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I also received your email! I am one of those who rarely post but what I DO like about this site is the ability to search past posts for specific things that I'm interested in. I've searched for making butter, butter churns, weaving, yarn, dye, kirtles, clerical clothing etc etc and there is always ...

This is out of my time frame so I don't understand a single word but a friend of mine has researched RN webbing - don't know if this would be of help or be of interest but here is the link http://www.navyweb.co.uk/ And I'm sure any questions could be directed to him via https://sites.google.com/site...

You could try knot biscuits / jumbles of which there are quite a few recipes out there - this is one! Ingredients to make 25 jumbles 400g Self Raising Flour 160g Sugar 2 Eggs 2g Caraway seeds or Mixed Spice to taste Water to mix Method 1. Mix the flour, sugar, eggs and spice / seeds in a bowl. 2. Ad...

Nigel - finally managed to get into town yesterday and checked out the stall - and yes, they do have a good range of linen in many colours!

Some very nice blue just had to come home with me.....

And the revised second edition is now available:

special offer for uk customers: buy a signed copy of 'gondarlan' directly from the author, at the special launch price of £6 plus £1.50 p+p! email her.story@hotmail.co.uk to place your order.

An even better read at that price

Nigel wrote:Leeds market bm fabrics have a good range of linens from £4.00 a metre well worth a look and very friendly

NO!!!!! I do not need any more material!!!!!


But I'm in town tomorrow - it would be rude not to follow your kind suggestion

Herts Specialist Fabrics sell a variety of wool and linen (and it comes in amazing cloth bags too!) and will send samples to you so that you can check the weight / colour. I have some lovely linen that I made an underkirtle out of and bought some 'medieval' wool from them that I used for an overkirt...

This novel introduces us to the spoilt (but quite likeable!) daughter of the King of Gondarlan, the court, servants and the people of Gondarlan as well as the suitor for the Princess - Jehan and his Angorian entourage (whose way of life is very different from that of the Gondarlans). When the Angori...