Awhile ago I finally submitted a device. I’ve never had one before, and for a while I couldn’t really settle on any one thing. At the time I started working on it, I was beginning to focus more on my German persona than my Viking which I’ve had forever. After some advice and help from my Laurel and friends we… Read more »
One of the most challenging things to me when pursuing a project like this is trying to find the right components to achieve the look of the finished piece. I started out by checking Fire Mountain Gems (which I’ve gotten a lot of stuff from… probably too much…) and found quite a few things I thought would work for it. … Read more »
The more time I spend studying the golden gefrens the more I want to make it, obvs. It also occurred to me that if the headpiece is made from metal (most likely gold) it could pose a problem wearing it in regards to sumptuary laws. After a bit of deliberation with my friend Kisse, she gave me some confidence that… Read more »
While I was working on my hair accessories A&S entry, I started down yet another rabbit hole concerning the gefrens. I found an image on Germanrenaissance.net titled: “A scene of St.Clare of Assisi,1465-70” that shows a variety of hair accessories on the table to the right including a pair of Zöpfe, a mysterious headband type accessory and a gefrens. Now I feel like… Read more »
So I managed to finish up my Zöpfe for my second A&S entry at Magna Faire earlier this month. There was a wide variety of entry types, and some amazing work brought to the faire by artisans from all over the kingdom. While I tend to be super critical of my own work (I feel like a lot of people can… Read more »
While I’m still working on finishing my hair accessories A&S project, I figured I could put the first part of my walk-through on the Zöpfe (false braids). I’ll backtrack a bit to show how this stage of the project evolved over time. When I first started exploring this whole subject, I made my first attempts with cheaper materials while I worked… Read more »
When I started down this whole apprentice path I was super focused on my pouches and purses and I’ve been missing it a bit lately. I can only blame myself since I’ve made a change to my overall persona and have been working on fleshing that out, my pouches have kinda fallen to the wayside. I’ll try to do the… Read more »
Once I found a little more info concerning Gefrens, I was excited to get to work. I dug through my workroom to find some yarn I had stashed from my failed attempts at crocheting (if anyone is willing to try and teach me again I would gladly offer up a homemade cake or some cupcakes to do so). I managed… Read more »
Once I decided to move forward with my late period German persona, I needed to find the proper accessories and head coverings to go with the Swabian dress I had in the works. The dress is already finished and is in need of some minor pattern tweaking for its next incarnation. I found a few options back on the https://garbrelatedchaos.wordpress.com site… Read more »
Sooooo… when I first started in the SCA, way back in the day when I was but a mildly broke college student I was introduced to Viking and was hooked. That became my persona for many years after, and what I picked up again once I rejoined the SCA after a long hiatus. Well all that changed once I joined… Read more »