Category Archives: How-to

Tudor’s Pelican Necklace

Background In October, my friend’s peer contacted me and informed me that my friend, Mistress Adair, would receive her Pelican, first peerage, on Twelfth Night, a January event in Atlantia, which is like a prom.I could not be more honored to complete that task, but I needed some guidance. Where do I start? It wasContinue reading “Tudor’s Pelican Necklace”

Persona Pentathlon – Spindle

This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Spindle. A spindle is a tool to spin the wool to speed up the highly manual process. Usually, the unspun wool would be placedContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Spindle”

Persona Pentathlon – Buckwheat

Buckwheat with mushrooms and onions. Buckwheat is one of the most popular Wheats available in the European part of Eurasia. However, the Fagopýrum (Latin name for the plant) was probably domesticated in southwest China and then was adopted by northern tribes and was carried to the western land over 3000 years ago, before Slavs settledContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Buckwheat”

Persona Pentathlon – Paneva skirt

This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Paneva. Paneva is a skirt worn by town citizens during the warm summer month and during work around the house. Visual anthropology analysis showsContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Paneva skirt”

Clay Pendants as Cabochons and Main Pieces

This post concerns an ongoing experiment I started about a year ago when I decided to make a pendant for my apprentice sister’s ceremony representing our household name, “House Golden Thistle.” I have never worked with clay; the closest I got to clay-making was in elementary school when I worked with play dough. But isn’tContinue reading “Clay Pendants as Cabochons and Main Pieces”

Persona Pentathlon – Belt

This is the second post in the series about the townswoman clothes accessories. To read about the first post, please, click here. Belt. In the rich burials of pre-Mongolian Rus, the belts were repeatedly found. V.V. Hvoyko reports findings in the graves of the Middle Near-Dnieper (in Sharqi, in Belgorod) silk belts with Byzantine andContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Belt”

Viking Hood

This is my adapted variation of the Norwegian Skjoldehamn hood found in 1936. A pattern is a simplified form of Løvlid, D. H.’s research.  Production Before cutting them from the fabric, I sketched the progress and how the pieces shall align. I have used black 100% linen in both cases. After cutting the pieces out, I aligned them asContinue reading “Viking Hood”

Persona Pentathlon – Tunic

This blog post is a documentation adaptation of my entries for the Kingdom Arts and Science Festival 2023 persona pentathlon. The series will have 5 blog posts for each item separately. Tunic The tunic is the main clothes of eastern Slavs that men and women wore. The difficulty in researching the pattern is that manyContinue reading “Persona Pentathlon – Tunic”