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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:53:47 -0500</pubDate>
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<webMaster>ben@houseofpung.net (Ben Pung)</webMaster>
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<title>Added: Linen Petticoat Bodies</title>
<description>3 petticoat bodies in different colors of linen for Pennsic wear</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:53:47 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=453</link>
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<title>Added: Woven Headband with pendants</title>
<description>This will be a tablet woven band with pewter cross pendants that will hang across the forehead.</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:52:37 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=452</link>
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<title>Updated: Blackwork and Lace Parlet</title>
<description>a partlet with a collar of blackwork (in red) with needle lace around the collar</description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:46:05 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=347</link>
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<title>Updated: Spanish Chopines</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new note has been added to this project.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:45:25 -0500</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=360</link>
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<title>Added: Felted hat</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:21:26 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=451</link>
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<title>Added: Hat Project of Doom</title>
<description>A survey of possible types of hats and other hairpieces based on partial finds throughout the Baltic region. Subprojects: sprang, nalbinding, felting, knitting; manipulated wire, soapstone cast, lost wax cast, and precious metal clay trim pieces.</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:20:18 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=450</link>
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<title>Updated: Apprentice belt</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new note has been added to this project.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 02:53:19 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=421</link>
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<title>Added: Italian Linen ladder laced gown</title>
<description>My dress created for the real of venus Italian costuming challenge</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:36:18 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=449</link>
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<title>Updated: Black linen Bustle</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:33:55 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=387</link>
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<title>Updated: Victorian day dress (brown)</title>
<description>full bustled day dress</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:32:50 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=384</link>
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<title>Updated: Victorian Wig</title>
<description>A wig styled in the victorian style late 1800&#039;s</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:30:42 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=383</link>
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<title>Updated: Brown linen underskirt (Victorian)</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:29:43 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=388</link>
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<title>Updated: Victorian draped overskirt</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:28:12 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=390</link>
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<title>Updated: Full italian ladder laced gown</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:27:30 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=393</link>
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<title>Updated: Viking Fabulous Dress</title>
<description><![CDATA[New link: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tashabear/6114688491/in/photostream">all but complete griffin</a>]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:24:34 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=415</link>
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<title>Updated: Viking Fabulous Dress</title>
<description><![CDATA[A new note has been added to this project.]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:22:08 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=415</link>
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<title>Updated: Spanish Chopines</title>
<description>high platform shoes worn out by ladies in Spain and Venice in the 1500s, wood or cork platforms ornately decorated and laced on over shoes</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:20:30 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=360</link>
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<title>Updated: Elizabethan Sweetbag (Athena&#039;s Thimble)</title>
<description>a sweetbag showing the symbol for Athena&#039;s Thimble to display embroidery ranking won in that guild</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:15:47 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=346</link>
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<title>Updated: Bhakail Army Medallions</title>
<description>NEW-pewter pitchers on kumihimo chords with glass beads for each war attended

medallions embroidered with Bhakail&#039;s salamander on woven lanyards for the foot soldiers</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:15:00 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=345</link>
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<title>Updated: 16th century Spanish fan</title>
<description>a round parchment fan made to close into a flat piece</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:14:41 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=357</link>
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<title>Updated: Wysteria double hishi karakumi</title>
<description>This is a double hishi (diamond) karakumi (style of early period kumihimo, or Japanese braiding) done on a karakumidai.  

The color scheme is based on the Heian kasane called Wysteria, which is white and graduated (murasaki) purples.  It is worked with 48 strands on a karakumidai, using cotton DMC.

When finished, it will be a narrow belt, about 3/4 an inch wide and 8 feet long.

Started: June 11, 2011
Finished: ?

48 strand braid.

D=Dark purple pair  154 DMC
M=Medium purple pai...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:26:12 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=437</link>
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<title>Added: Cherry Blossom dressing braid, #2</title>
<description>Cherry Blossom Dressing braid, done in black, grey, and pink--this braid looks like small cherry blossoms on a black field and is intended to be used as a dressing cord for a Heian Lady&#039;s court dress.

16 strand braid

grey, pink, and black

final length: ?</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:20:08 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=448</link>
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<title>Added: Cherry Blossom dressing braid, #1</title>
<description>Cherry Blossom Dressing braid, done in black, grey, and pink--this braid looks like small cherry blossoms on a black field and is intended to be used as a dressing cord for a Heian Lady&#039;s court dress.

16 strand braid

grey, pink, and black

final length: ?</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:19:36 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=447</link>
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<title>Added: Heian Kosode - Scary yellow fabric</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:00:27 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=446</link>
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<title>Added: Under the Snow single Hishi Karakumi</title>
<description>Under the Snow Single hishi (diamond) Braid, colors chosen to compliment the kasane no irome Under the Snow, representing the cherry blossoms blooming under a late spring snow. A portion of it may be used to adorn a Mo.

Dark pink, medium pink, light pink/mauve, and white.

Started: April 21, 2011
Finished: around June 4th, 2011
 
D=Dark plum pair  3685 DMC
M=Medium plum pair  3687  DMC
L=Light plum Pair 3688 DMC
W=White pair  blanc  DMC
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WWWDML  *  LMDWWW

Finished le...</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:00:23 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=445</link>
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<title>Updated: Tudor Shirt</title>
<description>Fencing Armor for Lucien Featherstone
Tudor Shirt: Black Linen
Jerkin : Rust Linen w/ trim</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:59:18 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=376</link>
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<title>Added: Tudor Shirt - Fencing Armor</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:58:25 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=444</link>
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<title>Updated: Abaya - Gold (short)</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:49:47 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=134</link>
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<title>Added: Wedding Dresses and Formal Wear</title>
<description></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:41:55 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=443</link>
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<title>Added: MacEoghain Single hishi karakumi</title>
<description>This is a red, black, and white single hishi pattern (diamond) karakumi (a type of flat kumihimo.  It was my first attempt at Karakumi and I chose the colors based on my household colors.  I am not sure what it will be used for.

24 bobbins
Alternating pairs of red, black, and red.

Started:  Pennsic 2010
Finished: April 21, 2011

R=Red pair  DMC
B=black pair  DMC
W=white pair  DMC
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    RWBRWB   *  BWRBWR

6 yards 16 inches + tassles</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:36:53 -0400</pubDate>
<link>http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_detail.php?id=442</link>
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