Another autumn has come and there's been many things happening over the last year, many of them terrible (gestures broadly at the world) but a lot of small (and big), good things have happened within my small group that have kept me occupied for the past year. My Laurel won crown, again. This was an interesting, and vastly different crown tournament because the previous king and queen had needed to step down and Æthelmearc needed to hold two crown tourneys on a single d

We have made it to the loom. The process involved a lot of threading and true crime podcasts, but I'm finally at the weaving stage. So....

The Barony of St. Swithin's Bog in our Kingdom hosts a 3 day event in July every year called, very creatively, Bog 3 Day. This year the...

*Note: A longer, pdf document of this project with attached resources in available in the Research Section This was a fun project for Ice...

Stone spindle whorls from Jorvik, care of the York Archaeological Trust With the bone spindle whorl out of the way, I turned my...

Clockwise from top left: bone, soapstone, soapstone, soapstone, sandstone, chalk So I'm lucky enough to live in an environment and in a...

Layer 4 involved a bunch of accessories. The simplest was a veil, which was just a length of plain linen that I tried to dye but mostly...

This is going to be a big photo dump, because things got done, but not written up, during the Thanksgiving/ Christmas rush. Layer 2: A...

November's mission was to get my new loom warped and my apron fabric woven. The loom is a 48" Ashford Rigid Heddle. Step 1 was to...