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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 my first banner. Mostly just images after the jump

Stretcher built out of stuff from the scrap bin.

Decided to free hand the turnip. It ended up a little large. All hail the mutant turnip.

The stripy edge bit was all haphazardly drawn. Each segment is a totally different length.

My Motto is a bit of Dog Latin… Make my Day Punk.

You can just make out the pencil lines on the upper part of the banner

Final product with the edges all sewn up

The wonder twin wanted me to show her how to make a banner. I am not a particularly good teacher, but I figured… its the  wonder twin…. Gotta give it a go.

I couldn’t stick around till completion, but I think it is going to look FABU!

• August 11, 2008 -- Silk Experiment (0)

The contest was “items inspired in some way by the theme “daffodil”. Since I only decided to go to the event the weekend before, I decided to do a quick carpet sample piece. The daffodil design is from a blanket I found online. It was a grid pattern so it adapted well. The tourney is in its 33 year, and my heraldic obsession & mascot is the turnip named Ash.  Design done, I warped up the porto-loom with  52 threads (4 threads for the bound edges each side, and 22 sets of threads for the knots). I should have done the sides in a different color, as they just blend with the knots right now.

I still am having some issues with the edge binding. Will be working on that in my next mini project.

The weft threads were cotton sewing thread (2 shoots).

I had every color I needed except a nice yellow. The gold wool I had just didn’t seem right. I did two skeins of wool. One pre-mordant in alum, and one with no mordant. The dye stuff is Turmeric and its 100%wof. ( I think you could use a lot less considering the amount of slug on the bottom of the pot. I also added 1 tbs of vinegar to try to get it brighter yellow.

Cooked it at a low heat for 30minutes.

The large skein is the pre-mordant Alum one, the one on the right on mordant. The color is just about the same.

I feel kind of stupid though. So many of these A&S things are little throw away things put in place for something to do while the fighters fight. I didn’t document it at all. I had the cartoon for the design and a few notes jotted down in pencil. Well four judges sat down with principality A&S judging forms, and the judging was pretty bad. They all seemed to like what I had did alot, but the lack of documentation was noted down ALOT….

I hunted down the organizer to thank her and the judges, and apologized for wasting their time. No Documentation… Bad Apprentice… No Cookie for You!

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For what is is worth

Table Trestle Documentation

• September 11, 2009 -- Radio Silence (0)

A huge wack load of images after the jump

Constance de Montbard had the single highest scoring item in the competion. She was called before court and told that she should learn what she did at the principality level and take it to Kingdom. This was a single entry she wasn’t trying for Champion this time around.

Dr. Carus enter the full competion with a sun navigation dial, and a near horizon sun stone sight gauge (I could be wrong I didn’t write it down, but it was a cool optical effect), and a cloak that turns into a tent (also an idea I want to play with).

Lady Argolia entered the championship with bone carving, pewter casting, and a full norse outfit including leather shoes.

Aelana de Cordova was the declared champion of Tir Righ for her entry of Icon Painting, Research paper (bookbinding/embroidery – Not sure what the exact entry was for…too busy socializing.

Elspeth enter and Tudor embroidered pouch. Didn’t get a chance to talk to her…bad Mary.

My entry was a conjecturably accurate table trestle. I didn’t get to display the finished product so I made due with the prototypes I had already made. Judging went as I thought it would. I know writing is difficult for myself, and presenting a piece is also not my forte, but I know what I am interested in, so fielding questions was easy.

Judges busy tabulating the scores.

Not a musician, but I really love this merchant/musician. He always has such nice stuff.

A heraldry consulting booth was up. I cna have a semi of turnips as a badge…woot.

Apprentice monkey was in attendance. Nameless people sewed a button on as a bellybutton. Monkey is representing Allvero, and Ava.

Lord Adam Fairamay had a few inlayed inkle loom at the event as well as a small wooden cart.

Mistress Agnes taught an 14th century finishing class. including how to tablet weave an edging.

Maille Rennick taught a basket weaving class (that I didn’t get the take <pout>)

Sister Apprentice Aleinor Sanz-Argent was placed in the order of etoile d’argent.

Maille Rennick was given a long over due AoA. Woot for Lady Maille.

Finally I was thrilled to find Mistress Elizabeth Braidwood had brought Medlars. Its an old english fruit that needs to rot before you eat it. Also called Open Arse fruit. I once went looking for that kind of fruit, but never found any. I now have a source… Yaa Me.

