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Image:Tool ends.jpg|Tool ends, handmade for carving soapstone molds
Image:Dot-and-circle in use.jpg|Using the dot-and-circle tool I made to carve the Gyldenholt Palio site token mold
Image:The machine cropped.jpg|Period rotary tool for intaglio, made with ample help from Roger Wells and a bit of well-aimed fire from Luther Anshelm
Image:Angels award medallions.jpg|Athena, Seraph, and Apollo Medallions for the [[Angels|Barony of Angels]]
Image:Angels award medallions.jpg|Athena, Seraph, and Apollo Medallions for the [[Angels|Barony of Angels]]
Image:Ed II Mora II obverse.jpg|Largesse Tokens, for [[Edward II and Mora II]]
Image:Ed II Mora II obverse.jpg|Largesse Tokens, for [[Edward II and Mora II]]
Image:Ed II Mora II reverse.jpg|Largesse Tokens for [[Edward II and Mora II]]
Image:Ed II Mora II reverse.jpg|Largesse Tokens for [[Edward II and Mora II]]
Image:Wilhelm Thaleia.jpg|Largesse Tokens for [[Wilhelm and Thaleia]]Image:Cuttlebone 1.jpg|Cuttlebone mold for Signum Regni (Eilidh and Mansur), beside documentation for a similar multiple-product mold.
Image:Robin hood coins.jpg|Appreciation tokens made for Robin Hood Archery and Thrown Weapons event, with mold.
Image:Honor Servys.jpg|Rings with text: Honor Servys, and foliate decoration.
Image:Hunting Horn.jpg|Small replica of a period pewter token
Image:Runes bracelet close 1.jpg|Rune bracelet, showing the individual rune pendants (less than .5 cm across)
Image:Greek dolls.jpg|Greek-style jointed dolls
Image:Greek dolls.jpg|Greek-style jointed dolls
Image:Jointed dolls thru ages.jpg|Jointed dolls: late-period fashion doll with moving arms, Coptic bone doll, and Greek jointed doll
Image:Freya 1.jpg|Greek-style jointed doll dressed in Viking style, sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.
Image:Odin 1.jpg|Greek-style jointed clay doll dressed in Viking style, also sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.
Image:BoGs.jpg|Various Greek-style jointed dolls in different period dress
Image:Siegfried 2.jpg|Siegfried the Highly Inappropriate Viking, jointed doll in the Greek style, just for fun.
Image:Medusa intaglio.jpg|Medusa intaglio
Image:Medusa intaglio.jpg|Medusa intaglio
Image:Wilhelm Thaleia.jpg|Largesse Tokens for [[Wilhelm and Thaleia]]
Image:Amethyst back-carved laurel close.jpg|Amethyst back-carved with Laurel wreath
Image:Flourite laurel close.jpg|Laurel carved in flourite
Image:Carnelian pel-laurel.jpg|Carnelian combination Pelican and Laurel
Image:Honey agate beehive close.jpg|Very small honey-colored agate beehive with bees.
Image:Pelican 2.jpg|Carnelian Pelican
Image:Rose quartz rugosa 2.jpg|Rosa rugosa (a period variety of rose), carved in rose quartz
Image:Ruby Hand of Fatima 1.jpg|Hand of Fatima carved in ruby
Image:5-23-2012.jpg|Assorted intaglio
Image:6-7-2012.jpg|Assorted intaglio
Image:7-4-2012 i33.jpg|Two pieces based on i33, a very early sword handbook
Image:Crystal angel with dime.jpg|Back-carved angel in the Carolingian intaglio tradition, with American dime for scale.
Image:Quartz back-carved pelican close.jpg|Back-carved quartz Pelican intaglio in the Carolingian style
Image:Lion - HRM Patrick.jpg|Hematite intaglio of King Patrick's lion and star, set on pewter (also made by me)
Image:Serpentine tree 1.jpg|Serpentine tree intaglio
Image:Wood jasper crossbow low glare.jpg|Jasper intaglio crossbow archer
 
Image:Reliquary 1.jpg|Copper-covered cedar reliquary
Image:Reliquary 2.jpg|Reliquary end view, showing pearl-bed setting for Pennsic battlefield 4-leafed clover relic and intaglio of my arms in a stone I also shaped from a slab.
Image:St. Corrigan's Map 1.jpg|Reliquary of St. Corrigan's Map and Compass.
 
