We had some ideas for filming aspects of the Lan and Deek story and ideas associated with it. Mike was having a bit of a return love affair with textiles that had started in his youth. He got inspired to make clothes Lan and Deek might have worn and soon took them on a creative journey picking up skills on his way.
He had started with wool as Neolithic people kept sheep and progressed to upcycling some utility blankets someone had given him years before from the WWII era. We already had ideas about Deek being sun and Lan being moon in their leanings. It was these costumes which make such a colourful addition to walls that gave us the idea to go ahead with setting up a section on the website, the Museum of Pagan Arty-Facts as the display is reminiscent of a museum showing a persons belongings together. We find these personal items are often the things which make museums especially interesting and connect the viewer with the person they belong to albeit in this case fictional.
Mike dyed the wool fabric with indigo, a natural dyestuff, he bought in. They are tie dyed to create stars and then a moon and stars coarsely embroidered with cream wool. Although we may never know due to natural degradation of textiles what colours Neolithic people wore but their rich herbalist knowledge would suggest dying like this would be easy for them. binding is sewn leather and wool. Mike added a leather belt. Knowing that not only Neolithic people had bone and flint needles, but actually made very sophisticated and fine textiles, much finer than this is very inspiring.