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Persona: 6thC

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Who was it that the Vikings raided?  Why?  I built this persona as an attempt to understand the other side of the popular icons, and fell in love with the clothes, the fibercraft, the jewelry, and the graphic design of Kent. This period is also called the Migration Period by historians, and as the Byzantines take up moving things around the world that the Romans left off, I also find appropriate the dregs of Roman, some Coptic, and of course Byzantine clothing and gear for a culture on the coast, settled by seafarers, and clearly talented in their works. MY … Continue reading Persona: 6thC

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Early Anglo-Saxon embroidery

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More quoting from the lists: Class Handouts Unaltered class handouts may be reproduced for use in non-profit teaching  programs (eg SCA Collegia etc). * Five Period Stitches – Quick Reference Guide – Oct, 2003 (.pdf 148kb) * Five Period Stitches – In Depth – March, 2006 (.pdf 2.4 mb) (revised) * Embroidery for Clothing – Anglo-Saxon – Nov, 2004 (.pdf 3.6 mb)  * Getting Started with Tunics – March, 2005 (.pdf 535 kb)  Hi, The best overview for viking and anglo-saxon embroidery stitches and styles  is  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/asvembroid.html this site has a few nice images: http://kaleeb.galtham.org/pdf/Kaleeb-angloembroidery.pdf Queen Arnegunde find, 6th century … Continue reading Early Anglo-Saxon embroidery

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Red-tanned leather

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Since I've started back to school, I've not been starting much new, though still keeping an eye on possibly useful items that come up on the lists.  From Norsetalk2: Christopher wrote: >What would be a period way to a veg tanned leather belt red? There are a number of extant early and medieval recipes for dyeing leather  red. The most common dyestuff I've seen referred to for that purpose was  brazilwood, but madder was also used. There is an extant Frankish belt in the Arnegunde grave; it's very  elaborate, with cutwork and gilded parchment and a big gilt bronze  buckle. … Continue reading Red-tanned leather

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RUM 2010

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RUM was held less than an hour away this year, so I got to go. The Royal University of Meridies is the annual big teaching event for the kingdom of Meridies, and it also hosts meetings for many of the kingdom's service groups, resulting in the usual problem of too many places to be at one time, and difficult decisions for someone like me, who has her hand in too many Yahoo! lists. So I chose according to Most Pressing Responsibility, which was first that I'm the new chatelaine of Glynn Rhe, and there was a series of How To … Continue reading RUM 2010

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Coats for Gulf Wars

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It's somehow much easier to work on jackets, coats, and cloaks when there's snow on the ground. Everyone with extensive Gulf Wars experience is worried about another really cold one this year.  This seems amazing to me, as I have always been quite warm during the day, though nights can be really chilly.  Still, it's a great time to curl up with handwork under piles of wool. I'm sewing for three on a regular basis now, so first I attended to the family:   Teenaged girl likes both Oriental and Irish culture.  She'd received a wrapped Mongolian coat shell, but … Continue reading Coats for Gulf Wars

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Amber is a SCA convention; new cemetery report

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Hmm.  I'd been thinking about getting a couple of strands of amber chips to play with, when I found a reference in Owen-Crocker to amber going out of use by the 7thc, and shortly thereafter a comment on Norsefolk about huge ropes of amber being unsupported by evidence, and a "SCA convention".  I need to read more about this so I don't get myself into trouble. (The new necklace from Pennsic, from Cabachon, which is the stall run by the woman who teaches so much Anglo-Saxon stuff, including architecture, and references literature so charismatically.  I might be okay with this … Continue reading Amber is a SCA convention; new cemetery report

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5th century Irish Tuam (a camp chair)

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I've been wanting a camp chair that was strong enough for anybody to sit in, and for me to sit in someone's lap in.  And, since it's mine, it needed some "in the range of" documentation, even though it's a camp chair.  And it had to fold up or break down nicely.  And I wanted it to be more comfortable than a plywood chair. Here's the one Michael Moulton and I worked on this weekend: 5thc Irish Tuam; I haven't seen the book that this guy's instructions are based on yet, and I'd really like to see the original information there, but I figured … Continue reading 5th century Irish Tuam (a camp chair)

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More about Frankish Kent (women’s clothes only, sorry)

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I am helping a friend think about 6thc clothing for Crown List, and thought it'd be nice to collect some research images, with my thoughts about how they might be put together. Aillegan is focused on Merovingian – that'd be Continental – but as there's significant influence in Kent by Franks (the marriage of Berthe to Ethelbert in late 6thc), and I've got a couple of really good books about the period, I'm sharing. The books are: Owen-Crocker, Gale.  Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. Rogers, Penelope Walton.  Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo-Saxon England. The images that follow are from them. … Continue reading More about Frankish Kent (women’s clothes only, sorry)

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The Orkney Hood

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I met Brid, Laurel of the East Kingdom, interested in early period British Isles stuff (particularly Irish) in Thora Sharptooth's wadmal class. This is her in her Orkney hood.  I like hooded capes very much (see the chaperon pattern), and didn't know about this one, so I looked it up, and found this re-creation. I will never be as good as the author in this paper.  Not that I think I have to be, but my word – the fantasticness of the geekery.  All honors and homage are due.  I am terribly impressed. Continue reading The Orkney Hood

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Summertime, school is out! Requesting EP fiction…

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Why yes, I was one of those boring children who read all summer long, but even the most dedicated learner benefits from a change of pace. I'm collecting fiction about sub-Roman Empire Britain, for the purposes of increasing my ambiant knowledge without the angst of yet another research project.  (The more I personally identify with and enjoy my research directions, and the further I stretch to get there…the thinner my skin gets.  Ergo, time to feed the right side of my brain.) Having just started, I haven't got very far yet, but the Dark Is Rising series is a favorite. … Continue reading Summertime, school is out! Requesting EP fiction…