WahaVahaBrouhaha
Soooo. Months and months ago at the last Tir Righ Coronet tourney held at the Albion fairgrounds, Viscountess Safiye al-Konstantiniyye and myself decided to set up a Turkish/middle eastern happy land. For lack of a better name we decided to call it WahaVahaBrouhaha. Between the two of us we managed to completely enclose a large picnic structure [...]
Intermission is over.
Hello all, I am back from a few months break from blogging. It was good to have a rest, and not worry about trying to document all the stuff I was doing. Well the hiatus is over, and its time to start blogging again. There will be a few old posts that will be posted soon, [...]
Nomadic Tent Types in the Middle East
I am so damn excited, its bordering on ludicrous. I got the book I ordered in the mail today. “Nomadic tent types in the Middle East” by Peter Alford Andrews. I previously had bought his academic thesis on Felt tents, and was blown away by the in-depth historical data he found. This new book is more on the Whats out there now [...]
Armor & the busy girl
I have been vary tardy at posting as of late. Mostly its been busy around here. Partially its internet sloth. I have my final post on the ouled nail almost ready to post, but I have a new project in the works that has bumped it back. I have decided to give Heavy fighting another [...]
Making Cheese (14-15th century soft cheese)
I recently got back from a house sitting stint. I always enjoy house sitting due to the fact I can cook whatever I want. While on this last gig, I tried my hand at making soft cheese. It was easy, tasty , and worth the effort. I liked making it enough I decided to make [...]
Turkish Carpet Project v1.7 The Math
I have the cartoon, I have a loom, I have the right amount of hedles (my order arrived a couple of days ago). Now I have to figure out how much material I will need to complete the rug, and how much of each color I will need to hand dye. Determining how much was [...]
Ouled Naïl Bedouin Tent v2.2 Wooden Bits & Rope
I had wanted to finish this tent in time for Tir Righ Investiture at the end of August. I am now confident that I will be able to do a test run at SYGC this weekend. This works out better, as I will have a chance to work out some bugs before investiture. I will [...]
Art of Seagirt
I was able to day trip earlier this year to the Barony of Seagirt’s annual Daffodil tourney. I posted about the event, but have had this post sitting in the draft folder for months. Its just a series of images of some of the art the Seagirtians had kicking around the site. I had a [...]
Ouled Naïl Bedouin Tent v2.1 The Other Tedious Stuff
I finished the 18ft of unravelling canvas. What a pain. My Fingers are numb. It will look awesome, but I highly encourage everyone to skip this step and just sew the canvas directly to the wooden hangers.