Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani

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Flavia
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Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Angels Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Or semy of strawberry plants, slipped, leaved, and fructed proper, a unicornate horse couchant reguardant vert and for augmentation, on a sinister canton azure four crescents conjoined in saltire horns outward argent.
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Baroness Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani, OL, OP, is a former Baroness of the Angels and a member of the Griffin Freehold.

Flavia was highly active before and during the birth of the Kingdom of Caid. At that time, she was known as "Bjo of Griffin." Many historical pages on this site refer to her by that name.

Persona

Maestra Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani is a Genoese merchant baroness who traveled with her uncle to the great trade markets of the Middle East. Since businesswomen are accepted in her part of the world, she started her own dye trade, gathering all sorts of fabric and dyeing materials from Aleppo to Genoa. It was, of course inevitable that she would one day cross paths with a handsome Welsh merchant (John ap Griffin). Their mutual love of merchanting, travel and each other has led to a thriving business and wonderful marriage of many years. They maintain two homes, one in Genoa and one in Constantinople. They have two daughters: Lady Kathryn du Griffin, who is a talented graphic artist, and Dame Lorissa du Griffin, who had the distinction of being the SCA's youngest monarch as a 10-year-old Princess of Caid.

Offices & Positions

SCA-Wide

• First Chirurgeon in the SCA
• Merchant steward for SCA's Twentieth Year Celebration
• Merchant steward for SCA's Twenty Fifth Year Celebration
• Merchant steward (with John ap Griffin) for Known World Heraldic and Scribal Symposium 2007

Principality/Kingdom

• Founding Chancellor of Collegium Caidis, 10/1979-01/1982
• Founding editor of The Crown Prints
• First Kingdom Chronicler, Kingdom of Caid, 1974 to 01/1981
• First Chirurgeon, Principality of Caid, 09/1975-9/1978

Barony of the Angels

• Tenth Baroness of the Angels with John ap Griffin, 09/13/2008-01/14/2012
• Co-Chronicler, Barony of the Angels, 05/29/2013 to 11/26/2014
• Deputy Chronicler, Barony of the Angels, 11/26/2014-Present

Event Staff

• Contest Autocrat, Angels Anniversary 1976
• Merchant Steward, Medieval Marketplace 2012
• Event Steward, Kingdom Scribal Workshop, August 2015

Classes Taught

• Scribe's Studies Collegium 1980
  • Basic Illumination & Mantling, (co-taught with Eowyn Amberdrake)
  • Basic Illumination Practice & Critique
  • Layout & Design for Scrolls
  • Medieval Color Practices
• Survival in the Current Middle Ages, Collegium Caidis-General Session 1982
• Basic Costume History, Collegium Caidis-General Session 1982
• Coffee Mug Dyeing for Adults, Collegium Caidis Fall 2001
• Dye & Fabric Timeline, Collegium Caidis Fall 2001
• Dyeing Naturally – Workshop, Collegium Caidis Fall 2001
• What Was Period When? A dye and fiber timeline, Collegium Caidis Fall 2003
• Middle Eastern Crazy Quilting, Collegium Caidis Fall 2004
• Dyeing Workshop, Collegium Caidis Spring 2005
• Block-printing Fabric & Paper, Collegium Caidis Fall 2005
• Exploring Period Pigments, Collegium Caidis Spring 2006
• Exploring Period Pigments, Collegium Caidis Spring 2007
• Feather Dyeing With Period Pigments, Collegium Caidis Spring 2008, with co-instructor Antoinette Rosaura de La Villaverde
• Medieval Clothlets: Making Portable Watercolor paints, Collegium Caidis Fall 2008
• Fiber Burn testing or Firebug 101, Collegium Caidis Fall 2008
• Cresting With Period Pigments, Collegium Caidis Fall 2008, with co-instructor Antoinette Rosaura de La Villaverde
• Period Textiles & Fabric Burn Testing, Collegium Caidis 2009
• Period Textiles & Fabric Burn Testing, Collegium Caidis 2010
• Easy Scroll Design, Collegium Caidis 2013
• Playing with Dirt! Fun Making Period Pigments, Great Western War 2015
• Playing with Dirt Part 2! Advanced Period Pigments Making, Great Western War 2015

Competitions

Pentathlon 2013

• Brewing, Medicinal: 2nd Place Apprentice

Pentathlon 2015

• Tools: Scribal: 1st place Journeyman
• Brewing: Varietals: 1st place Apprentice
• Brewing: Varietals: 2nd place Apprentice

Gallery

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  Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani giving a piece of polished malachite to Queen Carol. In background: in green: Alison von Markheim; Contribution by Brion of Bellatrix

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Projects & Publications

Crown Prints Cover art

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  Cover Art for Crow Prints August 2011 by Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani

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  Cover art for Crown Prints Febuary 2011 by Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani

Scrolls

Image Preview	Award	Recipient
	County	Bridget Lucia Mackenzie
	County	Edward Senestre and Mora de Buchanan
	Ducal	Edward Senestre and Mora de Buchanan
	Knight	Davi d'Orléans
	Detail of Knight	Davi d'Orléans
‎	Laurel scroll before calligraphy	Neptha of Thebes
‎	Laurel	Neptha of Thebes
‎	Detail of Laurel	Neptha of Thebes
	Pelican	Raven of Heronsmarsh
	Detail of Pelican	Raven of Heronsmarsh
	Viscountess	Lorissa du Griffin

Shield Painting

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  Shield painting for Kolfinna kottr

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  Shield painting for HRM Kolfinna

More Info

• John and Flavia operate Griffin Dyeworks offering quality dyes and fiber tools, such as natural dyes, earth oxides and dye pigments, as well as roving, yarns, threads, drop spindles,lucets, nålbinding needles, kumihimo forms, silk scarves, dyepots, and many other useful items. Our goal is to serve the needs of spinners, dyers, weavers, felters, knitters, and other fiber artists.