I’m back with yet another excerpt from the truly wonderful Harley Manuscript 6149, a compilation of heraldy-related items bound into a book by one Adam Loutfut in or around 1494 in Scotland. This time, I’d like to write about folii 124r-126r, “Þe vii deidis of honour and of þair vii crownnys and of quhat materis […]
Month: March 2021
St. Birgitta’s Coif
Following the instructions in the video by Morgan Donner, I made myself a St. Birgitta’s coif. I am extremely new to sewing, so this is the most complicated thing I’ve made (outside of pincushions), and as such, I dispensed with the elaborate needle lace/netting that Morgan did to secure the two halves of the coif […]
Virtual Herald’s Point – February 2021
Being very new to the SCA, and of course having joined during the middle of the plague, I haven’t been able to attend any events in person. I certainly haven’t been able to attend any wars. One of the things I really wanted to do, however, was register a name, a device, and a badge […]
Stinkin’ Cute
I am a brand new, baby herald in the SCA and am just beginning to explore the corpus of historical heraldic art. While I was participating in the recent Virtual Herald’s Point as an artist, I came across the Harley Manuscript 6149 at the British Library. The Harley MS 6149 consists of a number of […]