things I want to do

[aryanhwy]

A list:

• Finish up the notecards I owe nz_bookwyrm. I have four of the five designs chosen, and most of them sketched out, so they really shouldn't take much more time. They are also sadly overdue.


• A few blank scrolls for the Gulf Wars gift basket, one using either this O or this O.


• Make a woollen panel hat, lined in linen, and decorated with the thick orange yarn I won in a Raglan raffle years ago. If we get back to Iowa in the summer and visit Joel's aunt and uncle, as a bonus maybe I can pick up some mink furs and make a fur lined or trimmed one. Maybe make one for the Gulf Wars gift basket, too.


• Make more wire jewelry. I'd love to investigate necklaces and bracelets.


• Finish my pewter mold and cast into it -- preferably before ID coronet.


• Make a parti-colored plaid cote-hardie the ones here; a color image of the woman's dress can be found here.


• Make a dress like the blue or pink one in the first row here -- complete with the pretty gold bandings.


• Make a heraldic surcoat (see also here), in Drachenwald colors.


• Make a belt like this one or this one.


• Except that I'm not Italian, make a slitted overdress like this one.


• Dress up like Dialectica. And maybe find an Aristotle to dispute with?


• Make an outer layer like the one here (I can't tell for sure from the image if the white is a separate layer from the red, but it looks like it. And it would be more versatile if it were).


• Make a dress like this (though Joel wants me to make one like this, since he says I have the figure to pull it off).


• Make a wooden box in the manner of master Svartulvur, always remembering while doing so the useful concept of "Laurel minutes".


• Make an embroidered copelet.


• Make a 14th-C-esque veil/head-covering. 12-Jan-14.


• Convert a photo of my cousin into a painting.

That's an awfully lot of sewing for someone who detests sewing as much as I do...

Comments

[nz-bookwyrm.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something I meant to discuss with you at Yule Ball...

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

I have been working (or at least thinking about) them incrementally -- but one set-back happened when I lost the card stock I was going to do them on and it took me months to find it again; a real problem as it happened after we moved and I haven't found a source for good card-stock/watercolor paper, etc., in Heidelberg.

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

So, a bunch of fitted gowns and a 12th c. outfit. ;-)

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's a pity that history isn't a science by mediaeval standards or I could have joined you (I don't think that I would be a good Aristotle). I used the Astronomy + Ptolemaios image in my dissertation (and more lectures than I want to think of) and I love those drawings.

/Eva

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Do you have a source for these images in a higher resolution? The one I linked to is so small that it's hard to see the dress well.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's in www.bildindex.de. I can't seem to get a permanent link, but if you search for Cod.Lat.2599, you will get the manuscript, which is in München. Philosphy is there as a queen too.

/Eva

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's not the prettiest that I've made, but I have made a dress based another of the Philosophy illustrations in this manuscript, it's here., this time the illustration showing Philosphy consoling Boethius.

/Eva

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Oooh, neat!

[kareina.livejournal.com]

That is a lot of sewing, even for people who like it. But I suspect that your deadline isn't this month, and perhaps not even this year.

Is that heraldic surcote in addition to the tabard we have been talking about doing?

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Yeah, this is not a todo list, and there is no deadline. Things are allowed to go on and off it as I please. But it's always good to have outlined all the things I'm considering, with links, for ease of future reference.

The heraldic surcote is different from the tabard, it won't have the kingdom arms on it, just the populace badges.

[math5.livejournal.com]

What do you go from for the panel hat?

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Someone posted a picture of the shape of panel they use on the Largesse Makers group on FB, I thought I'd try that. But first I want to get some actual info about place/period that hats like this were used, and from there make modifications regarding design and style.

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

boesner.com is a good place in Germany for art supplies, they do mail order as well as have a lot of shops. I think the colses one to Heidelberg is probably Karlsruhe though so still a distance if you don't have a car.
http://www.boesner.com/unternehmen/standorte/deutschland

they are art shop that does wholesale as well as sells to regular customers the only hook is you need to create an account as a freischaffende kunstler ( freelance artist ) which you can do because you make art. They don't ask for much but in order to sell to non businesses they need to do this.

Also look for shops like Karstadt in the down town shopping part because they often have a fairly decent paper / stationary section that has art supplies as well.

also a good place to find information is Toytown an online place for non germans living in germany, there was a discussion about art supplies a long while back but maybe the information is still relevant.
http://www.toytowngermany.com/lofi/index.php/t159935.html

there is also this which I found searching for "Heidelberg art supply shop"
http://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=artsupplies&find_loc=Heidelberg%2C+Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg

[aryanhwy.livejournal.com]

Toytown has indeed been a very useful source since we've moved here.

Boesner is lovely; between it and Gerstäcker, Karlsruhe is really well situations. There's another SCAdian there, so we make it over pretty regularly.

I don't think I've seen a Karstadt downtown, but I'll keep my eye open whenever we make it to the outer shopping areas.