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| Etoile d'Argent (Tir Righ) By: William MacBrennan, Nadezhda Toranova Feb 17, 2018 (AS LII) | | Etoile d'Argent (Tir Righ) By: William MacBrennan, Nadezhda Toranova Feb 17, 2018 (AS LII) |
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| '''Offices / Retinue''' | | '''Offices / Retinue Held''' |
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| Joint Arts Mistress Seagirt -1989-1992 | | Joint Arts Mistress Seagirt -1989-1992 |
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| Lady in Waiting – Princess Nadezhada Toranove, Tir Righ | | Lady in Waiting – Princess Nadezhada Toranove, Tir Righ |
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| Basic Embroidery, | | Basic Embroidery, |
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| Bayeaux tapestry stitch, | | Bayeaux tapestry stitch, |
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| Introduction to tapestry weaving, | | Introduction to tapestry weaving, |
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| Colleguium class on the History of Gothic tapestry | | Colleguium class on the History of Gothic tapestry |
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| '''Works''' | | '''Tapestry Works''' |
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| | Two Mille fleur tapestries based on the Unicorn tapestry, one my own design |
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| | King Arthur Tapestry |
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| Print and embroider border of Celtic beast from the Chapel at Cashel, hand sew the tunic | | Print and embroider border of Celtic beast from the Chapel at Cashel, hand sew the tunic |
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| Two Mille fleur tapestries based on the Unicorn tapestry, one my own design
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| King Arthur Tapestry
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| Sampling for the Baldishol tapestry, and Norse beast using the techniques from the Baldishol tapestry
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| '''Tapestry Work'''
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| ''Database'' -
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| ''Database Bibliography'' -
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| Tapestry: Craft & Art, Maurice Pianzola, Coffinet, Julien; van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1971)
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| Masterpieces of Tapestry; Metropolitan Museum of Art (1973)
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| Wrought in Gold & Silk, Quye, Anita; Halleett, Kathryn; Carretero, Concha Herero, (2009)
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| This book has the most information on restoration and dyes
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| The Lost Tapestries of the City of Ladies, Bell, Susan Groag, University of California Press
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| World Tapestry , Jarry, Madeleine, G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, (1968)
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| Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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| Swiss Medieval Tapestries, Gysin, Frederic
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| A good look at Tapestries that are not usually included in other books
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| Five Centuries of Tapestry, Bennett, Anna Grey, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
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| The Tapestry Collection: Medieval and Renaissance, Digby, G.F. Wingfield, the V&A Museum
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| The Art of Tapestry, Various texts, Thames & Hudson, (1964)
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| The Lady and the Unicorn, Sutherland Lyall, Parkstone Limited, London, (2000)
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| The Unicorn Tapestries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Adolfo Salvatore Cavallo; Yale University Press, New Haven & London, (1998)
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| Tapestries from the Renaissance to the 19th Century, Mercedes Viale; Cassell London (1984)
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| Tapestry of the Apocalypse of Angers: Front & Back, Francis Muel; Images de Patrimoine (1996)
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| Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Edmond Pognon: Minerva (1979)
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| French Tapestry, Roger-Armand Weigert, Charles t. Branford Company, Newton 59, Mass. (1956)
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| History of Tapestry, W. G. Tompson; Hodder and Stoughton
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| Tapestry, Barty Phillips; Phaidon
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| Tapestry Mirror of History, F.P. Thompson, Crown
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| Great Tapestries: The Web of History from the 12th to the 20th Century, Edited by Joseph Jobe (with Verlet, Floursone, etc.); Edita Lusagnne
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| The Conservation of Tapestries & Embroideries, The Getty Conservation Institute
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| Proceeding of meetings at the Institute Royal du Patrimoine Artistuwis, Brussels, Belgium, September 1987.
