====== Thoughts on Documentation for various projects intended to be used as A&S competition entries ======

[[http://scanorthernlights.org/forms/index.html#judge|Northern Lights]]
[[http://moas.ansteorra.org/|Ansteorra Arts]]


===== Ansteorra Kingdom Arts and Sciences - 9 Feb 2008 =====


=== a pair of 10th C Viking Men's hats woven in wool and hemp ===

Overview
  * Pair of blue wool caps in the Birka 'B' style
  * Based upon the descriptions and analysis of fragments found in the eastern Viking city of Birka
  * Outer cap is a blue wool single ply woven in a typical 2/1 twill weave
  * The work cap includes a lining woven from a hemp single ply yarn in a tabby (plain) weave

^  **How they did it**  ^  **How I did it**  ^
|Obtain a single ply wool yarn from  |Same  |
|Dye the thread in the desired color  |The yarn was a pleasant blue that is quite plausible for a woad or indigo dye available for the target time and culture  |
|
|Set the warps for a 1/2 twill  |Same  |
|Prepare a warp for a warp weighted loom by creating a tablet woven band using the warp of the desired lengths to create the cloth as the weft for the tablet weaving band  |Woven on a horizontal floor loom in order to gain experience in producing cloth before translating it into practical experience producing yardage on the warp weighted loom |
|Open and close the yarns in sets passing the weft through and beating it until proper tension, making the desired weave  |Same, used a direct tie up to better emulate the mechanics of the warp weighted loom  |