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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”

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 – 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”

Evolution of the Slavic persona – the beginning

This post begins my ample research and travels through the thicket of previous works and findings that often contradict each other. I will try to understand where Slavs came from, why the government formation was so different for all of them, who they were influenced by, and many other questions I would like to uncoverContinue reading “Evolution of the Slavic persona – the beginning”

East Slavs Towels

Introduction Quite some time ago, I was challenged with a task – create towels for a knight’s vigil that a historically accurate for the future knight persona – Rus Woman, XII century. This request came from a good person for a good person, and I certainly did not want to disappoint them. However, I hadContinue reading “East Slavs Towels”

History of Roman Empire for Dummies from Dummy

Funding of Rome The entire world uses Latin letters. Half of the world speaks Latin-based languages. Their art inspired the renaissance. Most of their scientific discoveries either lived too long or are still used as axioms. During the Roman Empire, most of the civilized world was included within their borders. Pax Romana (the roman world)Continue reading “History of Roman Empire for Dummies from Dummy”

Spanish Royal Outfits

Overview Continue talking about the big project for Their Royal Highnesses. since their themed reign is focused on the Spain XIV century, I was up to the challenge to make matching outfits for them along with accessories. I have chosen to make two sets of clothes, the same tunic pattern for His Highness and differentContinue reading “Spanish Royal Outfits”

Roman Royals outfits

Overview Roman empire. Rich, broad empire. when professors at University gave us the lectures of emperors and generals, I sat just like a child listening to nighttime stories. Coming to reenactment, you notice how much Roman culture was influenced by different world trends and how they influenced them. In this project, I took a mixContinue reading “Roman Royals outfits”