Time Traveling Tudor Embroidery

 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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Tangled in Tudor Times, the first novel in my new series, is available on amazon.com. It's a romantic, suspense story with a time travel twist. Kindle Unlimited subscribers can download it for free. I'd love you to read it and leave a review.

 

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Where does a Time Traveler stay in Tudor Times?

We all need a place to stay when we go on a long trip.

And trips don't get a lot longer than the one Bella Salas takes to the Sixteenth Century.

Listen to ... Time Traveler Puts up in a Priory 

Listen to A Historic Elizabethan Double

A Time Travel Twist

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  

LR Shimer's amazon bookshelf

The Planner: Slipping Off To Time Portals Unknown

Today, The Planner, wants to toss her carefully laid out planner in the air 

And head for an unknown Time Portal.

What We Moderns Forget: Envelopes

The letter had been lost for 450 years. It’s envelope had gotten stuck under the inside flap of an old ledger box. No museum archivist had noticed it until Will Sainsbury came along to do a little research of his own.

I must have edited that scene fifteen to twenty times, before it occurred to me that a letter written in  the era of Elizabeth the First would probably not have been enclosed in an envelope,

Back in ancient days of BCE, Babylonians and Chinese people are known to have provided protective wrappings for some communications. It’s not totally beyond the realms of possibility others throughout the ages sometimes protected something important. 

But we better just fold up Will’s letter, seal it, and push it in under the lid.

More on Envelopes https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/pushing-the-envelope-144581278/

What We Moderns Forget: Light

In the 'midst of an historical story WHO HERE has not forgotten that our heroine needs to grab a candle, lamp, torch, or perhaps a shuttered lantern when she trips off to run into the antagonist?