Updated 21.10.01
In the current middle ages, I am known as Lady Rowanna Nachteule. My device is now the background for this page.
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For the heraldically inclined, it is:
Sable, a sword bendwise argent between two owls close or
The image is a scan of the leather rendition of my device. I had intended to attach it to my breastplate (about a million years ago) but decided that I didn't want people hitting it with their swords. I've lost the leatherworking tools that I used to make it, so making a new one would be a little difficult right now...
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| The Black Tudor dress. Photo taken at a friend's wedding in August, 1998 The colour balance in this photo is shot. The dress fabric is the same as the background for the lace scan (below) |
Rowanna cooking breakfast Rowany Festival AS XXXIII (1999) |
Rowanna in armour, circa 1990 |
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| Angela with the Mead Guard ferret. (1990) | Lace for ruff trim | |
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| A copy of the Dorothea Sabine dress, unfinished, at the Politarchopolis Baronial Investiture, September 2000. | Later in the evening, with the collar undone | The fabric used to make the dress. The colours are still not right in this scan, but they're closer than in the dress photos. From top to bottom, they are the material for the sleeves and hanging sleeve lining, the dress, and the underskirt. |
| SCA | The official site for the SCA (Inc) |
| The Kingdom of the West | The Kingdom that Lochac belongs to |
| The Kingdom of Drachenwald | The SCA in Europe |
| The Principality of Lochac | The SCA in Australia |
| The Barony of Politarchopolis | Canberra. My home Barony (as opposed to Riverhaven, which was my original Barony). |
| The SCA in Victoria | Stormhold and other groups in the area. |
| Barony of Arn Hold | A branch of the Society for Creative Anachronism located in Boise, Idaho. This site has photos of the equestrian activities at Raptor War, AS XXXIII |
| Johann von Rothenburg | Stuff on mediaeval Germany OK. It's a Landsknecht page. |
| Eric's new improved Batpage | Eric the Fruitbat. Singer and peddant. Filks whenever he can get away with it... :) |
| Regalia of Lochac | Lochac stuff. I keep links like this here just in case Netscape loses my bookmarks... |
| Richard Krajewski | Richard de la Croix, Knight, Laurel, Baron Rowany |
Horse things now has a page of its own. I've moved it to here
Some useful books (not all cover the SCA period) from Amazon.com
Patterns of Fashion : The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C1560-1620
Pattern of Fashion 1: Englishwoman's Dresses and Their Construction: c.1660-1860
Patterns of Fashion 2 : Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction C.1860-1940
Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress, Medieval-1500
Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress 1500-1800
Period Costume for Stage & Screen : Patterns for Women's Dress, 1800-1909
Authentic Everyday Dress of the Renaissance : All 154 Plates from the 'Trachtenbuch'
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