"...and all those things that you taught me to fear; I've got them in my garden now..."

[thanate]

Rain continues, and there is not enough lab work to merit going in. Rain, rain!

My internet search skills are lacking; I fail to find either useful info on food-grade resins, or any pictoral evidence of SCA-period samplers (ie, what Tudor/Elizabethan embroidered fonts ought to look like.) However, my doll wig has shipped, so it should turn up in a few days. I contemplate massacring a barbie to make sure the way I'm thinking of cutting it will actually work.

The cat is being bloodthirsty and wanting to eat dwarves. Presumably Sherry will manage to restrain it.

Now that I have a free day, there are FAR TOO MANY things that I want to do with it. Which usually leads to me contemplating all of them and not finishing anything. We shall see.

Comments

The V&A website is your friend...

[ballistabob.livejournal.com]

Go to the V&A website (http://www.vam.ac.uk/), and search the collections for the "Bostoke Sampler". That is probably the most famous of the Elizabethan embroidery samplers, and it has a good representation of the lettering.

Re: The V&A website is your friend...

[ballistabob.livejournal.com]

Correction - the Bostocke Sampler.

Re: The V&A website is your friend...

[thanate.livejournal.com]

got it, thanks. :) (and for some reason it didn't like it when I put both "bostocke" and "sampler" into the search block, but I did find it)

Ooohh, Plastic!

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

http://www.specialchem4polymers.com/tc/migration-center/index.aspx

http://www.devcon.com/techinfo/DA999.pdf

http://www.checnet.org/healtheHouse/education/quicklist-detail.asp?Main_ID=353

any of those helpful? i am at work, but not really doing any.

Re: Ooohh, Plastic!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

well, more helpful than what I came up with, but what I'm actually looking for is where one buys a fairly small quantity of food-grade resin. Because there are a few things I want to coat with it. Someone at pennsic suggested a particular tool catalog, the name of which I've totally forgotten (it began with a "T" and sounded sort of roman, maybe, I think... not that this is helpful)

Re: Ooohh, Confectioners' glaze!

[fishy1.livejournal.com]

Try Fran's (cake and candy supplies) in Fairfax. They have all kinds of stuff.

Re: Ooohh, Confectioners' glaze!

[thanate.livejournal.com]

not to eat. Stuff like the inside of my copper mug that tastes overwhelmingly of copper if you try to drink out of it. Or the inside of a turtle shell to make it into a bowl. That sort of thing.