Glaslyn Artisan of the Flame
Embroidery
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Glaslyn Artisan of the Flame
Embroidery
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HL Ciard O'Seachnasaigh "How to make your own Bayeux Tapestry" 
An example of the tapsestry No Fee |
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Learn about the original tapestry, how to do outline stitch, triple layer couching, and transferring the design to fabric. Hands-on work embroidering a small design, and learning tricks of working large flat and curved areas. All supplies will be provided, but students need their own scissors. HL Ciard created a 1/3 scale version of four scenes from the Bayeaux Tapestry embroidered in silks on linen. This piece earned a PERFECT SCORE at Gulf Wars 2005. It is SCA history, in that the purpose is an Iris of Merit award. Ciard nic Ruadhan O'Seachnasaigh is an early 1200's Irish chief poet, scholar, and artisan trying to preserve her people's heritage during the time of the English Invasion. She has attained her AoA, GoA, Poet Laureate of Meridies, and Order of the Athenor of Meridies (for scholars). She is also a founding Dean of Academic Research and Librarian Royal University of Meridies, and has received the Order of the Meridian Cross, Order of the Velvet Owl, Order of the Iris of Merit, Steppes Acorn, Thistle in Scribal arts, and Titled Artisan of Rosenfeld. She is the former apprentice to Mistress Brigit Olesdottir. Betty Herrington enjoys working at wood burning, embroidery, scribal arts, costuming, research in early Irish history, genealogy, and gardening. She found the society in Baton Rouge, LA, in Jan 1988, and in Feb 2000 moved back to old homestead with her ailing Mom in Mesquite, TX, after an absence of 20 years. |