365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Netted Snood
Day 37: This one's for the mediaevalists out there (and you know who you are). I only recently discovered detailed instructional material for making netted lace (something I've wanted to add to my repertoire of needlearts for at least fifty years). I played around with making simple bags for a bit, and then wanted to advance to a level where the end product stops being a net and begins being true lace by virtue of having a more textural design. Although this is generally executed as filet embroidery (adding surface threads to a base net), texture can also be incorporated into the net itself by making increases and decreases in the structure. I opted for simple clusters. These are made by putting two stitches in two adjacent loops in one row to produce four loops, and then joining those four loops in the next row. An increase of one loop at the center of each sequence must be made in the third row if the piece is to maintain a uniform diameter, and then one plain row is worked in order to be in the right position to begin another cluster. Snoods are known from the Bronze Age onward, and were most commonly worn by women during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They were often made from metallic fibers and frequently incorporated pearls or other gems into the lace.
Labels:
hair net,
mediaeval costume,
netting,
snood
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