I will be uploading my documentations and building post in the next few weeks. I have to due line drawing of some of the documentation images  by request of the owner.

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Mistress Agnes, Uilliam mac Fearchar mhic Gille Aindrias, and Constance de Montbard hanging out at the display. I forgot to take a photo of my entry. Agnes is sitting on my triangle back stool, and the german folding stool is on the table.

Constance displayed her work on making original art punchs based closely on existing examples. Some wonderful gloves, and buckles were also displayed.

Halima al-Rakkasa displayed some on going cardweaving. Based on an exsiting pattern, with just a color change difference.

I adore wooden tablets… Particle wooden things just are so…awesome.

Halima also displayed some sprang woven bags.

Lady Argolia dispalyed bone and horn carving, and some very nice belt castings

The strangest entry was also entered by Lady Argolia.. A Bone carved Ear Spoon. No one seemed to want to pick it up…

Maeda no Kiku Mariko showed off her Temari balls, shuttle cock paddles, and her Orgami Skills.

Morweena of House Desdecardo displayed her leather pouch with tablet woven trim dyed with Madder and acorns. Mistress Agnes entered her St. Brigette’s coif, and a work in progress pouch based on an existing period example.

Not a bad display considering it was a last minute activity.

Yaaa for the artisans!

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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 the set-up but thanks Isabelle de Lacey I finally have pictures to share. This picture shows the set up of all four lathes (one is hiding behind the bodgers lathe~yellow lathe).

I found a super deal on sets of 10 turning tools for $8. I bought four sets, so I didn’t have to share my good tools with the students. They are cheap, and pretty brutal, and are inconstant need of sharpening. That said I still use the parting and side skews from the set. Once they get too short from sharpening, I just grab another from the sets. Please ignore the shoes and the nasty hair. I had been camping for almost two weeks at this point and the period shoes were killing me.

One of my students hard at work. This was my primary lathe for quite a while. It originally started out as a trestle table I built. One day after removing the table top I struck me as an easy conversion to a lathe. Make poppets, and away you go.

The lathe I am working on is my uber cheap lathe. Using a sawhorse as my base I screwed an upright into the horse. Sticking out of the upright is a furniture hanger that I filled the one end to a point. Another upright also had a  the filed down hanger, but this one got clamped into place with c-clamps. You place the blank between the uprights and lash (or clamp) the uprights tight. I included this kind of lathe to demostrate that you can build a lathe using very little money or tools.

My tudor house was the base for the class. The sun shade was built out of the remains of my original tudor house and a couple of 2×4′s

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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 had a large amount of interesting classes. The Tacky Tahiti erik party was packed and a big slice of awesome sauce.

There was a Siege A&S contest. You had to use two random items from the big pile of stuff, and at least one item from the site itself.  ”No hunting of the buffalo allowed “. There was a large amount of entries into the contest including Alchemy from trees (Tar & Lye), Popsicle stick Trebuchet, Plague Baby..etc. We had four entries from my encampment. Mistress Agnes made a nine man morris board/bag, Mariko made a paper hawk kite, Maille made wooden bead rosary, and I entered an AT war banner. The A&S point went to Tir Righ for my war banner (they really liked the use of the theme logo, but found my stitchery very rudimentary….LOL)

Mistress Agnes finally was recognized for her constantly inspiring dedication to persona related stuff. The comment “Like she just walked out of an illumination” was used, and I couldn’t agree more. She makes a great addition to the Order of the Carp.

Tacky Tahiti erik party was great.  Strangely the party lead to a weird project I am going to be working on. A series of articles on “Douche bags from History”. My vote is for Martin Luther for vandalizing church property.

Took two classes with THUA this event

I took an introduction to tablet weaving class. It was the method were you attach the work to your belt, and you maintain the tension. This is a method I don’t seem to have much of an aptitude for. Even the teacher said it would be better if I made a frame for the weaving. I seem to want to rock and shift alot while weaving causing change in tension in the weft.

I also took a class on scrimshaw etching taught by Mistress Kate (Who has the greatest “I own the world” swagger). I made a small tablet with an etched turnip, Two headed cock, and the motto “Not My Monkey”. I’ll find an image of it after I unpack (and find where I put it).

I also walked the perimeter of the buffalo fences and gathered a bunch of molted fleece. Cleaned it last night, and just waiting for it to dry.

I can’t wait till next year.

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Not to bad for a first set of  shoes. The blue innner soles are from a set of old runners. Those with a thick felt inner make these my most comfortable shoes I own.

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