Scandinavian between 850-1050 AD.
The Byrdraka sailed as a vigil tent at Meridies Kingdom A&S/Crown List! She always looks nice at night. Things we learned: You can do a lot with extra canvas yardage, some sisal rope, and a box of T-pins. These all fit … Continue reading Arty Crown Spring 2017
As some of you may know, my husband is the instigator and chief crew member of The Byrdraka, a fictional Viking ‘boat’ which brings revelry places seaworthy craft cannot, since she is built on a 20′ trailer. (Follow her progress on … Continue reading Help me put a sail on The Byrdraka!
(Here ought to go a pile of apologies for forgetting how to blog. Let’s call that done, and get to the good stuff.) Way back in February, my adopted group Glynn Rhe, threw an event called Wine List. The “List” … Continue reading Wine List, February 2011
I mean to go look at this diamond twill… Sounds like a re.seller who buys from these guys. I got mine direct at great prices, they do bulk as well if you can be patient and wait if they do not have enough in stock. on them to put the order together. Usually a couple of weeks for 10 or more. But well worth the wait and the blankets are great for cloaks. LOL. Here is the direct link. Shhh it's a big secret kept by their re-sellers. LOL. http://www.loricamos.vizz.pl/tkanieuk.html Sandy On 2/08/2010 10:17 PM, LEWINS SHELAGH wrote: > I … Continue reading Requoting diamond twill source
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
More possibly useful things from the lists, apologies for not getting who posted this: Have you seen the summary that Shelagh has already put online? http://www.shelaghlewins.com/reenactment/hedeby_apron/hedeby_apron.htm It really does cover about 99% of what Hägg says about apron dresses http://needleprayse.webcon.net.au/research/index.html Continue reading Hedeby apron dress
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
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
Just for my A&S record: I made Gregg a couple of tunics, according to what I learned in the early Rus class at Pennsic… Both tunics are linen – the under one is quite light, with red flat-felled seams, and the decorative hemstitching at neck and cuffs and shoulders. The over one has dark green flat-fell stitches, and white giant herringbone. I left the blue tunic's cuffs undecorated – they really should have something quite fancy on, but Gregg is unsure of what he wants. Refinement for later. The blip at the neck is the reverse side of a maker's … Continue reading Trade: Viking Rus tunics for a trunk
This will be an incomplete post, as I arrived on site too late for the first installment of Thora Sharptooth's class, but as the cloth in progress was very similar to the construction of my string skirt, I feel I can muddle through that on my own. Thora's page on the warp-weighted loom; if you're interested in Viking stuff at all, look at her filing cabinet. Wadmal is apparently 2/2 twill from Iceland. It's woven on a warp-weighted loom. We all got to do a bit of the process. When I got there, the loom (and Thora) looked like this: … Continue reading Wadmal class, Pennsic 2009