Silk Road Notebooks

I know I promised you the really really fascinating garment I made multiple pages of notes on, but since I spent all day painting medieval pottery, and since I want to keep up with my item-a-day schedule, and since I want to get to sleep early tonight, I'm fobbing you off with a fairly simple felt hat.

A Pot Party

Made it to this weekend's pottery painting party for the Perfectly Period Feast. There was an unfortunate firing failure (half the intended painting subjects came out cracked) so we pretty much only had one piece each to work on. That meant I decided to pick one of the more intricate originals to copy. The colors will be darker after firing, of course.



The original (14th c. Spanish):