Mary Ostler » Daffodil http://www.maryostler.com Elizabethan Wood Butcher & Builder of Things Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:33:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Art of Seagirt http://www.maryostler.com/2010/08/art-of-seagirt/ http://www.maryostler.com/2010/08/art-of-seagirt/#comments Wed, 11 Aug 2010 08:53:02 +0000 DirtyMary http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1918 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 video of the great Seagirtian tapestry but have seem to have lost it (hence this post in draft for months). I love how they immortalize the winners of the tourney in banner form. I only wish Ulf’s banner had the castrated beaver on the device, instead of the monkey. Multiple daffodils on the  banners show how many times the individual won the tourney.

]]> http://www.maryostler.com/2010/08/art-of-seagirt/feed/ 0 Daffodil Carpet Sample http://www.maryostler.com/2010/03/daffodil-carpet-sample/ http://www.maryostler.com/2010/03/daffodil-carpet-sample/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:33:23 +0000 DirtyMary http://www.maryostler.com/?p=1867 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 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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