“colour” or “ladies, show your feet” ;)
About 4 years ago I gave a “Streichpsalter” including an embroidered bag, which I especially made for this psaltery, to Arnulf, a member of my shire Ad Flumen Caerulum and our current seneschal, because some of his music instruments (including a psaltery) were stolen while he was working at a concert event.
At this time I wasn’t practising my psaltery very often and I knew that it would cost him enough money to replace the other stolen instruments therefore I gave him the psaltery including the bag and just requested a pair of 14th century shoes… You can see the bag on the pictures above and the one on the left side 
…and finally, I got my shoes today and I really love them – Thanks, Arnulf :*
…and yes, the shoes are purple – purple with a pink border!
…and I think they look great with my red 14th century stockings…
colour rulezzz!
…and now I just need some colourful 14th century dresses…
…and “bling bling” 
…and the shoes were made by
Ledermanufaktur Thomas Posenanski
6th Scroll – AoA (blank)
I used Schreibtinte / Writing ink – Eisen-Gallus-Tinte “Scabiosa” (Rohrer & Klinger, Leipzig-Co.) for this scroll and again I tried to copy a small part from a Dürer picture
5th Scroll – AoA (blank)
Yesterday I finished another AoA scroll blank (size A5) – unfortunately there is not much place left for the year and the event name, but hopefully that won’t matter… I think my Bastarda hand is getting better with each scroll and I love the “A” letter initial that I tried for this scroll blank…
Instead of Nan-King Encre de Chine – intense indian ink (Lefrac & Bourgeois) or the Schreibtinte / Writing ink – Eisen-Gallus-Tinte “Salix” (Rohrer & Klinger, Leipzig-Co.), that I used for the 4th scroll, I used Schreibtinte / Writing ink – Eisen-Gallus-Tinte “Scabiosa” (Rohrer & Klinger, Leipzig-Co.) for this scroll and I am very pleased with the color
gorgeous new book about “Gotik Art” :)
Some time ago I visited a bookshop in the first district here in Vienna and found a gorgeous book in the antiquarian part of the bookshop in the cellar…
…after comparing the price online I decided to order a copy at Amazon.de and I still love it!!!
Gotische Kunst
ISBN 3-451-19403-1
A4 size, 638 pages
980 pictures (183 color pictures)
text: German
Cover picture: Ursula-Schrein. Hans Memling. Eichenholz, vergoldet. 1489, Brügge, Johannes-Hospital
You can find beautiful photos like the following pics in this great book – just for example:
# 30 – Kathedrale St. Etheldreda / cathedral …
Blick in die Vierung. / view into the intersection
1328-1340 erneuert. / … renewed
Ely.
# 31 – Westminster Abbey, Chapel of Henry VII
Blick in das Gewölbe. / view into the vault (?)
Zwischen 1503 und 1509. / between …
London
# 60 – Der Fürst der Welt / the prince of the world
Figur vom südlichen Westportal des Straßburger Münsters. / statue – southern west-portal of the Straßburger minster/cathedral
Stein. Höhe 1,70 m. /stone. height …
1280-1290.
Straßburg, Frauenhaus-Museum.
# 61 – Kluge Jungfrau / clever virgin
Figur vom südlichen Westportal des Straßburger Münsters. (see above)
Stein.
1280-1290.
Straßburg, Frauenhaus-Museum.
# 98 – Angler an einem Fischteich / fishermen by the (?) fishpond
Fresko in der Chambre du Cerf. / fresco in the …
Ausschnitt. / detail
1343.
Avignon, Papstpalast. / …, palace of the pope
# 127 – Francesco D’Este
Rogier van der Weyden.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
# 128 – Bildnis einer jungen Frau / painting of a young woman
Petrus Christus.
Nach 1446. / after …
Berlin, Staatliche Museen.
# 129 – Bildnis der Maria von Burgund
zweite Hälfte des 15.Jhd. / 2nd half of the 15th century
Chantilly, Musée Condé.
