A&S Activities

We will have A&S classes, as well as a display. If you are interested in teaching a class, please email Richard Heyworth, the Carolingia 50 A&S Coordinator, with a quick title and description of the class you'd like to teach. He can be reached at 252326@members.eastkingdom.org

Please also reach out if you are interested in displaying an A&S Project.

It's so exciting to imagine that our Barony has been active and engaged for fifty years, and we hope you'll join us in making our celebration incredible.

Schedule of A&S Activities:

A&S 1

11am - 12pm Sugawara no Naeme - Heian Get Ready With Me

12pm -1 pm Sugawara no Naeme - Pilgrimage and Power

1pm - 2pm Donovan Shinnock - Principles of Guards and Counter Guards

2pm - 3pm Katla of Viborg - Inkle Weaving: Warping Your Loom

3pm - 4pm Wynflæd aet Hamtunscire - Quick and Easy Roman Dress

A&S 2

11am - 12pm Collette d'Avignon - Diapering With Michelino da Besozzo

12pm -1 pm Etain ingen Ut Neill - Beginning Blackwork

**Limit of 10 students, $5 material cost

1pm - 2pm Anéžka Liška z Kolína - Intro to Heraldry

2pm - 4pm Timothy of Sherwood - Beginning Period-ish Feather Work for Fletching

**Limit of 3 students, $6 material cost

A&S 3

11am - 12pm Donato Favro - Basic Embroidery Stitches

12pm -1 pm Richard Heyworth - Recorder Jam Session

1pm - 2pm Donato Favro - Forging Clay: Introduction to Blacksmithing

2pm - 4pm Athena’s Thimble Panel

A&S 4

11am - 12pm Ella de Caleys - Intro to Hand-Sewing (workshop)

12pm -1 pm Timothy of Sherwood - Beginning Finger Loop Braiding

**Limit of 3 students, $1 material cost

1pm - 2pm Ella de Caleys - Intro to Forestry

2pm - 3pm L. Severin Schröder - How to Make a BARA Measuring Tape

3pm - 4pm Gavin Kent - Performing Basics

Display Space

9:30am - 11am A&S Consultation Sign Ups and Display Setup

10am - End Carolingian History Display

11am - 4pm A&S Display

11am-4pm A&S Consultations

11am - 4pm Heraldic Consultations with Mistress Alys Mackyntoich

4pm - Court Carolingian Former & Current Seneschal Meet Up

Class descriptions:

Katla of Viborg: Inkle Weaving

Inkle weaving is used to craft bands of trim or tapes which can be used for a variety of purposes. This class will focus on modern inkle loom anatomy, pattern reading, loom setup, and how to weave an inkle band. Looms will not be provided. Please bring a loom if you want to set up a warp during the class. Crochet cotton will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Sugawara no Naeme: Heian Get Ready With Me

Join me as I get ready for the day using modern theatrical makeup to achieve a Heian Japanese Noblewoman impression. It’s possible to dress by yourself, let me show you how.

Sugawara no Naeme: Pilgrimage and Power

Explore the who, what, when, where, why and how of the pilgrimages taken by noblewomen of the Heian period of Japan.

Etain ingen Ut Neill: Beginning Blackwork

Beginning blackwork is for those who have no experience or want to refresh their skills. We will cover a brief history and a small project. Please bring scissors. Materials will be provided.

Wynflæd aet Hamtunscire: Quick and Easy Roman Dress

You will learn how to make a Roman-style dress out of a sari. Please bring your own sari.

Ella de Caleys: Intro to Hand-Sewing (workshop)

Never held a sewing needle? Not sure how to knot it and get started? Join Lady Ella de Caleys for an Intro to Hand-Sewing. Drop in to learn how to sew a simple drawstring bag.

Timothy of Sherwood: Finger-Loop Braiding

Learn, basic, finger loop braiding and take home a braid you will make. This process is period and yields cordage that can be used for: belts, bracelets, necklaces, laces and more. We will be doing three strand as it is the fastest and easiest, to learn. Full rainbow of colors can be employed. Students need bring naught but are allowed to bring note taking materials and to record video/audio provided doing so does not overly impede class progress.

Timothy of Sherwood: Fletching

Avoid buying, expensive, modern, tools for cutting flights as you learn how to cut flights with knives and/or scissors. Make your arrows more period (and prettier!) that have flights that will not peel up when you shoot through things or get snagged on things in the grass. No more wasting feathers when a shaft breaks. Quickly and easily, remove worn and/or damaged feathers without damaging your shafts. Design your own flight profiles for more personal arrows. We will also be employing hide glue (which is widely known in period) . Each student will take home a dowel segment (about 6" long) that they have whipped three flights on and 2 flights they cut from full length.

Members of the Carolingian Order of the Moon have offered challenges to the populace! Details below. If you have questions about the challenges, please reach out to the person offering it. We are happy to put you in touch if you do not have contact info - please email the A&S Coordinator.

