Cloth of Stars

This is the third post in a three-part series about creating the outfit from Grave ACQ in Kostrup, Denmark.  Part one, about the tablet weav...

In addition to spending two months whomping up a new Italian outfit for Candlemas , which was this past weekend, I also, in that space of ti...

After working my butt off on SCA projects since Thanksgiving, I needed a creative palate-cleanser project - and I was itching to do somethin...

At the beginning of March I posted about making my own glass beads at home ( here ).  I'm still going strong, and I'm getting better...

 Before the pandemic, I got the  awesome  opportunity to learn to make glass beads with FIRE.  It's called lampworking or torchworking -...

I know, I know, I just re-did my Viking necklaces two weeks ago.  I had a "new" string of cobalt blue 8mm glass rounds that I boug...

Guess what I did last night?  I attended our local Flameworks Guild and learned how to make lampwork glass beads!  It was a lot more challen...