On Sunday, 4/15, from 12:30 to 2 p.m., m’lord Shigüsütei (mka Natso) will still be teaching a free intro class on the Classical Mongolian Script and its alphabets.

Unfortunately, there will now be a large crane working on the original building, which will take up some of the metered street parking on Walnut Street and which will close the building.

But the new building is only a few yards away. The new classroom is Seminar Room B in the GORGEOUS Fisher Fine Arts Library https://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/locations/fisher-fine-arts-library-anne-and-jerome. The Fisher Fine Arts Library is located at 220 South 34^th Street, between Walnut and Spruce Streets. The back of the building is on 34^th Street, so you have to go around the building to enter through its main entrance. The main entrance has several steps in order to enter into the building. To use the accessible entrance, please contact Livia at exchequer at Ivyeinrust dot EastKingdom dot org beforehand so she can meet you at the accessible entrance with her keycard.

To get to Seminar Room B from the main entrance of the Fisher Fine Arts Library, go through the double doors leading into the Fine Arts library and let the security guard know you are here for the class in Seminar Room B. Please note that this is a GORGEOUS but very quiet library. The Seminar Room is on a separate floor within the Fine Arts Library, so we won’t need to be as quiet during the class.

If you do not have a Penn ID, please send your modern name to Livia to add to the security guard’s list. Her e-mail address is exchequer at Ivyeinrust dot EastKingdom dot org.

Please note that there is also no parking attached to this new building, but on a Sunday there is usually plenty of metered street parking on Chestnut, Walnut, 33^rd, and sometimes on 34^th Street.

See you Sunday! – Philly 215-387-5825

Reminder that the monthly Craft & Chat Meeting for December will be on Sunday, 12/17, 1-5 p.m. in the Meyerson Conference Room on the second floor of Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut Street) on Penn’s campus. Please come and bring your projects and stories.

This is the room where we generally hold the monthly Bailiwick meeting. It has good light and tables, and comfortable seats. Because this is in the library, please do not bring a project too messy or involving fire.

If you have never attended one of our meetings before and are not a member of the Penn community, please send your modern name to Livia (exchequer at Ivyeinrust dot EastKingdom dot org) so that she can add your name to the security guard’s list.

Parking is free on Walnut Street on Sundays. The place is also easily accessible by public transportation.

This Sunday is the monthly craft and chat gathering in the Meyerson Conference Room on the second floor of Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut Street) on Penn’s campus. Please come and bring your projects and stories.

The remaining meetings for the end of the year will be from 1 pm to 5 pm on Sundays 11/26 and 12/17, same place.

This is the room where we generally hold the monthly Bailiwick meeting. It has good light and tables, and comfortable seats. Because this is in the library please do not bring a project too messy or involving fire.

If you have never attended one of our meetings before and are not a member of the Penn community, please send your modern name to Livia (exchequer at Ivyeinrust dot EastKingdom dot org) so that she can add your name to the security guard’s list.

Parking is free on Walnut Street on Sundays. The place is also easily accessible by public transportation.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Enjoy your day!

Brunissende

We are starting a monthly meeting to work on portable projects together.

The meetings for the end of the year will be from 1 pm to 5 pm on Sundays on 9/24, 10/22, 11/26, and 12/1, in the Meyerson Conference Room on the second floor of Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut Street) on Penn’s campus.

This is the room where we generally hold the Bailiwick Business Meeting. It has good light and tables, and comfortable seats. Because this is in the library, please do not bring a project too messy or involving fire.

If you have never attended one of the Bailiwick meetings before and are not a member of the Penn community, please send your name to Livia (exchequer at Ivyeinrust dot EastKingdom dot org) so she can add your name to the security guard’s list.

Parking is free on Walnut Street on Sundays. The place is also easily accessible by public transportation.

“Divergent Arcadias: Madrid, 1605” by Steve Dolph (Spanish & Portuguese, Penn).
on Monday, 11/7, 5:15 – 6:30 p.m.
in Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut St.), 6th floor, Class of 78 Pavilion.
Part of an ongoing series on the History of the Book aka “Material Texts”, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of English.

“Buddhism & Medicine in Medieval China” by C. Pierce Salguero, PhD (PSU Abington).
on Tuesday, 11/8, noon to 1:30 p.m.
in McNeil Building (3718 Locust Walk), Room 103.
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies.

“The Queerness of Christian Sex: Paul, Augustine, Petrarch” by Melissa Sanchez, PhD (English, Penn).
on Wednesday, 11/9, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
in Van Pelt Library (3420 Walnut St.), Rm 627.

“The Gordion Archaeological Project: Ancient Economic Practices of the Phrygian Kingdom” by Ayşe Gürsan-Salzmann, PhD (Penn Museum).
on Thursday, 11/10, at 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.
in Penn Museum (3260 South St.), Nevil Classroom.

“Divination in the Ancient World”, Center for Ancient Studies symposium.
on Thursday, 11/10, at 6 – 7:30 p.m. and Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
in Penn Museum (3260 South St.)

Please join us for a 1-day workshop on making the Skjoldehamn Hood. This class will take place on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, at noon. It will be in West Philly. Class address will be sent in a private email to those who register. This hood, found in a grave in Northern Norway in the first half of the 20^th century, shows a side of 11^th-century Viking clothing that is practical, simple, economical, and sparsely elegant. We’ll be looking at two possible ways of constructing this hood, one strictly period, and one that introduces a couple of fairly unobtrusive flourishes and upgrades only possible post-period.

There will be sewing machines and cutting supplies on hand to actually sew the piece in the workshop. However, if you want to focus on pattern making so as to hand sew it after the workshop, that’s fine too!

