Petra del Bosque Villard

Brief Background:

Petra attended her first SCA event at Kent Canterbury Faire in 1993. She was inducted into the Daughters of Loki in January 1994 at Urselmas. She was a regular participant at events in An Tir through 2002, when she took a necessary break from the SCA to pursue her college education, attending only a handful of events between 2003 - 2020. In January 2021, Petra returned to the SCA after having completed her modern higher education, establishing her career, and taking time to travel. She looks forward to connecting with friends old and new, and exploring her Spanish persona.

SCA Skills & Interests

• Sewing & Garment Making

• Embroidery

• Jewelry Making

• Spinning (Drop Spindle)

• Knitting

• Beadwork

• Painting & Illumination

• Weaving

• Equestrian Activities

• Organizing Information & Conducting Research

Works & Achievements

• 1993 - 2002 I did various things such as waterbearing at events, and assisting a few event autocrats by organizing games & contests within their events (some that I recall were running a game of Clench-a-Wench at June Faire each year, and the annual Torchlight Tourney and the Middle Eastern Dance Contest at Autumn War were originally started by me). I won a cookie baking contest at Bar Gemels and was asked to provide the same cookies for a Laurel meeting by the Queen at that time, which I was honored to do. I also won a Samhain costume contest in Blatha An Oir, portraying the ghost of Ophelia.

• In 2021, assisted with the awards backlog and found contact information for 80 awardees who had been previously un-reachable so that they could receive their awards

• Awarded Arts & Sciences Champion of Blatha an Oir at 2022 Embers & Ambrosia event. At the same event, I taught a class on the different breeds of wool used in the Middle Ages and had sourced samples of many of those wools, some of which were not easy to find. I spent several months on that project, researching and collecting samples. (I'm happy to teach that class again, upon request.)

• Sponsored and ran the 1st Garb Contest at 2022 Autumn War

• Awarded Blatha an Oir's Companionship of the Golden Blossom for service in the Arts & Sciences at 2022 Autumn War