Met with friend regarding her project, shared research, need to make some scans and copies for her, and also dig up some literary references. Sorry about vagueness, not technically my project.

Made progress in my quest to make a byobu screen–talked with someone who might be willing to do the woodworking side of the project, or maybe at least show me how to do it? Anyway, that’s more than a year off, as I need to focus on making garb.

Sorted through some fabric, identifying some future projects utilizing fabric I have previously used in old outfits that I took apart. I really like the idea of reutilizing fabric when possible. Have a bit of a conundrum, though. I have some very nice Chinese brocade that I picked up on clearance years ago. It does have the right look for 16th century uchikake, but it is polyester and there is no getting around that. But the fabric was bought and paid for nearly 20 years ago, so I might as well use it? If nothing else, to learn the ins and outs of sewing uchikake inexpensively? Although poly doesn’t really act much like real brocade, but OTOH, real brocade is frightningly expensive…

Will post more on this, with pictures to illustrate what I’m talking about. I’m all about learning on the cheap stuff, but OTOH, it would be nice to look like I walked out of a picture, which is kinda hard to do with the cheap fabric sometimes.

Requested Inter-Library Loan on three books, no telling what luck I’ll have on them, but our library is usually pretty good about obtaining things. 2 books regarding boro (technically post-period, although there WAS patching in period per literature. The question would be to prove how it was done.) And trying again to get my hands on Kurihara Hiro and Kawamura Machiko. Jidai Ishō no Nuikata. Genryu-sha Joint Stock Co. Tokyo: 1984. I know people who have gotten it through ILL, but most of them were associated with universities. Not sure if it’ll fly from a civic public library.

Music practice cancelled, one of our trio was sick. Looked over the indices of a book on tenshou examples that my shodo teacher wrote. He’s added to the book since I bought it, but I need to identify which pages I need so I don’t have to buy a whole other book.