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.

 

It's also the perfect present for historical, romance, Tudor-loving friends, and family. 

 

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Ebook  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M32DQ9X

 

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

Tangled in Tudor Times - Romantic Suspense with a Time Travel Twist

 

Tangled in Tudor Times, the first novel in my new series, is available. 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.

 

It's also a perfect present for historical, romance, Tudor-loving friends, and family.

Ebook  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09M32DQ9X

 

Paperback  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LWGSYMY

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?

 

Bramble Berries - Last of the Olallieberries

Summer Draws to a Close in California. 

What could be more romantic?

Olallieberry

 

Was Living Together a Sin in Tudor Times?

Many folks today, think living together, without being married is a modern idea. 

In the first half of the sixteenth century, HenryVIII’s fifth wife, Catherine  Howard, and Francis Dereham were definitely a Tudor couple.

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/

Dog's Eye View of Liminal Space

Dog's have their own view of  #LiminalSpace.

Jasper* finds it between sea and shore in  History Rich Half Moon Bay, CA

*If you're looking to be rescued by a dog, check Jasper's first home at Tiramisu Dog Rescue. They saved him from, what would have been, a very short life on the streets, And he was cared for and trained extremely well.

A Time Portal is Liminal Space

A time portal is neither here nor there. 

 It exists in Liminal Space* 

Shall we stop and consider our choices?

Or let Time take us where she wills?
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* Liminal Space is the area between here and there. It is also between the ordinary world and the mystic.

Slow Traveller: New Lamps for Old!

Time Portal in the Alhambra Palace, Granada Spain

Basma was enchanted by the Sorcerer who called out "New Lamps for Old!" 

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Tales of the Arabian Nights traveled to the Muslim Stronghold, shown here in Granda Spain, 700 years before the Reconquista.

What will I find when I follow the path through this time portal?

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In this blog I'll include Time Travel spinoffs  such as...

- Historical Tidbits and Romance 

          *A Woman's point of view

- Time Travel and Other Historical Story Favorites

- Museum themed notes and stories

- Slow Travel with historical impressions

             * California, The American West, and Lands Beyond

- Tiles, Tapestries and Textiles

            * Quilts

- Romantic Action,  Adventure

-Societies in Transition  

        * The Depression, Changes Beyond the War Years, The New Woman, ...