Silk Banners
When I had made the cone of shame, I had made a banner finial for the top of it. If you have a banner finial… you need a banner. I had originally taken a workshop on the subject taught by Mistress Agnes, and had played with it a bit since then… but this was going to be [...]
Daffodil Carpet Sample
I got to go to Daffodil Tourney this year. I’ll be posting soon about the annual Seagirtian event, but I thought I do a quick post on my entry into the A&S tourney.
The contest was “items inspired in some way by the theme “daffodil”. Since I only decided to go to the event the weekend [...]
Table Trestles
I entered the Tir Righ A&S competition this year. I had originally wanted to enter a set of conjecturally accurate trestle table. Everything was going swimmingly until disaster happened. While rushing from one theatre at the Vancouver International Film Festival to another, I fell and broke my ribs. The pain associated in trying to mortise holes into hard aged oak was [...]
Tir Righ A&S Championship 2009
Tir Righ A&S Championship is over for this year. We had three full competitors, and three single entry entrants. I was a varied lot of items to judge this year. Polychrome leather work to Astronomical Navigation, to bone carving. It takes a lot of gumption to enter these contest and I appauld them all… I know what its like [...]
Tir Righ Fall Tourney 2009 A&S Display
A couple of weekends ago at the Tir Righ Fall Tourney, Misress Agnes Cresewyke arranged to have a last minute A&S display. We had 7 people drop off items ranging from bone carved earspoons to Japanese tamari balls. Much discussion was had, and I would call it a success.
Mistress Agnes, Uilliam mac Fearchar mhic Gille Aindrias, and Constance [...]
Pole Lathe Class
In 2005 I taught a Pole Lathe class up at Cinton war. It was only possible to teach this class up at Clinton due to the multi-day event left enough time to set it up, and the property owners permission to cut down multiple poplar trees for the spring poles. I never took images of [...]
A.T. War 2009
This last weekend was the second annual AT War (Avacal/Tir Righ). Approx 400 people gathered in Clearwater BC to party with the buffalo.
two words = Awesome Event.
We had a large contingent of royals from kingdom, and principalities. The streets were lined with a large amount of period pavilions. THUA (Their Highness University of Avacal) session [...]
Leather Shoes
Back in March I attended a shoe making workshop. It was a one day course, where we recieved enough supplies to finish 1 full set of shoes each. I had initialy all but finished the shoes within a week off taking the course, but then the turned bedframe project took over my life. Now that the [...]
February Woodworking Display
Last February, Mistress Agnes and her Merry Minions (aprenti) ran a event that combined a Newcomers workshop, A&S competion, and the Day of Dance. My job was to organize and run a one day A&S display. Everything went reasonably well, but I do admit to forgeting to take images of everyones displays including my own. Well, [...]
