My name is Mistress Victoria Thrakesina. I married into a noble Byzantine family, which has wide interests in the cloth trade and prides itself on the quality of it’s products. As part of my familial duties I spin, weave and dye, because understanding how things are made helps ensure that …
This is my favourite fingerloop braid and it’s quite a simple one. It’s from the Harley 2320 manuscript. The original reads: A green dorge of 6 bowes: Set 4 bowes of one color on B, C right and B, C left, and one bowe of another color on D right, …
This month’s award cord is again brought to you by Meroe M. Cahill (Rohese de Fairhurst). Five strands
Every third Sunday of the month, the Southron Gaard Fibre Guild members get together to share what we’re working on and to learn from each other. By popular request, at our March Fibre Guild get-together we had a go at some natural dyeing. And by popular request, I mean mostly …
This month’s award cord is variations on a four strand plait by Meroe M. Cahill (Rohese de Fairhurst). Download and enjoy! Four strands four ways
Welcome to the website of the Fibre Guild of Lochac. Lochac is a kingdom in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The Fibre Guild of Lochac exists to promote knowledge of the fibre arts and crafts including but not limited to dyeing, spinning, weaving, tablet weaving, fingerloop braiding, plaiting, ply-splitting, passementerie, …
Hello and welcome to the first in a series of posts where our members share a favourite award cord pattern. If you are interested in contributing a pattern, please let me know. I’m going to kick things off with a tablet woven cord. This is a spiral cord based on …
Welcome to the new website of the Fibre Guild of Lochac. I am your webminister, Mistress Amalie von Brisache. I am also a Master of the Guild, and an obsessed tablet weaver from Southron Gaard. Our website has been moved to WordPress on the Lochac servers because this makes it …
On the Friday of Canterbury Faire, 14-23 January, there was a meeting of the Fibre Guild. The meeting began with a show and tell of the diverse projects of those present. Spinning, weaving, dyeing, tablet weaving, naalbinding, fingerloop and sprang were all represented and I have probably forgotten some since …