Well, I tried it. A beautiful and small motif with clunies.
Mine isn't so beautiful but as my elder daughter says, "It's your first try." It was and I'm determined to get better. I tried two different ways to form the loom. For me, Portela Julie's is the best although my poor hand looked like a claw for quite a while after. This silly motif took me 2.5 hours! Yes, I know there should be 8 leaves but this looked like enough...
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| There are two clunies that I like... |
And now for the educational portion of the blog. Apparently clunies are called such because they were originally displayed in the Cluny museum of Paris. This is my favorite museum (quelle coincidence!) because not only does it house an amazing collection of medieval art and the
Lady and Unicorn tapestries (not to be missed); it is built in/on the structure of a set of Roman Baths when Paris was still called Lutetia (= mud city). You go through the baths portion on the way to the medieval parts but you can miss them if you don't look left and right. And I advise that you walk into the various Roman rooms too, they are in fantastic shape. This little museum is a skip and a hop from Notre Dame but rarely has many people in it. You can tell it's housed in baths because of the telltale domed windows and the
red brick striping that is common in that kind of
Roman architecture which can be seen even as you walk by. And to top it all off, there's a sweet
mini-park across from the entrance with a copy of Rome's
she-wolf!
