posted January 16, 2013 10:56 AM
Ok well the previous life is from in the late 1700s to around 1840. So perhaps 1771 to 1841 this sits ok enough.A female tailor it is and she dresses almost as a male, which is very unusual for the time. She speaks french but was not born in France. She travelled on a big boat and accompanied a prominent pair of brothers as their personal tailor. She would cry at night when she was finishing a garment as she would be suffering by candle or lamplight and her fingers were painful despite using thimbles and stuff, sometimes out of speediness she just had to push on with unprotected fingertips. They were so demanding the brothers, but they paid well. They often allowed associates the use of her tailoring so she felt under pressure to quickly produce things. For some reason, though being paid well she never really had much money. I think she did things like bought fish to feed stray cats and bought neglected pets and then she had to pay people to look after the animals so basically all her money went on looking after animals that weren't even her own. However she did have cats and a small dog of her own and she dressed the dog in a little pea green suit and frequently put new ribbons and bells on the cats.
She wore a skirt but perhaps they were more like a pair of culottes and you could see her lower stockinged legs which wasn't really the done thing but she got away with it because people weren't quite sure of her gender - her name was Tibus Aimerie du Franc.
She wore her hair tied in a low pony tail with a ribbon and she wore a strange hat that was a bit like robin hood's and she made the dog's hat in the same way. One of the suits matched the hat and it was in fact green, but she also had a reddish brown set but wore the same green hat. She also had a yellow and blue almost costume that she wore on what she would consider as carnival or free time days. But the other suits were her everyday.
She generally ate fish, only lightly fried and would cook it up for her and her cats. The dog mainly ate cooked eggs and small raw bird scraps which I think may have been a type of pest bird caught and sold for meat and she gave some of the bird scraps to the cats too.
She lived in a port. The brothers that she worked for wore white wigs and were known as hausiers, which I can't find anywhere but maybe it meant that they took advantage of warring sides by staying neutral or something or maybe they were liberals like a conservative. I think they were considered Alsations, so from Alsace.
Tibus was born out of wedlock and part of a guild from birth so she was raised in a tailoring house to be a tailoress. The guild was in Romanesque Britain but I think this was actually Brittany. They were attached to a tavern with a theatre in it so they also did costumery. Some of the guild were also a type of prostitute but they all went to church.
The port she lived in later sounds like Aladom Maltese or Allardorme maltis in Badgeera or something which is on the western side of the french speaking peninsula of Valetta in Malta. Well I thought it was Bagerra but I think it is Bugibba near Valetta, Malta, and I don't think they are french speaking anymore but the info seems to suggest they were french speaking at the time.
She used to lightly burn her fingertips to make them harder so as to be able to cope with the fine needles.
Her biggest health issue was from some kind of waist thing that intended to keep her waist small when she was younger and was forced on her but also just an accepted thing. So she had at one time always had to wear this boned lacing thing like a corset in her growing years to keep her waist small and this gave her trouble later on even after she no longer wore it. It had some how damaged her diaphragm or something or kept her lower ribs in so that she tended to breathe shallowly like when she was still corseted. The only thing that improved it was to lie stretched out with her hands above her arms stretched above her head and in line with her body. She would have to take regular breaks from her sewing to rest. And I think she had some kind of bowel issue like adhesions in her bowel or something.
I think she had relationships but she struck out on her own eventually, and had a small kind of shop a few doors down from where she rented a room in some kind of public drinking and eating place. I think she ended up having two children and lived a few doors down from where she initially had the sort of shop on this cobbled street in a small type of house although it was under another house. She was quite artistic but I'm not sure what she did. I think she designed more and more as time went by. The father of the children was a sailor and they had nothing in common, but they really liked each other. He thought she was so talented and able to bring in earnings. She liked the fact that he was down to earth and always knew how to handle any situation his name was Besiba which may have been a variation of the name Barnabas. I think he was a local, a muslim or similar, and maybe had some kind of byzantine or persian ancestry.
Anyway, she stayed with him and his family lived all around them but she had to basically slave for his mother and the home would get inspected by this mother.
I think she made the transition from working for the brothers by first working for some kind of establishment then she struck out on her own and she had another young girl/woman working for her. I think the job with the brothers dissolved when one of them died from some kind of gunshot stuff in his eye and brain that no one could do anything about. Then the other brother just left and didn't sort of end things properly. So Tibus barely knew how her employment situation finished and for some time she thought she might be still in the other brother's employee but she only had scattered info about where he went.
I think she died of constipation or a bowel blockage.
Lindaland
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posted January 16, 2013 03:38 AM