Space is limited to 6 people max. If you are interested, please contact me to reserve a spot at badwolf5 at gmail dot com. To RSVP, please include your name and e-mail address. If you want more info or have any questions beyond what I give below about fabric needs, please drop me a note!

Fabric:

Please bring along the fabric you plan on using. The original is made of an unfelted plainweave wool. It was unlined. Period-appropriate materials would be plain weave or simple twill wools or linen. However, feel free to put the C in SCA. Do you want a light version for the spring/summer? Make it linen! Do you want it lined? Bring enough cloth for lining (I suggest a light linen). Prefer working in felted wool, or have some hanging about? It’ll work. The choice is yours.

How much cloth will you need? Before addressing the idea of getting fresh cuts of fabric, it should be noted that this is a great project for using up larger scraps. Mine is pieced together from two squares 14×14” and a 16×54” strips left over from a cloak. The long strip could easily have been pieced itself. So if you want to wrangle your larger scraps and bring some rather than fresh cuts, that could work.

If you are bringing fresh cut fabric, here’s what you’ll need. If you can find 54” wide fabric, bring 1.25 yards; if you can only find 45” wide cloth, bring 2 yards. These measurements go for the lining as well. Bring thread to match!

Happy winter solstice!

Ælfric Fitzhugh

To all who may be interested and eligible, the Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust is searching for a new Minister of Arts and Sciences.

If you are interested, we are hoping to fill the position as an order of business at the June 18th Meeting. But if you have any interest please contact livia.petralia at gmail

You will have at least one deputy and people to help.

Responsibilities of the position include:
Quarterly reports (March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1)
Active membership

And then it’s useful for you to support the Arts and Sciences according to the wishes of the group and to no further extent than your time and energy accommodate.

see also moas.eastkingdom.org

Thank you,
Livia Petralia
Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust, seneschal

Calligraphy Gathering!

All are welcome!

My guess is that more SCA scrolls get scribed with a metal dip pen and ink than any other technique. It has the advantage of simulating a true quill’s dispensing of liquid ink, which is quite period. So let’s make a mess while exploring period letter forms some more! Materials provided (including markers as a fallback), or bring your favorites.- Reijnier Verplanck

Sunday, 5/31/15 1-5 pm

at the Wolff Home in Havertown

Rsvp requested so we have enough supplies.
at scadian at hotmail

Hail, Bhakail! Ave, Ivy! Bonjorn, Icorn!

For all the budding scribes out there or if you just like to look at scanned medieval manuscripts, the University of Pennsylvania Library has a new, free website with tons of high-quality scanned images of manuscripts, which is open to the world, not only to the Penn community:

http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-libraries-launches-openn-digital-resources-online-platform

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/

Not all of the images are in the SCA time period, but many are.

Happy viewing!

Gentles, one and all!

Do you need a simple project to teach you how to sew garb? Do you want to learn the basic elements of early Rus clothing, its construction, and its cultural significance? Do you want a new set of simple, but elegant foundational garb?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, we’re excited to inform you of an upcoming series of garb workshops in the Bailiwick of Ivyeinrust taught by Katerina Groznaya. Over the course of four sessions, you will learn to create a full base set of Rus garb for either gender expression.

The full course will be as follows:

1/12 — Rubakha (undershirt) for male or female persona

1/19 — Navershnik (calf-length overdress) for female persona

1/26 – Porty (pants) for male persona

2/2 — Finishing up: Trim, Discussion of head- and footwear, and Questions.

Please find attached to this e-mail a registration form and a full description of the cloth you’ll need to bring. We’ll only have spots for 8 people, so RSVP promptly. We will also be maintaining a waitlist in case of drops. Depending upon enrollment, we will either be meeting at Martyn de Halliwell’s shop or in the West Philadelphia area.

If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me or Katya

We look forward to hearing from you!

Ælfric FitzHugh

— registration form and cloth buying guide —

Registration Form:

Name:________ Mundane Name:_______

E-mail: ______________

What you’ll need:

General fabric notes:

In addition to the omnipresent and much-used linen, the Rus had access to a wide variety of fabrics including cotton from Persia; wool via Byzantium, including wool plaids, which were quite a luxury; silk was primarily the domain of the wealthy, and would only have been of the crepe or raw weave rather than a smoother satin finish; finally brocades from China via Persia were known, but were rare and therefore high status.

What you’ll need for individual projects:

1/12 — Rubakha (undershirt) for male or female persona

Measure from shoulder to hips (for male) or to ankles (for female).
Double measurement and add 1 yard for sleeves.
Cloth choice: Light, solid color of lightweight linen or cotton.

1/19 — Navershnik (calf-length overdress) for female persona

Pick a width of fabric that will account for short sleeves and body (instructor uses 45-48” wide fabric)

Measure from shoulder to under the knee or mid-calf and double.

Cloth choice: Solid colors of heavier weight linen or cotton. Wool is also an option, specifically felted wool rather than woven.

1/26 –Porty (pants) for male persona

Measure from waist to just below the ankle and double.
Cloth choice: Heavy linen or woven wool. Because there is little chance to trim this garment, it could in period be made with stripes or plaids in addition to bold solids.

2/2 — Finishing up: Trim, Discussion of head- and footwear, and Questions.

Necklines, hems, side-seams of garments were trimmed so as to add additional visual interest. Bring a respectable amount of trim for this purpose. Trimming was omni-present and prolific, so don’t worry about bringing too much!

Trim choice: tablet woven and embroidered trim was common, trim that can emulate this aesthetic would be ideal, figurative and black- or red-work trim were also known.

AVOID: Trim with metallic thread.