# 143 – Guillaume de Machaut
empfängt den Besuch der Natura / welcomes the visit of the “Natura”
und ihrer drei Kinder / and her three children
Vernunft, Rhetorik und Musik / reason, rhetoric and music
um 1390. / about …
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
# 160 – Die Jagd auf das Einhorn / the hunt of the unicorn
Leinen, Seide und Metallfäden / linen, silk and metal-threads
um 1500. / about …
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
# 166 – Maria mit dem Kind / Maria with the child
…
Erstes Drittel des 13. Jhd /first third of the 13th century
Namur, Schatzkammer der Kirche Notre-Dame / Namur, treasury of the church …
# 167 – Kelch des Gilles de Walcourt
…
Um 1228-1230. / about …
Namur, Schatzkammer der Kirche Notre-Dame
# 168 – Kelch der heiligen Agnes
…
Paris, um 1380 (Inschrift von 1610)
London, British Museum
#169 Trinkbecher, der sogenannte Affenpokal
…
Frankreich, um 1430-1440 / France, about …
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters
# 181 – Maria im geschlossenen Garten
(Hortus conclusus)
Vom Meister der Berliner Passion (zweite Hälfte des 15.Jhd / second half of the 15th century)
Kupferstich
…
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
# 182 – Messe des heiligen Gregor
Vom Meister I. A. M.
(zweite Hälfte des 15. Jhd)
Kupferstich
…
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
# 240 – # 248
# 240 – Kopf der Maria mit dem Kind. 2.Viertel des 14Jhd. Paris, Kathedrale / head of the Maria with the child. 2nd quarter of the 14th century. Paris, cathedral.
# 241 – Kopf der hl. Katherina. 1374-1384. Courtrai, Notre-Dame.
# 242 – Kopf der “Notre-Dame de Grasse”. Zwischen (between) 1430-1440.
# 243 – Kopf der Maria mit dem Kind, der sog. Vierge Bulliot. Mitte (middle) des 15.Jhd.
# 244 – Kopf der Maria aus einer Pietà. Aus Appenzell. Um (about) 1420.
# 245 – Kopf der Maria mit dem Kind. 2. Viertel des 14.Jhd.
# 246 – Kopf der Grabfigur der Marguerite d’Artois. Aus der Jakobinerkirche in Paris. 2.Viertel des 14.Jhd.
# 247 – Kopf der Margarete von Luxemburg. 1312
# 248 – Kopf einer der Törichten Jungfrauen. Vom südlichen Westportal des Straßburger Münsters. Um 1280-1290.
# 301 – # 312
…
right side:
# 306 – Die Klugen und die Törichten Jungfrauen. Portal der Vorhalle. 3. Viertel des 13. Jhd. Magdeburg, Dom.
# 307 – 312 – Köpfe der Klugen und der Törichten Jungfrauen. Portal der Vorhalle. 3. Viertel des 13.Jhd. Magdeburg, Dom.
# 396 – # 403
…
# 489 – # 497
…
# 520 – # 527
…
…interested into this book but you can’t read/understand German? Please don’t worry – there are plenty beautiful pics in this book and if you really want to understand some of the text you can consult http://dict.leo.org/ or http://woerterbuch.reverso.net/ or just ask one of the SCA-members living in Austria or Germany who can translate it for you
…such a lovely book! …such great pics! …get the book if you can get it for a reasonable price
4th Scroll – AoA (blank)
Today I finished another AoA scroll blank (size A5).
Normally I use black Nan-King Encre de Chine – intense indian ink (Lefrac & Bourgeois) but today I tried to work with Schreibtinte / Writing ink – Eisen-Gallus-Tinte “Salix” (Rohrer & Klinger, Leipzig-Co.)
…and again I tried to copy a small part from a Dürer picture for the bottom
3rd Scroll – AoA (blank)
Recently I saw a gorgeous scroll done by my friend Melisende from Insulae Draconis (England) and decided that I really should practise my Bastarda hand – and how could I practise a hand better than doing another scroll… …and here is the result – my 3rd scroll – this time again an AoA (Award of Arms) scroll
…this here was my workplace for this project – normally this is our dining table – I used my embroidery basket to get an inclination of about 30° which makes writing for me much easier than if my drawing plate would lay flat on the table…
I love Melisendes scrolls and especially the scroll she made for Gyles catched my eye.
