The cross crosslet is the charge from her device. The stones are garnet and the entire disk brooch (to hold the cloak in place) is built tough enough to survive the rigours of field and tourney.
I hope it is also nice enough to be worn for more civil occassions.
Even the lockdown system on the pin at the back of the brooch is designed to foil the paranoid ranting of the most hysterical of Marshals (and it is a period method, too).
The question is would there be any general interest if I was to start offering these sort of things up as a general stock item? Available either round or heater-shield shaped with the customer's device/main charge/whatever, possibly some wording, and a choice of metals and how they are layed out.
Little cutwork designs in place of the stones is also an option (as most stones used in the SCA are just not goin to surviv years of getting whacked with swords. Garnets are good that way, Labrodorite too, but so much else would just go "ping!")
Also, apropos of nothing at all. This is another of the gifts that got given during the "season". Just a penannular (I have built several hundred by now), but I am pleased with how the details on this little prototype worked. Stones are garnet, metal is bronze and steel. Chem-blued after a mirror polish and with a polymer based gun wax/varnish to protect against rust.
This is not one to wear out on the SCA battle field!
Sasha
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Work like you were living in the early days of a better nation
-Oysterband
