Now to start work. I have some of the undertunic done but I have decided to start on the hood. One, I have made hoods before so I have some good ideas how that should work. Two, it will be one of the more visible elements of the outfit.
Here is the mock up.
I have printed the embroidery bits on Sulky so I can adhere them to the cloth, stitch the patterns, then wash the backing away. The wreath will be applique and a bit smaller than I wanted. But only a bit. It is ~8.25″ in diameter so you will see a lot of it. The apples and stick are about 3″ high by 3.5″ wide. I figure there will be ~ 15 of them on the hood itself. The hood will be lined with a darker green on the inside. I took the designs for both from the Traceable Heraldry site https://heraldicart.org/credits. My use of these images are for SCA use and for my personal use only. I have no intend to sell or represent these designs as my own.
At Pennsic, after my vigil was announced, a common question was “what is the next big project?” I had been thinking about what I call the “apple tunic” for a while before this. It is time to at least start, baby steps, on that project.
First, let’s look at what I have.
This is my brown tunic set that I call my brewing tunic. The photo of the trim didn’t turn out. I wear this tunic often as it is comfortable and the sleeves roll up nicely to get them out of the way for activities.
This is another common tunic I wear. It has more my persona play in it. I claim in my persona play that Oswyn of Baðon is half Welsh and the pants are made from a blanket his mother had. The Welsh are known for some crazy color combinations. I made the trim in all photos.
This is a tunic I wear rarely. It is tight, especially in the sleeves. I have definitely put on a few pounds since it was made as well. I call this my teaching tunic. But since I am mostly teaching “messy” things anymore, I wear the brown more often. Again, trim by me.
This is my swan tunic. Until my elevation garb, it was my “fancy” garb. The swan trim was purchased from Calontir Trim but I did the tablet woven trim. I added the laurel cloak to see how it would look. Not too bad.
These are items that will be part of the apple tunic. The green hood, the apple tree pouch, the off white winnegas, and the apple necklace. I will make a laurel medallion to go on the necklace.
It is hard to see but this is the bayeux tapestry style cartoon I commissioned.
It is hard to tell but these are two different shades of red. The left is “redwood” and the right is probably “wine”. I love the dark wine one but I think the left one is more appropriate for this project.
I will need to learn how to sew properly and embroider to do this project. I will likely have to make a cloak in a different color in case I need to attend court as a laurel. So I have a lot of new skills to make a very fancy, early period set.
I spend a lot of time with Oswyn Swann. Time to give Oswyn of Baðon some love.
One of the things my work did do was make space available for people to display their art. I did a few such displays. My coworkers are very aware of my hobby. I bring it up often. Here are part of the display that you might find interesting.
I also maintain the bulletin board near my office. For the summer, I put up “how I spent my summer vacation” for anyone in my department to add photos too. Last summer, I did this collage.
I want to focus on something here.
My wife makes almost all of our garb. That dress hanging up was inspired by that old Dutch painting. (Abelard I think).
Here are more photos of her work. Gertie does good work 🙂 She also has a companion. Matilda the gertruden ratzen.
