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{{Populace|photo = [[ | {{Populace|photo = [[File:Italian garb.jpg|300px]]| photocaption = Lady Agnes Wurtman| location = [[Dreiburgen]], formerly [[Calafia]] | status = Active | device = [[File:Agnes wurtman device.jpg|300px]] | devicecaption = Per bend sinister argent and vert, two mint leaves issuant from the line of division counterchanged}} | ||
==Persona== | ==Persona== | ||
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==Offices & Positions== | ==Offices & Positions== | ||
Current: | Current: | ||
* | *Largesse Coordinator, court of Baroness [[Tyna Blackrune]] of Dreiburgen | ||
Past: | Past: | ||
* | *Arts & Sciences Officer, Barony of Dreiburgen | ||
*Arts & Sciences Officer, Canton of Gallavally, Barony of Dreiburgen | |||
*Bard of Dreiburgen, 2017 | |||
*Arts & Sciences Officer, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia | |||
*Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia | *Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia | ||
*Lady-in-Waiting, [[Patrick II and Kara II]], 06/02/2012-11/03/2012 | |||
==Event Staff== | ==Event Staff== | ||
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# Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead) | # Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead) | ||
# Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.) | # Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.) | ||
# Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles, mozzarella cheese, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes | # Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles (vinegar method and brine method, mozzarella cheese, lemon cheese, queso blanco, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes | ||
# Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch | # Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch | ||
# Sprang: beginning and intermediate | # Sprang: beginning and intermediate | ||
# Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English | # Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English | ||
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For additional cooking classes see below. | |||
==Projects & Publications== | ==Projects & Publications== | ||
=== Tokens === | |||
* Constructed wire woven instructor tokens for Potrero War, 2014 & 2015. | |||
* Braided event tokens for College of St. Artemas, 2015. | |||
* Constructed braided, beaded, and wire woven event tokens for Canton of Tanwayour (multiple years 2011 - 2016). | |||
=== Newsletters === | |||
* Provided 7 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, July 2016. | |||
* Provided 2 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, January 2017. | |||
* Wrote article on dry cured meats for the Dreiburgen newsletter, March 2017. | |||
=== Pentathlon === | |||
* Team leader for the Gallavally Gang, 2017 Caid Pentathlon second place team. | |||
=== Webinars === | |||
Initiated a webinar format as a supplement to Canton of Gallavally A&S classes. First webinar was held July 18, 2016 on the Skype platform; topic was dill pickles. Content included a class handout with references in .txt format, two recipes in .txt format, two video demonstrations, and interactive coaching. Class attendees included a visitor from Drachenwald.<br> | |||
Gallavally A&S webinar topics: | |||
* July 2016: dill pickles | |||
* August 2016: mead mustard | |||
* September 2016: lemon cheese | |||
* October 2016: [dark] | |||
* November 2016: tej | |||
* December 2016: butter | |||
* January 2017: yogurt | |||
* February 2017: dry cured meats | |||
* March 2017: [dark] | |||
=== Songs and Poetry === | |||
* [[Brew Entry Number 9]] | |||
==Memories== | ==Memories== | ||
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File:November 2013 bracelet.jpg|A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends. | File:November 2013 bracelet.jpg|A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends. | ||
File:Viking helmet.jpg|A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet. | File:Viking helmet.jpg|A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet. | ||
File:Basil and spearmint.jpg|Low water gardening for herbalist pursuits: a capillary wick system to raise basil and mint. | |||
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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:
- Largesse Coordinator, court of Baroness Tyna Blackrune of Dreiburgen
Past:
- Arts & Sciences Officer, Barony of Dreiburgen
- Arts & Sciences Officer, Canton of Gallavally, Barony of Dreiburgen
- Bard of Dreiburgen, 2017
- Arts & Sciences Officer, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
- Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
- Lady-in-Waiting, Patrick II and Kara II, 06/02/2012-11/03/2012
Event Staff
Deputy hay bales autocrat, Potrero War 2012.
Classes Taught
- Wire Weaving: all levels
- Metalwork: reproducing a Greek geometric period fibula
- Card Weaving: beginner
- Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead)
- Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.)
- Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles (vinegar method and brine method, mozzarella cheese, lemon cheese, queso blanco, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes
- Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch
- Sprang: beginning and intermediate
- Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English
For additional cooking classes see below.
Projects & Publications
Tokens
- Constructed wire woven instructor tokens for Potrero War, 2014 & 2015.
- Braided event tokens for College of St. Artemas, 2015.
- Constructed braided, beaded, and wire woven event tokens for Canton of Tanwayour (multiple years 2011 - 2016).
Newsletters
- Provided 7 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, July 2016.
- Provided 2 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, January 2017.
- Wrote article on dry cured meats for the Dreiburgen newsletter, March 2017.
Pentathlon
- Team leader for the Gallavally Gang, 2017 Caid Pentathlon second place team.
Webinars
Initiated a webinar format as a supplement to Canton of Gallavally A&S classes. First webinar was held July 18, 2016 on the Skype platform; topic was dill pickles. Content included a class handout with references in .txt format, two recipes in .txt format, two video demonstrations, and interactive coaching. Class attendees included a visitor from Drachenwald.
Gallavally A&S webinar topics:
- July 2016: dill pickles
- August 2016: mead mustard
- September 2016: lemon cheese
- October 2016: [dark]
- November 2016: tej
- December 2016: butter
- January 2017: yogurt
- February 2017: dry cured meats
- March 2017: [dark]
Songs and Poetry
Memories
Photos
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 Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.
A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.
A sprang bag during construction.
Sprang bag completed.
Card weaving the ram's horn.
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 very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.
Low water gardening for herbalist pursuits: a capillary wick system to raise basil and mint.
