Whites Load (All Linen, Mostly Clothing)

*softly weeps*

Guys I don't want to make any more underwear.



Okay so!

What can I say about linen and underwear, in regards to General Medieviality, that I haven't said several times before? Linen was worn closest to the skin because it launders so well, wicks sweat away, lasts through all the sweating and the grease and the lye and the beating (unlike, say, cotton), and bleaches easily in the sun. Wet linen bleaches white under UV lighting while dry linen starts to yellow, and of course not everybody wore the very best linen, or even the very best linen they personally owned, absolutely all the time.

Basically, in Medieval Europe, everybody wore linen somewhere-- between their skin and their slightly-itchy wool tunic, between their hair that they washed... sometime in the last month, maybe, and their felted-wool hat-- or between their hair and their practical straw hat that might catch. Over a wool gown as an apron, tucked up against the butt as braises, streaming from the upper arms as tippets, pinned to the wimple as a veil-- wrapped around the chin as a wimple!

White linen was everywhere.

This is, effectively, a Linen Dump.

Being a dump, all the Important Information goes outside the cut: Too many cooks who all say no paysites, so, no paysites; meshers are credited inside because otherwise I will lose my mind, but the base fabric is pretty much always Magpie's Linen, and always done in eight color actions from Pooklet's Project Mayhem, CuriousB's Any Color You Like, and Aelia Eco action sets-- in order from whitest to grungest, Pooklet's Time Bomb, CuriousB's Milk, Aelia's Ecru, CuriousB's Oyster, Aelia's Vanilla, Pooklet's Primer, Aelia's Beige, and Pooklet's Grenade. I have also used textures by Alix, Cynnix, and FantasyRogue, and I clearly, clearly went overboard because I am, at this point, sick of white and off-white.

( This happens to me when I sew, too, I am SO READY for COLOR. )

BUY MODE BLITZ: Beck's Playable Flute

Beck's Playable Recorder Flute comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural colors over my now-usual blend of Piggi Wood 03 and the SDA Castle Kitchen wood. Keep in mind you need both BecksATSRecorderFlutePlayable.package and BecksRecorderFluteSounds.package for the instrument to work, regardless of recolors.

So this object is historically accurate; duct flutes (like recorders) don't just date back to the Middle Ages, they date back to the Neolithic. My hole placement may be modern (I mostly followed Beck's own but also put a thumb-hole on the back), but this TYPE of instrument? Very old indeed, and Medieval recorders have been found dating as far back as possibly-1246. Most historical recorders were made of wood, with some made of ivory or bone, so this time I really did pick an appropriate media to recolor this object!

The recorder was popular on through about 1750, and in the 20th century made a comeback for both historically-informed performance art and promoting lung health in elementary students.

( Is this a flute or is it a recorder? )