Court Baron Coronet

This month I was honored to create a Court Baron coronet for my long time friend, now His Excellency, Rhiannon Elandris of Glyndyfrdwy. This was a special treat for me because to me Rhiannon has always been a perfect example of what the SCA is all about. I always enjoy the creative process of my work, but it is nice to create a piece that not only gives me a creative outlet but is heartfelt. I think it adds to the process. The coronet was handed out with success at Harvest Raid 2016.

The coronet is tooled and painted leather. The black is leather dye and all the colors are painted. The front shows Rhiannon's device and the Golden Lances are a nod to the Order of the Golden Lance, an award of high merit (of which Rhiannon is a member) for equestrian prowess.

I used a different method for mounting the pearls that involved drilling holes in the leather and mounting the pearls on posts. This improved on my last attempt where I simply mounted the posts to the back of the coronet and applied a leather backing. As seen here: First coronet attempt...

 

Heraldic belt

This was a project I wanted to work on for a while and was a long overdue second payment for some seamstress work. It is a heraldic belt for Baroness Miriel du Lac (SCA). The belt is tooled and painted leather (the main belt is dyed black). The hardware is from Billy and Charile's. White is always a difficult color to work with (at least for me), and I hate to fall back on the "pictures don't do it justice" defense, but in this case the photos do fall a bit short. The shells and pearls are shaded in gray and highlighted with mother of pearl white. It is a rather striking effect in person. I was not too certain about the black dye for the belt but took a chance. I now wish I had gone for blue. Overall I am pretty happy and I think Miriel enjoyed the belt as well.

Fun medallion time!

I had some fun working on this new medallion. Simple tooled and painted and leather based on the badge for the AEthelmearc Minister of Arts and Sciences badge (SCA). I created two of them to hand out at the Aethelmearc A&S Faire (2106).

One More New Medallion...

By special request I made a Green Comet (friendship award). BMDL (SCA). I really like how this one came out. Tooled and painted leather. Green and black cording was donated.

New award medallions

Life has been busy as of late but I did manage to squeeze out a few award medallions. These are tooled, dyed, and painted leather. They are pretty simple but I like how they came out. I gave these away as gifts at the Delftwood and BMDL (Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands) investitures (SCA). I am also working on an extended tutorial showing how I make these. I hope to have that done and posted this week.

For Delftwood: Shown are, Order of Capstan (Arts and Science, pictured upper left), Order of the Whirligig (Youth service, pictured middle right), and Order of the Millguard (Martial Arts, pictured lower left).  

For BMDL: Shown are a Red Comet (Martial Arts), and a Gold Comet (Service).

Baronial court "stuff" chest

This is a project that I just pounded out for my first Baronial Court. The leather work is actually part of an old project that I never finished but figured I could give it new life in this project.

The trunk is a off the shelf "hobby" trunk that I stained. I also built and inserted wooden dividers to help organize the stuff inside.I left the dividers plain wood because I thought it looked nice, but perhaps it just make its look unfinished. I am not a woodworker or an artist, but it is at least functional.

 The leather work is tooled, the background dyed with leather dye, and the dragon painted. The leather dye has started to darken so the green and black does not stand out as much as it could. Partially because of the age of the project, but also because of the original green dye I was using at the time.