On 5/25/06, Sue Clemenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was laureled back when Artemisia was still a fairly young principality in Atenveldt, and with one (very inactive) exception, am actually the "oldest" laurel in the whole state of Montana.
I got mine at 3:00 in the morning. We had one of those forever courts Trimaris used to have. I think they now have a cut-off time. Half the court left to party. The other half had gone to bed. Only a few strays were left, so it was low keyed. The Laurel Circle in Trimaris (Florida) was very small then, around a dozen I think, and a fairly new kingdom. No one else did it, or even researched it. I did the Jane Seymour sleeves with a magnifying glass and graph paper. We had no Internet, only books to go by. I was a librarian at the time, so that was handy. Love that ILL too. My "masterwork piece" was a linen coif done in silk, Blackwork touched with gold, that I gave my Laurel. Duchess Elspeth is Elizabethan, I'm 15th century. It toured this country in a display and twice in England as a replica. The design came from a pillow at V/A. At any rate, peerages back then were pretty much all drive-by's, with a
little more attention paid to the Chiv. No warning, no special outfits, no vigils, nada. Wham, bam, thank you ma'am...next? sort of thing.
The knights got all kinds of attention when elevated...vigils, cleansing, the whole bit. The other peers got a good luck back then. Now they can have something special only if they let it be known. I have always done all kinds of crafts. I grew up in the country where nothing was wasted. I had to make a handkerchief for each of my grandmothers for Christmas every year. It could be embroidered, have crochet or tatted lace, drawn work, or whatever, but it had to be special. I learned all kinds of things to prevent being bored. Aspasia Moonwind _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
