Mary Who?
Ostler…. Mary Ostler.
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Mary Ostler is a resident of the Barony of Lions Gate, in the Principality of Tir Righ, in the North Western section of the Kingdom of An Tir, all within the confines of the Society of Creative Anachronism.
She is Apprentice to the Most Excellent Mistress Agnes Cresewyck
She founded the Gadgetry Guild of Tir Righ, and then drove it into the ground through embesling the guilds coffers (canadian tire money… and embeselment was written into the guild bylaws).
She is fond of woodworking…especially turning on both the pole lathe and electric. Taught a class at Clinton War a few years back. Four pole lathes set up side by side….(It was little slice of awesomeness)
She is a cheapskate when it comes to buying materials.
She is fond of Gin, Stouts, Dark Lagers, Dogs, Horology, Ales, Chemistry, Lambrics, Horses when served on a platter, and building things that don’t really need to be built.
She is so very accident prone, and tends to trip on skirts even when at a mid calf level, that she wears mens garb.
She was born in tonbridge, Kent in 1573, and has survived three outbreaks of the plague, a severe bee sting attack, and is a widower.
Can be seen at summer events in a Tudor House on wheels (period concept, have the illumintion to prove it)
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You can get in contact with me by emailing me at 42vince@gmail.com.
Please to see there is another guild out their interested in the same items, however My lord Kasper and myself concentrate more on Norse Man caving (relief carving) and Elizabethan Furniture joinery. I believe that you may be the same person, that the A&S deputy of guilds may had mention, back at the August Investiture, in forming this guild. If so we are willing to talk to you about merging the two together.
Thankyou
Lady Christiana Elizabeth Constable
hi Mary…we’re interested in your Bedouin tent experiment…did it work and how long did it take? we need one built for a project we’re currently working on, and we have very short time frame. It needs to look as authentic as possible (goatskin lookalike?) and we are in Vancouver. Any advice or suggestions?? look forward to hearing from you…Shirley
I made the Bedouin over four days. Thats a 3-4 hours everyday, but I am sure I could make one now in a day if I had too.
I summed up the experience in a series of posts.
http://www.maryostler.com/past-works/bedouin-tent/
I think the things I would do differently next time are, I would use a thicker canvas, It would be black (the white canvas just ain’t right), It would make it at least ~12×22′ (the current one is more 9×22), and the roof beam should either be bent to make a nice Berber round roof angle, or no roof beam to look more like a tribal nomadic Bedouin tent. The material on the original was a fairly loose roughly made fabric. Rain wasn’t a huge issue in the desert, Canvas for Canada is the way to go.
The original tents are all goat hair woven wool fabric. I don’t think goat skin would look right for Bedouin. Roman army tents yes, certain yurt like structure…leather maybe… Bedouin goat hair, no leather.
Specific questions are easier to answer.