Get "Hands on" with Silent Heraldry with Baroness Marie le Mains. Join Baroness Marie and learn some fun, simple ASL signs.
Easy Mead Making with Robert the Bald. ($55) - Join Robert the Bald and learn to make a simple mead that you can then take home! All equipment and ingredients provided. You will take home your mead, along with a 1-gal glass jug, a mini auto-siphon, and tubing. Robert will demonstrate how to rack and bottle the mead when it is finished. You will end up with a gallon of mead and all the equipment needed for future batches! Limited to 8 hands on students (observers welcome)
The following classes are being offered as part of the Costuming Arts and Sciences Expo: | Time | Teacher | Class | Description | | 11:00 - 4:00 | Mistress Alysoun Jeaunterre | Gothic Fitted Dress | | | 11:00 - 12:00 | Lady Christine Chabrier | About those Elizabethan Jackets | | | 12:00 - 1:00 | Lady Alinora Kyte | Indian Chain Stitch and Zardosi Embroidery | $5 donation for Supplies. Limited to 8 hands on students. (observers welcome) | | 1:00 - 2:00 | HL Eithne ni Muirgean | Rectangular construction tunic with variations | A tunic pattern w/o fussy gussets? That fits anyone? That works for Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings? That can become a Tudor smock or shirt? A Rus/Slavic/Greek/Turkish shirt? A coat? And it’s EASY! Leave with a CD with full instructions and layout. Plus your measurements to make your own tunic. Bring your own measuring tape if you have one | | 1:00 - 2:00 | Mistress Mayken Van Der Alst | The German Frau - a quick guide to essential German dress accessories | Find out what's what with Wulsthaube and Steuchlein and German aprons in this one hour class about the two fashion accessories that will establish your German Renaissance look. Intro to smocking via hands-on exercise and hand-out included. No charge. | | 1:00 - 2:00 | Amenhetep sa Amenemhat mes ne Ta-Amen | Egyptian and Sumerian Clothing | | | 1:00 - 4:00 | Lady Alinora Kyte | Spinning Solar | Join Lady Alinora and spend up to 30 minutes spinning on one of her 4 wheels. | | 3:00 - 4:00 | Sarah Shaw | Beginner Tunics | Participants, please bring 2 yards of fabric | | 3:00 - 4:00 | HL Elyn verch Gwilim | Tudor Transition: ladies' dress from 1485-1520. | | | 3:00 - 4:00 | Mistress Kale Adriane | 16th Century Ottoman Costuming: Basics | | | | | | | Display | HL Zafira bint Katz | Safavid Noble Woman's Headgear | | | Display | Baroness Aurelia Cassia | Block Printing Display | |
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