The Armour Archive

Adeliz

No decision has yet been made on the knighting. There will at least be a vigil at Pennsic. Knighting will likely either be at Pennsic or at Northshield's fall coronation here in Caer Anterth Mawr. An update will be posted as soon as we know anything.

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Suffice to say... I am very proud of him.

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Does their household have any sort of heraldic badge associated with it? Perhaps some pennons or a banner with their badge; a textile gift along those lines does not take up too much packing space. I was thinking about a silk painted banner, but I don't have the talent to make it and being recently...

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Ok, maybe "retaliation" isn't the best word, but I need some help. Let me explain some background first. Last camping season at Warriors and Warlords, I invited a friend (who in turn brought the rest/most of his household) who was looking for a place to camp to come and join our household, even thou...

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Done? No.

Further than I was before? No.

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Ok, well still pending sizes, I'll take dibs on the red and the gray.

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No... not an escutcheon voided but... a bordure set inside from the edge of the shield (at least thats how I think of it).

Granted, on a heater shaped shield the escutcheon voided gets you the same thing, but the orle follows the shape of the shield, no matter what shape.

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OK guys... I'm thinking Per bend sinister gules and Or, a starling countercha n ged within a bordure sable Fullam -- clear visual difference between bird and beaver, so there's one. You'd want at least one more charge of any sort, or flip the Or and gules on yours so it's opposite from what he's go...

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Fight ya for it! Especially if I get back into armour this year, which is not a sure thing yet, but probable... LOL

Not too worried about it, as even without said measurements I think it more likely to fit your lady than to fit me, but I still wanna know.

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While I do not speak for my lord, I am pretty sure he has declared for the English again this year.

Adeliz - Lady of Count Valerius Paencalvus - posting because he hasn't been keeping up with the Archive much lately

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Also bust measurements.

Thank you.

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Can you give a bit more in sizing? For example, how tall is she/what is length of gowns from neckline to hem? Dress size doesn't give hem length (if she's 6' and I'm 5'4", we could both wear a dress size 6 and not fit the same clothing). Sleeve length would be another good one.

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*edit to add: Okay, I muffed up the terminology on that last one. A 'tressure of objects' is an ORLE of objects. Like this: http://rollofarms.antirheralds.org/display.php?id=1426 Not quite. An orle is a heater shape. It looks like a tressure on a heater shaped shield, but it keeps its heater shape ...

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Also, please note, that the flaunches are the semi-circles coming in from the side, not the "pale" portion in the middle.

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Couldn't the coney's just be "overall, two rabbits with stags attire combattant"? (Sorry, off the top of my head, so that might not be quite right, but the rest of ya heralds will know what I mean) I think that your proposed device is registerable, with one exception.. change the brown/red to a meta...

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Oks... here we go. My work in progress.... That's looking gorgeous! And I'll admit, as a non-embroiderer and looking at it on my phone it took me a little bit. ;) I'm not really an embroiderer either... this is my first major project (I've only done a few other tiny pieces before in the "learning" ...

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Blaine de Navarre wrote:
mjaay wrote:I am kind of a rhino

+1

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Oks... here we go.

My work in progress....

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My project (not limited to winter) is recreating this bag... ... I was originally going to do it 100% period... and I gave up. So I'm working on making it LOOK the same, if not MADE the same way. :) I started in August or so, hoping to have it finished by now, but I think I'll be working on it unti...

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GuntherofOrkney wrote:i figured they were but you didnt say they were never used.

He didn't?

I have for sale an unused set of Crecy era spaulders, elbows and knees.

Hehe.. sorry, couldn't help it.

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Cian of Storvik wrote:I just realized what I want for christmas...A horse that likes to wear
armor and hit things at speed.
-Cian

+1

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While this wasn't an SCA specific room, at another house I lived in we did try to decorate one room in a modern "medieval" theme. One wall was dark grey with styrofoam sheet ripped and carved into gray/black stone-and-mortar sections (applied on the wall with spray contact glue of some variety), the...

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In addition to the long underdress/short overdress combo, I would also suggest a cyclas, though the only picture I know of handy is http://www.caitlinsclothing.com/cyclas13.jpg (the cyclas is the green part). That way you could sell one underdress and two different kinds of over dresses for two comp...

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(I'm still waiting for someone to guess what I meant by the Pooblefranian dillyfronks. I'm going to guess that Pooblefranians are nobles (or the pious in general?) and dillyfronks are paternosters.... :?: I was going with knights and dogs until you talked about "wearing" the dillyfronks. If you'd s...

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brewer wrote: Why are you so mean?

Cuz she's a big meaniehead.

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Karen I was going to quote a bit of your post but now I cant find it, but it just resonated with what one of our squire's lady's told me last camping season. Better, not more. I was lamenting how hard it is to pack the car for camping (we have 2005 Ford Freestyle that fills to the gills even if neit...

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Actually, I just set up a search engine for larsdatter.com that's optimized for people who use iPhones, Androids, and various other types of web-surfing cellphones -- largely for the purpose of being able to be at an event, and find the stuff I've posted without having to deal with having to hunt &...

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Ohh! I am SOO stopping by your table.

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My project (not limited to winter) is recreating this bag... http://www.wymarc.com/asoot/german/images/ppat1.jpg I was originally going to do it 100% period... and I gave up. So I'm working on making it LOOK the same, if not MADE the same way. :) I started in August or so, hoping to have it finished...

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Oh, I agree. What I got from the OP was that this person HAD been offered the gold key option yet chose to go with her current utilitkilt and band shirt outfit. Essentially this. We didn't specifically go to each individual and say "Here, take this loaner garb", but said to our general mailing list...

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I'm pretty sure that my geek over Star Trek and Patrick Stewart as an impressionable young teenager is the reason for my *cough* affinity *cough* for older men. :twisted: I mean: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Patrick_Stewart_Head_Shot.jpg/225px-Patrick_Stewart_Head_Shot.jp...

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let them know this super-authentic look wasn't born whole and complete like Venus on the Half Shell. THIS. Thanks. Thought actually I think it needs to be more of a reminder to existing member not to expect that from new folks, rather than the new folks expecting it of themselves. I appreciate ever...

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P.S. Sorry I keep coming back to the wool thing, it just fresh to the memory and boggles my little mind.

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Having a local group that focuses on authenticity is flat out amazing and awesome. Yeah, we're kinda serious Mafioso around here (I mean between Murdoch and Valerius, its hard not to...LOL) The ONE thing you MUST do to not exclude new people is "new people A&S nights". This is actually something th...

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The biggest complaint I tend to hear from people, that tried and left the SCA, is that their local group was entirely too stuck up about look and authenticity that they always felt shunned because they didn't have the time and money to put into this new hobby that they just found out about and are ...

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