Lady Elewys

SCA West Kingdom • she/they/any • Herald • Bard • Fiberarts feind • Music and dance enthusiast

[elewys]

Unto the denizens of Tumblr does Elewys Gwynne verch Llewelyn Dedewyth ap Gwenhwyfar Llwyd send greetings!

I have been active in the SCA for a couple years now and decided to make a side log so my main isn't spammed with marginalia-posting and the like.

I am currently located in the Principality of the Mists in the West Kingdom and my primary interest in the society is Heraldry (primarily voice though I am learning book). Outside of that I enjoy sewing, various fiberarts, bardic, dancing, and welcoming newcomers to the SCA.

[aeide]

By day I wove the web, and in the night by torchlight, I unwove it.

ἔνθα καὶ ἠματίη μὲν ὑφαίνεσκον μέγαν ἱστόν, νύκτας δ᾽ ἀλλύεσκον, ἐπεὶ δαΐδας παραθείμην.

Odyssey 19.149–150. Emily Wilson translation.

a weaving based on Dora Wheeler's "Penelope Unraveling Her Work at Night", which is one of my favorite works that looks woven but is actually embroidered. I wanted to try out deborah silver's split-shed weaving technique, so I chose polychrome taqueté with linen and cashmere. I maybe should have chosen an easier technique with fewer colors to start, but here we are! on the right side, I left the uppermost warp threads bare to show the unraveling.

reference below the cut:

[arwendeluhtiene]

Late 14th-early 15th Century dark green damask cottehardie (fully lined with linen) (gold lacing was temporary, the final laces are green). I absolutely love this dress 😍💚 I love the colour and the fabric and the silhouette and those skirt pleats and the front lacing and the sleeve buttons, and well, everything xD 

Also featuring the linen chemise and the decorative linen veil, beaded with a lot of faux pearls two days before a con (con crunch ftw xDD)

Historical reenactment

14th Century reenactment

DeviantArt

FB cosplay page

IG cosplay page

[folkfashion]

Mandika woman's dress, Guinea, by saranbahofficial

[justgarb]

look at that drip

[marlynnofmany]

Somebody's going to want to know this one.

[mothman-etd]

Not sure got to feel when the hobby book says this should only take an hour but it took me 5 hours.

[gallusrostromegalus]

1. Hobby books are often written by the same people who think you can caramelize onions in 5 minutes

2. Hobby books are even more often written by people who don't have or are actively neglecting their partners/full-time jobs/pets/children/household maintenance.

3. Hobby books are often written by people with ADHD, and an hour in ADHD hyperspace is like 2-7 hours for everyone else, including other ADHD people who are not currently in the zone.

4. Hobby books are written by people who, when told by an editor to add in how long it will take, just make shit up

5. If you're doing something for the first time, you're going to take way, way longer to do it than someone who's had years of practice. Maybe it does only take an hour IF YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT FOR TEN YEARS. Think about how long it took you to make idk your first excel spreadsheet vs how long it takes now

To actually answer your question: proud. You should feel proud, because you made something, AND you did so while learning a brand-new skill! Go you!!

May I ask what the Allegedly-One-Hour project was? Both because I like hearing about what my friends are doing and I want to see how wildly inaccurate the listed time scope is.

[queershakespeare]

replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

[guildedwriter]

(source) 

[medievalsquire]

my knight keeps telling me “legends are not born from comfort” meanwhile i have trench foot

[dream-louder]

I am pretty sure I got frostbite at Gulf Wars

like not medically diagnosed but my toes got numb and painful and tingling on that one night when it was really cold and then they kinda didn't recover for a few weeks

however that one is entirely my own fault

my knight wasn't even on the same side of the campsite and also would've probably helped me not get frostbite if he was

everyone would've offered to help me if I'd asked

but asking for help with getting warmer would have required going to bed before 4am, and like. gulf wars is such a great place to be a wandering minstrel. camps were giving me not just good rum and good whiskey but also shit like quesadillas and pretty beads

actually maybe the rum didn't help either

anyway my toes have mostly returned to not being numb or tingly but they're still a little kind of tingly numb at the ends and it's been. uh. a little while now.

and I'm gonna do it again exactly the same next year because it was awesome and I'm a legend

[just-a-random-nerd]

Next year will you consider wearing socks to Gulf War?

[dream-louder]

Absolutely the fuck not. I hate socks

[tiffbaxter]

🧡Sweet mother, I cannot weave…🧡 My full drawing of Anglo-Saxon era lesbians for We've Always Been Here artbook along with a look at the progress. (Digital sketch & pencil drawing)

[medievalistsnet]

More Medieval Coins Discovered, Adding to Norway’s Largest-Ever Hoard

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered hundreds more coins from the Mørstad Hoard, now the country’s largest-ever Viking Age coin discovery, shedding new light on medieval trade and iron production.

Read here

[milkywayan]

rocking face framing braids, spending the day in an old norwegian house making shoes with super cool people, and eating authentically cooked medieval food

what a way to spend a sunday!

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver bull's head furniture decoration with lapis lazuli and shell eyes, city of Ur, Sumer, circa 2450 BC

from The Penn Museum

[milkywayan]

going to make a proper post update, but i finally managed to get some sewing done with friends last weekend and my new kirtle is almost done :D

[milkywayan]

posting this outside the long post to say that my 15th century nun is finished!

I am very happy how it turned out and can't wait to wear it at the Oslo medieval festival next weekend!

[the-merry-otter]

Looking badass with a sword that Does Not Belong To Me ™, once again from the medieval-themed wedding I attended.

📸 ~ @aesa-draumspakr

[time-thy-pyramids]

Hunter-gatherer's approach to manufacturing textiles:

Find a suitable 3D mass

Peel off its outer layer to get a 2D sheet

Agriculturalist's approach to manufacturing textiles:

Produce a 1D filament

Shape it into a 2D space-filling curve