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| 1066 The Normans invade England
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| 1075 Bayeux Tapestry embroidered (approximate date)
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| 1095/99 The First Crusade
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| 1100 St. Gereon Tapestry, (approximate date) The Tapestry Collection
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| 1189/92 The Third Crusade, sack of Constantinople
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| 1200/30 The Months Tapestry probably created, stylistically similar to the Bayeux Tapestry
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| Gothic tapestry originally used 15 to 20 colours, 13 -15 epi Art of Tapestry
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| 1260 Livres Des Métiers records the rules of the "Saracen" weaver. Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1260 Seventh Crusade Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1290 Parisian law forbade pregnant women to work on horizontal looms (p70) The Lost Tapestries
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| 1300's Arras weavers start to use silk, metal threads and finer wool, the fine wool becomes
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| known as Arras thread The Art of Tapestry
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| 1313 The text refers to Arras as high warp work World Tapestry
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| 1352 Arras weavers settle in Tournai
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| 1371 Jean de Bondolf (Henequin of Bruges), a Flemish artist, working for France and Flanders,
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| painter and Valet de Chamber for the King is commissioned to create the Apocalypse of
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| Angers Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1375 Richard II King of England
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| 1377 only 15 colours of yarn were used (WT)
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| 1379 Jehanne Aghehe de Londres worked in Arras in 1379 (p70),
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| Adoration of the Magi, convent woven, tiny nun weaving placed in border The Lost Tapestries
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| 1337/80 Charles VI, King of France Art of Tapestry
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| 1342-1404 Phillip the Bold, Burgundy, a major purchaser of tapestry Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1387 The Battle of Roosebecke was so huge it had to be cut into 3 pieces World Tapestry
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| 1398 Tournai Weavers rules established Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1402 Life of Saint Piat, for Tournai Cathedral, contained an unidentified synthetic dye Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1408 Low warp tapestry, used thick threads, and a grassy green background Art of Tapestry
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| 1408/27 Netherlandish weavers in Venice, Niccolò de Pietro, The Crucifixion and the Lamentation Tapestry in the
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| 1412 Paris weaves move to Lille World Tapestry
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| 1415 French defeat at Agincourt
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| 1418 Parisian Weavers dispersed mostly due to the 100 years war
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| 1396-1467 Phillip the Good, Burgundy, most powerful of the 15th century rulers The Art of Tapestry
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| 1419 Paris weaves move to Mantua World Tapestry
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| 1420 Noble Couple, Arras, uses the same cartoon as used in a previous tapestry,
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| but reversed and some figures deleted Masterpieces of
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| 1423/67 Arras listed 59 tapestry weavers, 2 were women (p 70) The Lost Tapestries
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| 1422 Paris Guilds decimated (100 years war and English conquest of Paris.) World Tapestry
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| 1423/67 59 master tapestry weavers registered as living in Arras.
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| Arras decline is caused by customs regulations and political events (war) World Tapestry
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| 1425/50 Jehan Walois, came from Hardwich, Devonshire Hunting Tapestries (4 pieces) The Tapestry Collection
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| 1435/40 Lady Holding a Falcon, same cartoon as 51 &52 clothing styles later date Masterpieces of
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| 1449 Philip le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, influenced the style in Arras which was different
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| The painters Guillaume au Vaissel & Baudoin de Balleul (Arras style) The art of Tapestry
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| 1450/93 Pasquier Grenier, from artisan, to middleman, to merchant World Tapestry
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| 1450s Wild Men with Animals, Swiss The Tapestry Collection
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| 1452 Statues of the Brussels weavers, end of 100 years war, Leonardo born Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1455 Paris weavers move to Rome World Tapestry
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| 1459/75 Pasquer Grenier, Tournai, his workshop is very busy, The Story of Alexander
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| The Knight of the Swan, The Story of Esther, The Destruction of Troy, Confirmation
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| (from the 7 Sacraments) World Tapestry +
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| The Art of Tapestry
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| 1467/77 Charles the Bold of Burgundy, son of Phillip the Good Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1469 Charles the Bold of Burgundy has a complete inventory taken of his tapestries World Tapestry
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| 1460/75 Conrad & Henrie Vulcop, designers of the Trojan War, many copies woven,
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| pieces in a number of museums Masterpieces of
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| 1470 White linen thread, embroidered in places, Basle Swiss Medieval
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| 1476 Brussels painters complain that weavers are using cartoons not designed by painters, Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| the weavers reply that they have always done so. An agreement follows,
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| first step towards to control of tapestry by painters.