List of Challenges

‘I Can Paint that Small!’ Lady Aaradyn Ghyoot

Fiore’s Hand Sewing/Embroidery Challenge

Ysabel’s Documentation Challenge

Sugawara’s Moon-and-Japan Challenge

‘Tasha’s Rule #2’

‘Life Hacks, SCA Edition’ Tasha Medvedeva

‘Make the Hand Match the Words’ Mistress Eleanor Catlyng and Magister Gunthorm Dengir

Serene’s Prop Performance Challenge

Madman’s Dream Dance Challenge - Lady Serene Brilliant

I Can Paint That Small! - Lady Aaradyn Ghyoot

Books that were carried all the time for prayer, or even books that were to be held and read on a daily basis were not large. Materials went further if the book is small, and thousands of small books exist for scribal inspiration. I challenge you to create an illuminated or illustrated capital that matches one for one the source manuscript.

The Challenge:

Identify a manuscript with a width and height no larger than 6" x 8".
Find a page with just an illuminated capital. We're not looking for whole page illumination with this challenge.
Create just the capital on the page at a size that matches with the sizing you usually do for a scroll. If you're not an active scribe, choose a size that seems reasonable to you - for instance, double or one and a half times larger than the manuscript size.
Then create the capital at the same size it is in the manuscript. It's not necessary to do the calligraphy as well, but please leave space on the page for it.
The writeup: Write a little about the challenges you had with the piece, what methods you used to get to the 1:1 sizing, the pros and cons of the exercise, and what you might do differently if you tried this challenge again.

Notes: I'll give you a head start on finding a manuscript! The British Library has an excellent and easy to search database, and as a plus the first page you see after searching and choosing a manuscript has all the sizing information at the bottom of the page. You'll see, at the bottom, two sizes given: Page Size and Text Area. You'll have to do a little math to determine what size the capital letter is, but I have faith in you! Measurements are in millimeters, not inches, but rulers come in mm too.

Hand Sewing/ Embroidery Challenge - Baronessa Fiore Leonetta Bardi

I challenge Carolingians to handsew something if they are not usually a handsewist or embroider something if they do not normally embroider.

Documentation Challenge - Lady Ysabel da Costa

Show me your documentation project -- one where the documentation is all (or most) of

the product. Here's your chance to show your research that did not produce a shiny

object! Music, history, economics, math or science, you name it -- any topic is welcome.

Please send me a copy of your work no later than Sept. 1, so I will have time to read it

carefully before the event.

Lady Ysabel da Costa

213116@members.eastkingdom.org

Thematic Inspiration Challenge - Lady Sugawara Naeme

Using the moon as inspiration, create something using a Japanese art or science.

Some examples: A poem or painting or astronomical table, anything that centers on the moon and Japan.

Challenges issued by Tasha Medvedeva kennari, OM, Moon, OL

"Tasha's Rule #2: If You're Gonna Make It, Make It Pretty"

Show us how you embellish the things that you make. Preference is given to documentable period embellishments; please show your sources (we love good sources). Don't worry if you can't afford or can't find the exact thing you need to make the thing pretty. Make the substitution, and tell us how and why you arrived at that solution.

Life Hacks: SCA Edition

We love a good hack, whether it's a sewing technique, an efficient way to pack for an event, or storage solutions for period camping. Show us your favorite hack(s), tell us what inspired them, and why it's your tried and true. Plausibly period preferred.

Make the Hand Match the Words - Mistress Eleanor Catlyng and Magister Gunðormr Dengir

Basic challenge: Using a piece of period text, calligraph it in a hand/script appropriate to the time and place of the text. Examples might include “Some stanzas of Chaucer in a late 14th C English Cursive” or “Bede in an early Insular”

Advanced challenge: Compose a text in a specific style, then write it in a hand/script appropriate to the time and place of that text. An example might be “Several stanzas of terza rima in an early 14th C Italian hand” or “16th C English legal document in a secretary script”. Note that for this challenge, composing in modern English, even if the original was in another language, is perfectly acceptable.

Citation requirement:

The text source (e.g. Canterbury Tales, Chaucer) or reference (e.g. in the style of an Elizabethan sonnet)
The calligraphic (and illumination if applicable) exemplar (e.g. The Ellesmere Manuscript, https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/ellesmere-manuscript )

If you are interested in the challenge, but need help finding a source, either textual or calligraphic, the issuers would be delighted to help.

A Madman’s Dream Dance Challenge - Lady Serene

Interpret through dance a classic Persian Story; Nezami Ganjavi’s (1141 - 1209) a Madman’s Dream aka Leyli and Majnun; a love story older than Romeo and Juliet by 1000 years.

Persian and Turkish Prop Performance Challenge - Lady Serene

Inspiration from paintings of Turkish and Persian dancers performing with percussion or a prop – Take inspiration from artwork of Turkish, Egyptian or Persian dancers and perform for us your interpretation of the dance. Inspiration can be taken from the paintings provided below or one of your choosing. You may pick from any of several hand held items as seen in various paintings: chalparras, finger snaps, spoons, frame drums, finger cymbals, teapot and cup, wine bottle and cup. Pick music that will accompany you (we will have music if you prefer to improv) and dance for us. Costuming to fit the painting that inspired you is encouraged. The pictures provided as examples are primarily from Persian miniatures of court and dance.

Time will be set aside in the Middle Eastern Dance schedule for challenge entries.

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