After the calligraphy was done I decided to add something at the bottom of my scroll – therefore I took a look in one of my books about the work of Dürer and found this nice book,… and decided to copy it as good as possible
…and this is the result – I hope you like it
I admit that I had to face some problems and that I made some mistakes while I was writing down the text, but with the help of a very sharp blade – I think I got it from Mistress Bridget when I started with calligraphy and illumination and it is one of the most useful gifts I ever got for calligraphy – I got rid of the mistakes and now I am quite pleased with the result
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 200h 23min :)
…embroidery status:
200 hours 23 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
…Schönbrunn :)
The weather was quite warm and sunny today and therefore we decided to go for a walk in the garden of the ‘Schloß Schönbrunn’.
The wind was rather cold but we very enjoyed the sun and the fresh air
…and again I took some photos…
Valentine’s Day :)
…btw. my Valentine’s Day was great – we took a walk through the snow-covered ‘Schönbrunn’ and the “Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Vienna Zoo” and I took some nice pictures …and afterwards we had our Valentine’s dinner at the Brandauer’s Schloßbräu and we had two ‘Wiener Schnitzel’ – to bad that they moved the non-smoking area to another section with more tables but with less ambience 
…and my Valentin’s Day presents are:
- 2 additional years Flickr
- ‘TAK V BOWES DEPARTED – A 15th Century Braiding Manual Examinded’
Thank you sweety! …and also a big thank you to my friend Tristan who pointed me to this great booklet in his posting ‘Blue, white & gold purse finished!’ – if you don’t know his blog and work by now you should really visit his blog “Taschen”!
new books… :)
I love second hand bookshops and recently I visited one and found following books:
“Mary Thomas’s – DICTIONARY OF EMBROIDERY STITCHES”
I really love this new book – I own and know many dictionaries of embroidery stitches by now but I think this new one has a good chance to become my favourite one
The book contains drawings of the different techniques that are rather easy to understand and also photos of lovely samplers worked in different stitches… I especially love the explanation of the Picot-Bullion, Picot-Buttonhole, Picot-Loop, Picot-Ring and Picot-Woven…
“Handarbeiten wie zu Großmutters Zeiten – Nachdruck von 1913″
This book is a reprint of a book from 1913 and a really great book and it covers following chapters:
Das Häkeln, Das Stricken, Die Knüpfarbeit, Die Filet- oder Netzarbeit, Die Frivolitätenarbeit (Occhi-Technik), Die Klöppelarbeit, …, Die Kreuzstichstickerei, Das Übertragen der Muster, Die Weißstickerei (zb: einfache Weißstickerei, Lochstickerei, Richelieustickerei), Die künstlerische Weißstickerei, Die Durchbrucharbeit, Die Nähspitze, Die Tüllspitze, Die Bändchenspitze, Die Plattstickerei, Die orientalische Buntstickerei, Die Tamburierarbeit, Die orientalische Geflechtstickerei, Die Goldstickerei, Die Aufnäharbeit, …
Size A5, 460 pages – just b/w pictures and this lovely old letters – a very nice and useful book for every needlework-book collection
…and you can get it at Amazon for about 1€
…and I also found two books about costume and fashion and it’s history and I am very looking forward to reading them:
“Vom Lendenschurz zum Minirock. Kleidung, Mode, Schmuck.”
“Das große Bilderlexikon der Mode. Vom Altertum zur Gegenwart.”
…and last but not least I found this really big book for 1,50 € and thought that I should rescue it and take it home (yeah, I love books with many pictures) :
“Larousse Encyclopaedia of Renaissance and Baroque Art”
books… I am reading at the moment…
…what am I reading in my spare time? …since last years summer I am reading “Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things”
…and I recently decided to learn more about several centuries and therefore started to read “Jahrhunderte der Kunst: Das 14. Jahrhundert. Künstler, Bewegungen, Techniken, Auftraggeber, Orte”
Update Guild Project – Drachenwald Coat of Arms :)
Great news! Chrisi, a me
mber of my shire Ad Flumen Caerulum, who is no Guild member and normally doesn’t embroider, made the very first patch for the Drachenwald Coat of Arms project
I love it! It’s lovely!
