Ciana de'Libri

Ciana de'Libri

Persona

Ciana de’Libri is the youngest daughter of a Florentine Merchant. As such she has been quite indulged and allowed to ride and hunt, and read and have tutors as well as learning the more gentle arts of sewing and embroidery. When it became apparent that this indulgence had made her quite stubborn especially on the subject of marriage her parents sent her away to Spanish relatives where she promptly met, fell in love with and ran away with her now husband, Kian, an Irish mercenary who had been employed in Spain.

Interests

• Clothing construction sewing fitting!
• Weaving
• Dyeing
• Embroidery
• Knitting
• Silk painting, Painting, Drawing, Calligraphy and Illumination
• Book collecting
• Research
• And everything and anything else I can think of!

History

• Was interested in the SCA and saw a number of demos and went briefly to a few events over the course of many years
• May 2010 Went to the Heraldic Symposium in Mission in order to help out her dear friend Lady Kayliegh in the kitchen, won the A&S competition with a cake decorated with the Arms of her Majesty Queen Wrenn, got to give her Majesty the center of the cake which her Majesty then replaced with a cherry tart.
• November 2010 became inspiration of Archery to Her Excellency Baroness Margret of Lions Gate
• February 2011 Entered Lions Gate Baronial A&S, learned a lot and started hanging out with Mistress Agness
• Summer 2011 Went to a whole bunch of awesome events!
• August 2011 Ended up on the retinue of Alden II and Lenora Tanist and ban-Tanist of Tir Righ (still not sure how that happened or what I’m doing there!)

Awards and honors

• Baroness' Inspiration of Archery, Nov 2010
• Award of Arms from Prince Alden and Princess Lenore Tir Righ, Sept 2011

Known accomplices

• Kian
• Agnes Cresewyke
• Shareef Musiqi al-Rashid
• Maeda no Kiku Mariko
• Mary Ostler
• Margaret Hamilton of Stirlingshire
• Johanna van der Velde