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| 1477/82 Mary of Burgundy, an influential buyer Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1483 Raphael born, Charles VII King of France, Richard III King of England
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| 1477 Tournai no longer weaves for the Burgundian court, but still weaving. World Tapestry
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| 1477 Louis XI (France) lays siege to Arras but the looms stay active until 1528
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| 1480/1530 Margaret of Austria, rules the low countries Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1490s There is a lot of info as to history of ownership in met book of the Lady with the Unicorn Masterpieces of
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| 1483 Birth of Raphael, Richard III King of England, Charles VIII King of France
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| 1485 The Virgin in Glory, an example of a tapestry directly inspired by a painting Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1480/90 Netherlands, The Hunt of the Unicorn Masterpieces of
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| 1492 Medici at Florence
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| 1490(?) Nobleman presenting a Heron to a Lady, a rare pink background, mille fleur Masterpieces of
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| 1490 The Search After Truth, cotton was used for the embroidered faces, German The Tapestry Collection
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| 1500 Francois I King of France, Charles V Emperor, Durier, Holbein Cranach
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| 1500 by the end of the fifteenth Century, Arras fading and Bruges, Middleburg, Lille and
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| Tournai(p52) more info p 50. The fulfillment of the Prophesies at the Birth of Christ The Lost Tapestries
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| 1500s Arnold Poissonier, one of the greatest tapestry weavers, Gypsies at a Chateau Gate, Tournai Masterpieces of
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| 1505/58 Mary of Austria, daughter of Phillip the Handsome, & Joanna of Castile, governed the
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| Low Countries, from 1526 after the death of her husband Juan II of Hungary dies.
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| Flanders period of greatest artistic splendor. Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1508/1515 Tapestry with Arms of Louise of Savoy-Angouleme shows the introduction of
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| renaissance style into France. Masterpieces of
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| 1507/30 Margaret of Austria, rules the low countries Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1515 The use of dyer's greenweed, logwood, purpurin, this book has a lot of information on dyes Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1520 old fustic, logwood, tannin, Mexican cochineal, Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1526 Brussels becomes the weaving center of the best and highest quality tapestries in
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| the Southern Low countries. Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1528 Brussels magistrate makes tapestry marks compulsory, Luther preaches reform. Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1535/81 Willem de Pannemaker, son of Pieter de Pannemaker, a weaver of the court of Mauguerite
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| of Austria, was seen to embody the quality of Brussels tapestry weaving at it's peak. Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1544 Edict which makes all workshops to adopt a mark of the city and workshop,
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| 1547 Edict regulating the commerce and production Bruges Wrought in Gold & Silk
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| 1551 Foundation of the Atelier de la Trinite in Paris by Henry II, Paris Tapestry: Craft & Art
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| 1588 Sheldon Looms, English established The Tapestry Collection
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| 1619 Foundation of the Mortlake factory in England, James I Tapestry: Craft & Art
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Awards Received
Award of Arms (An Tir) By: Thorin Njalsson, Angharad Drakenhefd o Fynydd Blaena May 19, 1990 (AS XXV)
Jambe de Lion (An Tir) By: Gunnarr Brunwulf, Gabriell MacBain May 16, 1992 (AS XXVII)
Magistrae Ithra (Ithra) Nov 15, 1992 (AS XXVII)
Seagull (Seagirt) By: None listed for this time period Aug 5, 1995 (AS XXX)
Baron's Favor (Dragon's Mist) By: Finn Grim Aug 18, 2017 (AS LII)
Princess' Talon of Favor (Tir Righ) By: Nadezhda Toranova Feb 17, 2018 (AS LII)
Prince's Favor (Tir Righ) By: William MacBrennan Feb 17, 2018 (AS LII)
Etoile d'Argent (Tir Righ) By: William MacBrennan, Nadezhda Toranova Feb 17, 2018 (AS LII)
Offices / Retinue Held
Joint Arts Mistress Seagirt -1989-1992
Shire waterbearer Seagirt 1989 -1991
Co-autocrat for the feast of the Immaculate Confection, Seagirt 1991
Various judging for Principality and Kingdom A&S competitions
Lady in Waiting – Princess Nadezhada Toranove, Tir Righ
Classes Taught
Basic Embroidery,
blackwork,
Bayeaux tapestry stitch,
Introduction to tapestry weaving,
Colleguium class on the History of Gothic tapestry
Tapestry Works
Two Mille fleur tapestries based on the Unicorn tapestry, one my own design
King Arthur Tapestry
Sampling for the Baldishol tapestry, and Norse beast using the techniques from the Baldishol tapestry
Other Works
1989 –
Embroider 2 panels of the Seagirt Tapestry
Embroider and make yellow dress, large embroidery border based on an early sword scabbard
1992 –
design and embroider Eduardo’s peacock cloak
Create a complete early Celtic outfit for Eduardo, including weave trim and appleque
celtic knotwork border
Blackwork bands for various people
2017 –
print, embroider outline in gold, and hand sew blue Norman tunic for William Mac Brennan
Norman socks for both William MacBrennan and Finn Grimm – print, embroider and sew
2018 -
Design and execute the ducal cloak for Duke Savric
Print and embroider border of Celtic beast from the Chapel at Cashel, hand sew the tunic