Image:Brass castings 1.jpg|Cast brass belt buckle from Lewis chess piece and chain hanger from find on Saaremaa
 
Image:Amber w bees 3.jpg|Amber pendant in pewter bee setting, honeycomb pattern visible through amber piece. All work by hand, Dominican amber shaped from raw chunk, pewter cast in hand-carved soapstone mold.
 
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Revision as of 15:39, 16 January 2016

Photo
Rekon.jpg
Rekon and her daughter
Information
Preferred title: Not specified
Their Pronouns: Not specified
Resides: Dreiburgen
Status: Active
Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
RekonDevice.jpg
Sable, on a bend sinister vert fimbriated between two increscents three arrows palewise argent
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The Honorable Lady Rekon of Saaremaa (formerly named Rekon tulema Kuresaare) joined the SCA in the summer of 2007, after attending a St. Corrigan's Day event in Gallavally. She participates in archery (handbow and crossbow), unarmored combat, intaglio carving, pewtercasting and other forms of jewelry-making, costuming (especially Estonian Viking era), brewing, jointed doll-making, period board games, and generally making ALL THE THINGS. She loves to share what she has learned and to learn more, especially in unusual topics.

Persona

Rekon is from the area now known as Estonia, during the pre-Christian era, in the 10th century. Since the Maahravas (as they called themselves before being named the Eistlanders by the Vikings) generally cremated their dead, did not read or write, and left very few representations of humans, the reconstruction of what she might have worn, done, and believed has been an interesting challenge.

Rekon of Saaremaa is the daughter of a successful Estonian merchant on the island of Saaremaa (also known as Osel), living there at the peak of its prosperity. Her mother died in childbirth when she was still young, and her father, uninclined to remarry, raised her to his trade. She has traveled much of the world by way of the trade routes along the Amber and Silk Roads, and in the process, being naturally curious, she has learned a number of trades and skills usually denied to women, at least in some parts of the world. Her family wealth derives primarily from gathering and trading the ugly yellow floating stuff from her native beaches to the Vikings for shiny, shiny silver.

She is apprenticed to Mistress Melisande de Frayne of Starkhafn.

Offices & Positions

Event Staff

Classes Taught

Competitions

Caidan Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2015

  • Member, Team Greater >, winning Pentathlon team
  • Team Recognitions: Cast Metal, Surface: Engraving/Chasing

Caidan Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2013

  • 1st Place Artisan, Functional, Toys
  • 2nd Place Artisan, Performance, Persona Presentation
  • 2nd Place Artisan, Visual, Jewelry Other
  • 1st Place Journeyman, Visual, Surface Decoration Other

Caidan Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2011

  • 1st Place Apprentice, Compositional Arts: Poetry
  • 1st Place Apprentice, Culinary Arts: Subtleties
  • 1st Place Journeyman, Fiber Arts: Costume: Review
  • 2nd Place Apprentice, Functional Arts: Herb Craft: Comfort or Cosmetic
  • 2nd Place Apprentice, Functional Arts: Tools: Scribal Tools
  • 1st Place Journeyman, Visual Arts: Jewelry: Other Item
  • 1st Place Apprentice, Visual Arts: Woodcarving
  • 1st Place Apprentice, Visual Arts: Surface Decoration: Other Item
  • People's Choice winner

Caidan Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2009

  • 1st Place Apprentice, Jewelry: Lapidary
  • 1st Place Apprentice, Games/Toys
  • 2nd Place Apprentice, Brewing: Beers

Projects

  • Tool ends, handmade for carving soapstone molds

    Tool ends, handmade for carving soapstone molds

  • Using the dot-and-circle tool I made to carve the Gyldenholt Palio site token mold

    Using the dot-and-circle tool I made to carve the Gyldenholt Palio site token mold

  • Period rotary tool for intaglio, made with ample help from Roger Wells and a bit of well-aimed fire from Luther Anshelm

    Period rotary tool for intaglio, made with ample help from Roger Wells and a bit of well-aimed fire from Luther Anshelm

  • Athena, Seraph, and Apollo Medallions for the Barony of Angels

    Athena, Seraph, and Apollo Medallions for the Barony of Angels

  • Largesse Tokens, for Edward II and Mora II

    Largesse Tokens, for Edward II and Mora II

  • Largesse Tokens for Edward II and Mora II

    Largesse Tokens for Edward II and Mora II

  • Cuttlebone mold for Signum Regni (Eilidh and Mansur), beside documentation for a similar multiple-product mold.

