In this month’s podcast episode of Tales from Tudor Times… Time traveling Bella Salas falls for Elizabethan caps: linen beauties with elaborate embroidery, a luxurious be-feathered velvet topper, and a plain woolen head covering that helps her escape from a mean suitor.
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I stole a glance at Lettice’s stitchery. She was fashioning a pattern of bulrushes in metallic gold and olive-green threads on a background of Nile green sarcenet. On the other side of the passageway, Genevra was adorning stiff cream-colored silk with brilliant red and yellow pomegranates.
In my teenaged years I’d spent my time studying Calculus, Operating Systems Protocols, and Mapping Theory. In their own time, Lettice and Genevra had been honing their skills with a needle, learning how to use gilt thread and create precise goeblin and Spanish black work tent stitches. Embroidery was a hobby for me, but they had worked on it daily since they were young girls. My lack of experience showed.
Having taken one look at the work I’d been doing on clothes from the household mending basket, our new project lead, Genevra, immediately declared that “Lady Isabella can do the plain sewing for her Majesty’s ladies.” I returned to hemming a finely woven, but indeed very plain, white linen sheet with a sigh.
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Paloma reached for the box and opened it to display an antique, gold-rimmed miniature painting. "It’s uncanny," she said. "This woman really looks like you." My sister laughed. "I bet you think you’re going to find a time portal back to the sixteenth century when you get to London."
Listen in as LR Shimer shares time traveling Tudor tidbits in this companion to her novel, Tangled in Tudor Times.
Tales from Tudor Times Podcast Episode 1
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Software Engineer Bella Salas tumbles through a stained-glass window into Tudor times, where she finds romance and suspense in the shadow of the Roman Emperor Hadrian's ancient wall.
With fellow time traveler Will Sainsbury as her guide, Bella establishes herself in sixteenth century England by passing as her look-a-like kinswoman, the Lady Isabella. Though her matchmaking hostess parades eligible suitors before her, Bella prefers green-eyed, secretive Will.
The English north country, with its frolicking lambs and wildflower-filled meadows, is the perfect place for romance. And how many other sewing hobbyists can say they've embroidered sheets for Queen Elizabeth the First? As Bella searches for a way to return to her own time, she learns there's a dark side to the rural community. Young girls are being attacked by an unknown predator, and the isolated villagers don't want to talk about the open secret.
Can Bella catch the predator, and escape Tudor times?
