Mary Ostler

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These are the only images I have of the first two pavillions I made. The first one is made from a 11ft market umbrella. The walls are made out of cheap thin canvas, and the green accents are of dirt cheap broadcloth. Surprisingly large amount of room inside it. I had a full size twin [...]

I took a little day course on silk painting. It was taught by Mistress Agnes Cresewyke, a laurel in a local branch of the SCA. The original sample I made during the course (OR, a Purple Double headed cock) has long since disappeared in the murky depths of the sewing room. The following .jpg’s are [...]

For a very brief time, long ago, I was fighting heavy in the SCA. It required me making a lot of my own Armour.  This is the first shield I built. It was a curved heavy made of three pieces of skinply laminated together with a slight curve along the length.  On top of the [...]

This is the first Tudor house I built. It had to be modular, and the pieces could not exceed 4′ x 6′ in size (the size of the bed of my truck). The walls are all held together by two sets of hinges. The hinge pins were removable, making the thing portable. The gables were supported [...]

I built this weird contraption as a complete lark.  water is placed in the upper reservoir, and flows out of the copper tubes in the bottom of the reservoir, and pours directly over the internal waterwheel. The shaft the water wheel wheel spins on is hooked up to a fan blade. The bottom reservoir just [...]

I made this cooler for my medieval society. I was getting tired of trying to hide my old plastic Colman cooler under blankets. Having to go into the red cooler of doom, always bugged me at events. I try hard to have nothing overwhelming modern in plain view. So one day I when to the [...]

Tribute window I built in honor of a local SCA group. Using Copper Foil construction methods I attempted to make a semi-replica of a 10th century window that hangs in the Augsburg Cathedral. As I do not have access to a glass kiln, I used a Dremel with a diamond bit to etch out the [...]