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What does this say about the Chivalry?
A discussion started the other day in a friend’s LiveJournal about the … lack of transparency involved in elevation to the Peerages, particularly to the Order of the Laurel (in large part because the friend who started the discussion is herself a Laurel). I’m still attempting to work through my thoughts on the matter… it’s [...]
Alianor de Ravenglas. Device. Argent, a bend azure between two ravens, a chief sable.
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Matatias filius Lie Blunde. Device. Argent, a Hebrew letter “resh” and a chief sable.
This is clear of the device of Arthur of the Fen, Argent, a fleam sable and in dexter three gouttes de sang one and two, reblazoned elsewhere in this letter. [...]
I seem to have a huge pile of projects all in the works at once right now… not that I mind, it’s just a little crazy.
I’m sending an A&S display item to Crown even though we’re not going. That will be Matatias’ brown riding tunic – I had to do some mending on it last [...]
When you are consistently puncturing your finger with the eye end of the needle, it is time to stop sewing.
That said, the mauve gown now has a front gore & seam and I’ve attached both halves of the back gore and am in the process of sewing the back seam. Or I was until my [...]
As in the past 2 years, we are having a cavalcade of houseguests making their way from Points East to Pennsic. This year is the Most Houseguests Ever – we will have 3 folks here tomorrow night, 2 more Saturday night, 3 a week from Friday, and… I think 4 on Saturday the 9th. Oh, [...]
So many of us say that one reason we play in the SCA is for those magic moments, the ones when you’re transported to another time, another place. Whether you call this “The Dream” or something else, it’s a wonderful reminder of why we do what we do. I remember my first “magic moment”; it [...]
The plan for textile guild this month was for Irene to talk about patterning garments out of Patterns of Fashion and for me to talk about making late 12th – early 14th century clothes. When we asked for head counts it looked like there were going to be a bunch of people for her [...]
The textile guild of the Barony of the Rhydderich Hael inherited several huge boxes of fabric and sewing equipment from THL Caitlin Dierdre, who lost her fight with breast cancer late last year. Last night at guild meeting we did a preliminary sorting through the boxes and found yards and yards and yards of [...]
