Pentathlon entry KASF 2016

Below are my notes for pentathlon entries at KASF 2016, My goal was to do a baltic lady from skin out.  the sub pages are what I actually put into the competition.

A 10th Century Baltic Woman (a Latvian Viking) 

By Marian le Red (aka Marion Campbell) from the Barony of Windmasters Hill

My persona (for this pentathalon) is the wife of a Latvian trader or Semigalian trader from the 10th Century. In Latvia at that time, there was a large Viking influence. My persona would be wealthy but still responsible for all her basic needs such as clothing and food. So the items that I am entering are based on my daily life.

Here is an example of what a Semigalian woman would have looked like according to the Joniskis Museum of Histoy and Culture. The second picture is a current Latvian woman re-creating historical dress.

For this pentathalon, I have chosen to make items that were found in archeological digs at grave sites or near the graves. All of these are items that I could have buried with or would have been found in the local town sites.  I have made a glass, a head dress, an underdress, and one of the most important tools of the time, a loom and weights.

1) The Glass: This glass design is a common design in the Baltic area. There are many examples in the museums of glasses of this type. I chose to re-create one that is an Anglo-Saxon design that was located in a grave in Sweden. Glasses such as this were used daily and traded across the Baltic.

2) The Underdress: The under dress is based off a find in Grave 56 in Luistari, Finland (which is the largest Iron Age grave site in Finland) and is called the Euro Dress. I hand sewed the dress out of linen. The only changes I made to the historic pattern were needed to have it fit for my size and shape.              

3) The loom and weights: This was my first attempt at the warp weight loom. I made the loom and the weights. This project is still in process and is a tale of what not to do. The loom was a major tool that in this time and area. Women made all sorts of textiles on these looms, including blankets and clothing.

4) The Head Dress: Latvian women, especially the Semilgallion women, loved jewelry. Spiral designs were very popular. My head dress is made of worked copper and utilizes these spiral designs.

For more information on these projects, please see the detailed documents.

Persona pentathlon entry notes.

1.      Object

a.      Category

                                                              i.      Sub category

b.      Supporting docs

c.       Process

2.      Euro Dress

a.       Category 2: beadwork, clothing accessories (including belts, pouches, and fans), clothing/costume (600-1100, 1101-1350, 1351-1450, 1451-1600, or non-European), hats, knitting, nålbinding, knotted work, lacemaking, needlework (counted thread or free form)

                                                              i.      clothing/costume (600-1100,

b.      docs

                                                              i.      http://pdf.thepdfportal.net/PDFFiles/64366.pdf

                                                            ii.      https://www.academia.edu/4008784/Ancient_clothing_in_Latvia_7.-17_century._Lat

                                                          iii.      https://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/.../QA+Finnish+Dress+Project.Final.pdf

                                                          iv.      http://www.holyort.net/projects/patterns/underdress/underdress.html

                                                            v.      http://www.eura.fi/upload/matkailu/prehistoric_eura.pdf

c.       Hand sewn and patterned Euro dress

                                                              i.      Pattern with the help of margert woosley

1.      Draw pattern and put in how we cut it to make it wide enough

                                                            ii.      Stiches based on the Harjofernes finds since it was close.

1.      Running stich with a foldered over seam and then whip stiched down

2.      Next had a flat feld seam that does not tend to stand up to wear

                                                          iii.      Pictures of process see facebook to grab

                                                          iv.      Why Euro dress, to hold brochess and other jewelry better by not having seams in the shoulders but above the breast where the brooches would be less stress on the fabric.

3.      Warp weighted loom

a.       Category 6: armor, chain mail, blacksmithing, jewelry smithing, iron work, tool making, casting, leather work, wood carving and construction, making musical instruments

                                                              i.      Wood construction?

b.      Doc and PDF and links

                                                              i.      Table-top Loom Plans email from fiadnata@dnaco.net on Aug 15 2015

                                                            ii.      http://www.academia.edu/1488040/Celtic_Clothing_During_the_Iron_Age-_A_Very_Broad_and_Generic_Approach

                                                          iii.       

c.       Full size warp weighted loom

                                                              i.      Pattern was a mock up from the table sized loom by Fiadnata

                                                            ii.      Added 3 shed bars with a place for a 4th so that the height was not an issue

                                                          iii.      Used 2x4’s and 1x? to make the pieces with cvloset rods for the fabric bar and the shed bars, pegged with 5/8 dowel and ¼ dowl

                                                          iv.      Used wood chisels to make morder holes in the bar that then added pegs in to hold the shed bar

4.      Loom weights

a.       Category 3: ceramics, enameling, glass blowing, lampworking, lapidary, mosaic, pottery, stained glass

                                                              i.      Pottery/ ceramics

b.      Docs and PDF

                                                              i.      http://www.academia.edu/12880393/SHAPE_OF_THINGS._UNDERSTANDING_A_LOOM_WEIGHT_-_Linda_M%C3%A5rtensson_Marie-Louise_Nosch_and_Eva_Andersson_Strand

                                                            ii.      http://kaleeb.galtham.org/pdf/loomweights.pdf

                                                          iii.      http://www.ceramicstoday.com/cones.htm

c.       Process

                                                              i.      Used cone 06 brown seramics clay from the hobby shop high sand content. Choose a cone 06 since it was fired at around 2000 degrees the temp of a good wood fire.

