Thamesreach, the heraldic shire
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abendgulesAnother lovely revel passed.
We fell short on the fencing front, but everyone attending seemed very happily engaged in stitching, discussing heraldry, looking through books, and trying their hands at calligraphy.
Our shire bunting is in need of an update - we haven't added any armory to it since Alaric and Nerissa arrived, so I thought it was time to add more. I cut out several Thamesreach escutcheons (shield shapes with blue Thamesreach fesses), and handed them out to Nesta, Arnaut, and Katherine - and Edith finished one on the day, and was well on her way to finishing her arms escutcheon as well.
Sir Vitus spent some time cutting out a most beautiful plum shot silk for a fighting surcoat(! seems wasted on fighting kit!) while opining on the state of the College of Heralds, and Lady Katherine finished a beautiful Elizabethan coat of red silk with black linen lining, which she modelled that evening with a new gown. Time well spent!
For Thamesreach folk: I have a few more 'sets' of shields cut out for those who want to add their arms to the shire bunting but you don't have to wait on me or anyone else - feel free to assemble your own from your own leftover linen and scrap fabric.
Current cut-out sizes are about 8x10" or 7x9"-ish, before assembly.
I don't think we'll have a new bunting string ready for Winchester, but we could have to ready for next revel, or for Thamesreach on Tour in Ware in July.
As ever, we ate extremely well. Special mention goes to Lord Thodoric who brought his own baked trencher, prepared from salt pastry.
We even managed three dances together, which was very satisfying, but very warming on a warm evening.
I think we totalled 18 people (includes 3 children), plus one baby in a bucket, with four people attending their very first revel.
We're blessed with a convivial and crafty shire, and I take great delight in attending each one.
...Of course, having just looked through![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
liadethornegge 's Double Wars pictures, I feel like Nordmark's A&S puts ours in the shade. Sigh. Wish I could have been there.
We fell short on the fencing front, but everyone attending seemed very happily engaged in stitching, discussing heraldry, looking through books, and trying their hands at calligraphy.
Our shire bunting is in need of an update - we haven't added any armory to it since Alaric and Nerissa arrived, so I thought it was time to add more. I cut out several Thamesreach escutcheons (shield shapes with blue Thamesreach fesses), and handed them out to Nesta, Arnaut, and Katherine - and Edith finished one on the day, and was well on her way to finishing her arms escutcheon as well.
Sir Vitus spent some time cutting out a most beautiful plum shot silk for a fighting surcoat(! seems wasted on fighting kit!) while opining on the state of the College of Heralds, and Lady Katherine finished a beautiful Elizabethan coat of red silk with black linen lining, which she modelled that evening with a new gown. Time well spent!
For Thamesreach folk: I have a few more 'sets' of shields cut out for those who want to add their arms to the shire bunting but you don't have to wait on me or anyone else - feel free to assemble your own from your own leftover linen and scrap fabric.
Current cut-out sizes are about 8x10" or 7x9"-ish, before assembly.
I don't think we'll have a new bunting string ready for Winchester, but we could have to ready for next revel, or for Thamesreach on Tour in Ware in July.
As ever, we ate extremely well. Special mention goes to Lord Thodoric who brought his own baked trencher, prepared from salt pastry.
We even managed three dances together, which was very satisfying, but very warming on a warm evening.
I think we totalled 18 people (includes 3 children), plus one baby in a bucket, with four people attending their very first revel.
We're blessed with a convivial and crafty shire, and I take great delight in attending each one.
...Of course, having just looked through
liadethornegge 's Double Wars pictures, I feel like Nordmark's A&S puts ours in the shade. Sigh. Wish I could have been there.
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Date: 2010-05-24 06:02 am (UTC)Fancy a trip to double wars next year? Tis time for ID to go en mass again.
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Date: 2010-05-24 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-05-24 09:22 am (UTC)I think if you added a nice text in your customary hand on that it will be a magnificent scroll in the end. But I haven't surpassed myself on it, really. It is quite a simple rendition of the Digby 36 style of illumination. It's just such a pretty original to start from you can hardly fail :)