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by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:40 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

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Anyone prepared to speculate about why popular belief has it that the Treatyse was written by a nun?
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:27 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

The Treatyse was supposedly written by a nun. In those days priest’s vestments were made by nuns so they would have access to silk thread and dyed wool for embroidery. Guilds were very powerful and for someone to be dyeing wool then would similar to a non-union actor working on a movie set today. W...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 12:19 pm
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

I don’t want to be like Johnson in his definition of oatmeal, but dyeing wasn’t much of a thing in Ireland. While dyeing in Scotland is well documented; the same can’t be said of Ireland. I think Donegal tweed would well represent the Irish tradition. Wool that was dyed would be boiled until it fel...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:52 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

Black in the Middle Ages was an expensive color. Of course a cheap black could be made of tannin and iron but the amount of iron needed to get black would eventually rot it. Black silk thread was once known for breaking easily, probably for the same reason. In some countries these iron tannate blac...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 11:00 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

I've spent a lot of time researching the colors in the descriptions of the flies in the Treatyse. Language changes greatly over time and words can't be fully understood in the way they were actually used in their time. See my other post, and pitch in with some comments. I remember Mary Shiels being...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 10:43 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

There we go, the flies for the Treatyse: The most frustrating thing about the Treatyse is that there are paragraphs of instruction about how to die horsehair and nothing about how to die the flies, as WSBailey has doubtless cause to chew the table over! In 1998 Connie Feely at Rogan's tied the flies...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:26 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

This is a fascinating discussion. I was a little taken aback at first by what I thought was an unnecessary broadside toward Mr. Smith, but Rob seems to have an arsenal worthy of rebutting Mr. Herd. I just finished reading McDonald's 'Quill Gordon', again, and the tone of this conversation is wonder...
by Anherd
Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:01 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

This has been one of the most entertaining and interesting discussion I've found on the forum. My first born is an editor and has worked for publishers such as Bloomsbury and Chronicle Books, as well as free lance. Though most of her work was in fiction, she often commented about types of writers, ...
by Anherd
Fri Feb 07, 2020 4:35 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

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For people who are curious about how I came up with that comparative list so fast, I did it when Magee's book was published. In those days, Word had not long made it onto Windoze, and as far as I know, Les submitted his text as a typewritten MS. Believe it or now, I have dealt with a few authors who...
by Anherd
Fri Feb 07, 2020 3:48 am
Forum: Tying Wingless Wets
Topic: North Country spider article
Replies: 122
Views: 34275

Re: North Country spider article

upstatetrout wrote: Thu Feb 06, 2020 5:47 pm Me thinks there could be a novel idea hidden here????????

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As in a new idea, of a work of fiction? How about 'The Ballad of Les Magee' ??