                                                            ii.      Made doughnut shapped weights posted to facebook and was pointed at another document for weights

                                                          iii.      Made flater weights with a hole at the top versus the middle since they shoud swng pass each other easier and stay top up when tied to the warp

                                                          iv.      Dried in a hot spot (2nd floor of the garage)

                                                            v.      Plan to fire in a wood/ saw dust fire for  a few hours.

5.      Balck walnut die!!!

a.       Category 1: bookbinding, calligraphy, drawing, illumination, painting, papermaking, pigments & inks, sculpture

                                                              i.      , pigments & inks

b.      Doc links, and pdf

                                                              i.      https://www.cs.arizona.edu/patterns/weaving/webdocs/mnm_mt29.pdf

                                                            ii.      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut

                                                          iii.       

6.      Head dress for finish outfit

a.       Category 4: basket weaving, brewing & vintning, cooking, dyeing, furniture making, herb craft, soap making, spinning, toys & games, weaving (full-sized fabrics or narrow bands)

                                                              i.      Weaving

b.      Category 6: armor, chain mail, blacksmithing, jewelry smithing, iron work, tool making, casting, leather work, wood carving and construction, making musical instruments

                                                              i.      jewelry smithing,

c.       doc and pDF and links

                                                              i.      https://www.academia.edu/4008784/Ancient_clothing_in_Latvia_7.-17_century._Lat      pg 60/61

                                                            ii.      http://swordmaster.org/2012/05/13/ob-odnom-tipe-pogrebalnyh-golovnyh-uborov-u-yuzhnyh-severyan-v-konce-x-xi-vv.html

                                                          iii.      https://www.academia.edu/4296979/The_possible_reconstruction_of_rich_Semigallian_woman_s_headdress

7.      Glass drinking vessal

a.       Category 3: ceramics, enameling, glass blowing, lampworking, lapidary, mosaic, pottery, stained glass

                                                              i.      https://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/6915382025/in/photostream/

                                                            ii.      http://www.fjoelskylda.de/realia/glas.html

8.      Glass linen smoother

a.       Category 3: ceramics, enameling, glass blowing, lampworking, lapidary, mosaic, pottery, stained glass

                                                              i.      ps://www.pinterest.com/pin/36028865741079781/

http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/forms.htm

The Atlantian Order of the Laurel would like to invite any and all to enter their annual Persona Pentathlon and Persona Triathlon to be held at the 2015 Kingdom Arts and Science Festival.

What is the Persona Pentathlon and the Persona Triathlon?

Persona Pentathlon is a competition where each entrant submits five items that a single persona would have owned or used. Your entry does NOT have to be YOUR persona. But the five items need to be for one persona. There are seven categories and 3 of your five items must be from 3 different categories. The categories include suggested entries, but are not limited to such.

Persona Triathlon is for youth (17 and under) entrants who must have three different items that relate to a single persona.

Category 1: bookbinding, calligraphy, drawing, illumination, painting, papermaking, pigments & inks, sculpture

Category 2: beadwork, clothing accessories (including belts, pouches, and fans), clothing/costume (600-1100, 1101-1350, 1351-1450, 1451-1600, or non-European), hats, knitting, nålbinding, knotted work, lacemaking, needlework (counted thread or free form)

Category 3: ceramics, enameling, glass blowing, lampworking, lapidary, mosaic, pottery, stained glass

Category 4: basket weaving, brewing & vintning, cooking, dyeing, furniture making, herb craft, soap making, spinning, toys & games, weaving (full-sized fabrics or narrow bands)

Category 5: lyric composition, masks, music composition, performance (vocal, instrumental, poetry, storytelling), poetry, prose, dance performance and composition, martial arts performance, research paper

Category 6: armor, chain mail, blacksmithing, jewelry smithing, iron work, tool making, casting, leather work, wood carving and construction, making musical instruments

Category 7: heraldic display, horse barding, subtleties, and anything else that just doesn’t seem to fit into the other categories

Please Note:

• Each item must have separate documentation.

• ALL ADULT ENTRIES WILL BE JUDGED USING THE NEW KINGDOM CRITERIA JUDGING FORMS EXCEPT for the youth triathlon, which will use the youth triathlon form

• If you wish to enter a RESEARCH PAPER as one of your category entries, you MUST contact Mistress Jessamyn di Piemonte no later than FEBRUARY 1, 2015 so that she can arrange to have your paper read BEFORE KASF. RESEARCH PAPERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED AS ENTRIES ON THE DAY OF KASF.

• Contact XXXXXXXXXX if you have any concerns or to consult about the categories your entries might fall under so that they meet the entry requirements.