The project has been ongoing, it's just that the little bits that I have been working on haven't been very interesting.

Based on Titziano Vecellio (Titian)'s Portrait of a Lady in White, 1553, Venice

This is the start of a project blog that has been a long time coming!

About two years ago I managed to buy about 7 metres of a cream coloured silk satin from a bridal dressmaker who was selling the business, I really liked the silk as it's a very rich shade of cream and based on this I decided it needed to be made into a dress worthy of the material.

After some debate I decided on a dress based on Titziano Vecellio (Titian)'s Portrait of a Lady in White, 1553, Venice

Early experiments in brocaded tablet weaving part II:

Pattern 85 from  Anna Neuper's Modelbuch.

*Update*

I added a photo of the second repeat so you can see what it's supposed to be like.

9 tablets, 20 row repeat.

About an hour of weaving - I actually prefer the wider bands, I just hate cutting out the cards.

After putting up the last band I managed to get a thicker jap thread from The Ribbon Rose

Early experiments in brocaded tablet weaving:

Pattern 85 from  Anna Neuper's Modelbuch.

9 tablets, 20 row repeat.

about 1.5 hours of weaving, I was on a voice call to someone so I was working fairly slowly.

Here you can get an idea of the pattern as it came out and the pattern as given in the book.

It was a small gathering this week.

Lord Sebastian has recently joined us from Thamesreach and although his gear is still in transit from far off places he came long and was introduced to Meyer's rapier style.

Footwork and basic positions were covered and we ran through the basic basic attacks and defences, though high, low and medium variations of each and then went through an exercise that Eleanor and William had been reviewing the previous week.

Ludwig, Eleanor and Eloise took their rapier gear along with them to the St Sebastian's event on the weekend and did a bit of training.  Eleanor also found the pile of fibreglass rapiers which are once again in her car to be taken along on Wednesday.

Eleanor has discovered that she likes using the hanging guard against Ludwig's oberhau but needs to tighten her defence as the resulting bruises are less then fun.

Ludwig brought along a couple of bucklers so we did a bit with them.

Eloise and Eleanor hatted up with single sword.

Elisabeth cut out a new 16th century kirtle from blue linen, and adjusted the back of her Dorothea Sabina dress.

Maria decided to make some cushions with tassles on the corners, so Caterine taught everyone how to make tassles. She also decided to make a new 15th century dress with big sleeves out of green linen.

Eleanor brought her gambesin to refit through the back, but then made the happy discovery that it didn't need any adjusting, so did some flat felling for Maria.