Agnes Wurtman

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Lady Agnes Wurtman
Information
Preferred title: Not specified
Their Pronouns: Not specified
Resides: Calafia
Status: Active
Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
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Per bend sinister argent and vert, two mint leaves issuant from the line of division counterchanged
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Persona

An English wool merchant living in Italy. Met a fellow named Leonardo and tripped in his workshop, fell into a time machine and got kidnapped by Vikings.

He wanted to paint my portrait...but then he had to find another Lisa.

Offices & Positions

Current:

  • A&S, Canton of Gallavally, Barony of Dreiburgen (agreement to serve submitted, not yet sworn fealty)

Past:

  • A&S, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
  • Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia


Event Staff

Deputy hay bales autocrat, Potrero War 2012.

Classes Taught

  1. Wire Weaving: all levels
  2. Metalwork: reproducing a Greek geometric period fibula
  3. Card Weaving: beginner
  4. Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead)
  5. Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.)
  6. Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles, mozzarella cheese, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes
  7. Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch
  8. Sprang: beginning and intermediate
  9. Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English

Projects & Publications

Memories

How I Found the SCA

Photos

  • Celtic knotwork as laidwork embroidery using four stranded braid, for an Irish Viking. A creative anachronism.

    Celtic knotwork as laidwork embroidery using four stranded braid, for an Irish Viking. A creative anachronism.

  • A reproduction double spiral fibula (Greek, seventh century BC) replica in brass after a bronze original in the Louvre Museum.

    A reproduction double spiral fibula (Greek, seventh century BC) replica in brass after a bronze original in the Louvre Museum.

  • A Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.

    A Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.

  • A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.

    A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.

  • A sprang bag during construction.

    A sprang bag during construction.

  • Sprang bag completed.

    Sprang bag completed.

  • Card weaving the ram's horn.

    Card weaving the ram's horn.

  • Mead mustards in process. Demonstration of soaking properties for different mustard seeds.

    Mead mustards in process. Demonstration of soaking properties for different mustard seeds.

  • A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends.

    A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends.

  • A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.

    A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.

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