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As I mentioned last week, the peerages are the highest awards in the Society for Creative Anachronism. The Order of the Laurel is for arts and/or sciences, indicating that someone has done years of research, artwork, and teaching of a medieval craft. Another good friend of mine was elevated last year to the Order of
I was asked to post the pattern for the dragon in the Norse-inspired Draco Invictus weave I made a few years ago. Draco Invictus (dragon unconquered/invincible) is the motto/war-cry of the Middle Kingdom, and I wove it in Viking runes along with two dragons. I made the pattern for the dragons myself, after being inspired
This beautiful weave of a red fret is made of silk and cotton. The white is a gorgeous silk generously given to me by Dillon ap Dillon, an amazing tablet weaver in the Barony of Cynnabar. The red fibers is crochet cotton size 10, purchased from JoAnn’s. I love the contrast of the shiny silk
I have shown many examples of my pick-up weaves on this site, but all of them have been in the baltic (basketweave) style. There are many different kinds of pick-up weaving, though I’ve only tried three of them. This post is on another version of pick-up inkle weaving: alternating pick-up, which I sometimes just refer
This post is all a bunch of random photos of inkle weaves I have made! Above is some of the Midrealm trim that I donated as largesse in January. A few years ago, I laid out my current stash of weaving on a blanket to take some photos of it (my photography skills have improved
Viking woven trim was often made of geometric patterns that changed on a whim. A love of symmetry and solid, repeating patterns did not much emerge until later Saxon times. Most (if not all) of these patterns were made through tablet weaving (also called card weaving) brocade, which is a time-intensive process that involves weaving
A lot of the weaving I have been doing lately is for the largesse tourney being run at Pentamere Twelfth Night, the Pentamere Dirty Dozen Donation Derby. I am making two sets of inkle weaving: one based on the Midrealm pale (white with a red stripe) and one based on the Barony of Cynnabar (red,
I am still slowly working on a set of inkle weaves based on all of the 19 Kingdoms of the SCA Known World. Here are two weaves based on AEthelmearc and Gleann Abhann. Kingdom of AEthelmearc AEthelmearc is located in central/western Pennsylvania, western New York, and West Virginia. The Pennsic War (officially between the East
The Quest for the Golden Seamstress is a really unique SCA event held in the Midrealm every spring. Most SCA events nowadays have the general structure of having various marshal activities all day (rapier, armored combat, archery, thrown weapons), alongside some A&S classes (Arts & Sciences), which wrap up with court, a feast, and then dancing.