antependium
I finished the first of the four cornered filler panels on the antependium. These are proving to take forever as they’re so complicated to do.
Oh, and then I knocked the frame over and broke one of the pivoty wotsits that hinges into the legs. It was a weak point, to be honest, as it had been repaired once before. Am not sure if Gareth will have time to repair it this weekend, I might have to cannibalise my other, identical frame.
What is an antependium, something hanging in front of something? I looked at your gallery of work – I loved your outfit and particularly the huge prop-up frame with the clay weights, never mind the beautiful weaving! Very interesting indeed.
Eva
an antependium is latin name for an alter frontal (am not in the least bit religios, btw, but I like medieval art)
not sure which outfit You saw but the frame is a warp wieghted loom, main weaving loom of the ancient world, which continued in use in scandinavia up to the early c20th. Over easter I’m warping up a brand new one for my local museum
Vocal responses :
“Oooo! Lovely!
oooooo! Crap!”
Reading comment above – oh, is that what an antependium is!
did I never explain that part? ooops!
Very possibly awhile back …. me of the shocking memory, and also, who remembers those terms for those churchy soft furnishings/vestments anyway?
i can only remember them if I sit down and rememorise them about every other year.
antependium might stick, as I look at the thing just about every day, but I always get confused by scapulas and the like