Textile Orgasm...

[threadwalker]

Itinerary:

10/26: Flying. Which for me = sleeping. Really.. as soon as the plane moves, I'm snoring. I can't stay awake even if I try. It amazes the husband who CAN'T sleep on a plane. I remind him that travelling great distances with speed and ease is an important super-hero power and give him the "look"; cuz I know I'm a super-hero, but I think he might be an evil mad genius in disguise... LOL. But there it is. I will arrive in Paris well rested and bright-eyed, ready for customs.

10/27-10/30
Paris: Textiles, costumes, night-time landmarks, catacombs, etc. And... SHOE SHOPPPING!!!

10/30-10/31
Lyon: more textiles and more shoe shopping.

11/1
stupid national holiday. Feet up on train from Lyon to Padua..., watching the country side roll by. One switch over in Milan.

11/2
Padua: Frescoes and hopefully get to see one of the silly graduations they do

11/2-11/4
Ravenna: Mosaics and boot shopping and wine/cheese (gawd that's an awesome memory from 2001.. but this time I'm getting the BOOTS dammit!)

11/4-11/5
Prato: Prato Textile Museum

11/5-11/9
Florence: Textile Colloquiem (how the heck do you spell that?)... textiles, gelato, costume tours...

11/10
Milan: Chilling out and shopping

11/11: Home again home again...

I think I'm going to pass out from textile overload. I hope the dollar gets a wee bit stonger, but it's not all suck. It was $1.7/E a few months ago and it was $1.4/E when I checked yesterday. I planned all the accomodations between Paris and Florence; me, some maps, the rail schedules... I felt like I was planning an invasion of the textile museums of Italy and France.

Strangely enough, I came away from the trip planning feeling like I needed an additional 2 weeks to do it justice. There's this embroidery school I wanted to take classes from; there's quaint local museums that beg to be explored; I'm going to have to take a pass on Urbino in order to hit Prato's Textile Museum... We did Venice back in 2001, but I could stand 3-4 more days in Venice. Venice is good for the textile soul...

Anyways, I'll take what I can get and wallow in textiles for 2 weeks.
Edit:
PS. I'm on hiatus from new projects for me. I have 2 outfits (my fruit seller and my ropa outfit) and one gamurra, so in my mind there's plenty of need. I have emptied the wardrobe of stuff that doesn't fit, so there's plenty of space for new things. I have fabric, so there's resources. I have plenty of books and inspiration. I just know I'll come home from the Conference with new ideas on cut and construction. It would be mad to start something new knowing myself as I do. Instead, I'm pulling out my wools and silk brocades and preemptively moving them to my workshop. I'm prewashing my linen linings. I'm getting wooden beads and thread. The shears are being sharpened, the pins are being sorted into their correct boxes(*). I'm carefully staging stuff in anticipation of returning from my trip.

(*) yes, I sort my pins. I mentioned I'm OCD

Comments

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

*drool*

I am soooooo jealous. All those fabulous textiles and museums and history and *shoes*!!!

FYI, they don't advertise it much, but there are some amazing embroideries in Cluny in Paris. Includes some fabulous Opus pieces.

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

that's what I'd heard about the Cluny. Should I drop in my museum itinerary?

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

I think you had your museum itinerary in another post.

Oh, and the Cluny also has some amazing originals of well-known tapestries. (Beyond the Unicorns, even.)

(Yeah, it's my favorite museum in Paris. And that IS saying something.)