If you want to know if someone already volunteered to make a patch for your shire/canton/stronghold/… you can find a list of all participants here:
< list of project participants >
What I recently found… book ‘Enzyklopädie der Weltkunst. Das hohe Mittelalter’ :)
I recently found a small book with the name
“Enzyklopädie der Weltkunst. Das hohe Mittelalter.”
and got it for 1€ at an ‘Altwarentandler’ (a small second hand dealer) here in Vienna and I am very happy because it mainly covers the 11th and 12th century and even if it’s rather small – just A5 – it contains many wonderful pictures – for example:
- page 22 – b/w – Christus als Weltenherrscher von der Kirche Saint-Sernin in Toulouse. Flachrelief aus Marmor. Ende 11. Jahrhundert. Höhe 1,31m, Breite 65cm.
- page 24 – b/w – Kapitell einer Doppelsäule des Klosters Saint-Etienne in Toulouse. Stein. Etwa Mitte 12. Jahrhundert. Höhe 32cm, Breite 56cm. Toulouse, Musee des Augustins.
- page 31 – b/w – Das sog. “A” Karls des Großen. Vergoldetes Silber, Edelsteine und Emailarbeit. Reliquiar. Ende 11. Jahrhundert. Höhe 43cm, Breite 40cm. Schatz der Abteikirche in Conques.
- page 51 – b/w – Die Rückkehr des Kreuzfahrers. Skulptur aus der Klosterkirche in Belval (Vosges). Drittes Viertel des 12. Jahrhunderts. Nancy, Franziskaner-Kirche.
- page 65 – color – Episoden aus der Geschichte der Makkabäer. Miniaturen der sogenannten Florentiner Bibel. 11. Jahrhundert. Florenz, Biblioteca Laurenziana.
- page 68 – color – Seelenwägung. Kapitell aus der Kirche Saint-Pierre in Chauvigny (Vienne). 1. Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts.
- page 100 – color – Initiale des zweiten Buches Moses aus der Bibel von Winchester. Malerei auf Pergament. 1150- 1160. Winchester, Cathedral Library.
- page 117 – color – Kaiserfigur. Glasfenster von dem romanischen Dom in Straßburg (Bas-Rhin). Um 1200. Musee de l’oeuvre de la cathedrale.
- page 120+121 – color – Lesepult aus dem Kloster von Alpirsbach. Holz, ursprüngliche Bemalung erhalten. Mitte 12. Jahrhundert. Stadtkirche in Freudenstadt, Figuren etwas unterlebensgroß. + Detail des links abgebildeten Lesepults.
- page 161 – color – Sündenfall. Ausschnitt aus der bemalten Holzdecke in der Klosterkirche St. Michael in Hildesheim. Ende 12. Jahrhundert (Farblich restauriert).
… just to name a few – my personal favourite:
page 185 – color – Reichsadler. Ausschnitt aus einer perlenbesetzten Stickerei. 12. Jahrhundert. Palermo, Domschatz.
The book contains following chapters:
- Romanische Kunst in Frankreich
- Spätromanik und Frühgotik in Frankreich
- Romanische Kunst in den Niederlanden
- Romanische Kunst in Deutschland
- Romanische Kunst in Skandinavien
- Normannische Kunst auf Sizilien
- Romanische Kunst in Italien
- Romanische Kunst in Spanien – Romanische Architektur in Portugal
…and another great information – it’s available at Amazon.de for anyone situated in Germany for less than 1€ (+ shipping)
German Brick Stitch II – 13th century pattern – status: 153h 49min :)
…embroidery status:
153 hours 49 minutes
Tristans ‘German Brick Stitch’ pattern
“13th century brick stitch pattern, revised version”