    Cuttlebone mold for Signum Regni (Eilidh and Mansur), beside documentation for a similar multiple-product mold.

  • Appreciation tokens made for Robin Hood Archery and Thrown Weapons event, with mold.

    Appreciation tokens made for Robin Hood Archery and Thrown Weapons event, with mold.

  • Rings with text: Honor Servys, and foliate decoration.

    Rings with text: Honor Servys, and foliate decoration.

  • Small replica of a period pewter token

    Small replica of a period pewter token

  • Rune bracelet, showing the individual rune pendants (less than .5 cm across)

    Rune bracelet, showing the individual rune pendants (less than .5 cm across)

  • Greek-style jointed dolls

    Greek-style jointed dolls

  • Jointed dolls: late-period fashion doll with moving arms, Coptic bone doll, and Greek jointed doll

    Jointed dolls: late-period fashion doll with moving arms, Coptic bone doll, and Greek jointed doll

  • Greek-style jointed doll dressed in Viking style, sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.

    Greek-style jointed doll dressed in Viking style, sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.

  • Greek-style jointed clay doll dressed in Viking style, also sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.

    Greek-style jointed clay doll dressed in Viking style, also sold to Lofotr Viking Museum curator for children's display.

  • Various Greek-style jointed dolls in different period dress

    Various Greek-style jointed dolls in different period dress

  • Siegfried the Highly Inappropriate Viking, jointed doll in the Greek style, just for fun.

    Siegfried the Highly Inappropriate Viking, jointed doll in the Greek style, just for fun.

  • Medusa intaglio

    Medusa intaglio

  • Amethyst back-carved with Laurel wreath

    Amethyst back-carved with Laurel wreath

  • Laurel carved in flourite

    Laurel carved in flourite

  • Carnelian combination Pelican and Laurel

    Carnelian combination Pelican and Laurel

  • Very small honey-colored agate beehive with bees.

    Very small honey-colored agate beehive with bees.

  • Carnelian Pelican

    Carnelian Pelican

  • Rosa rugosa (a period variety of rose), carved in rose quartz

    Rosa rugosa (a period variety of rose), carved in rose quartz

  • Hand of Fatima carved in ruby

    Hand of Fatima carved in ruby

  • Assorted intaglio

    Assorted intaglio

  • Assorted intaglio

    Assorted intaglio

  • Two pieces based on i33, a very early sword handbook

    Two pieces based on i33, a very early sword handbook

  • Back-carved angel in the Carolingian intaglio tradition, with American dime for scale.

    Back-carved angel in the Carolingian intaglio tradition, with American dime for scale.

  • Back-carved quartz Pelican intaglio in the Carolingian style

    Back-carved quartz Pelican intaglio in the Carolingian style

  • Hematite intaglio of King Patrick's lion and star, set on pewter (also made by me)

    Hematite intaglio of King Patrick's lion and star, set on pewter (also made by me)

  • Serpentine tree intaglio

    Serpentine tree intaglio

  • Jasper intaglio crossbow archer

    Jasper intaglio crossbow archer

  • Copper-covered cedar reliquary

    Copper-covered cedar reliquary

  • Reliquary end view, showing pearl-bed setting for Pennsic battlefield 4-leafed clover relic and intaglio of my arms in a stone I also shaped from a slab.

    Reliquary end view, showing pearl-bed setting for Pennsic battlefield 4-leafed clover relic and intaglio of my arms in a stone I also shaped from a slab.

  • Reliquary of St. Corrigan's Map and Compass.

    Reliquary of St. Corrigan's Map and Compass.

  • Cast brass belt buckle from Lewis chess piece and chain hanger from find on Saaremaa

    Cast brass belt buckle from Lewis chess piece and chain hanger from find on Saaremaa

  • Amber pendant in pewter bee setting, honeycomb pattern visible through amber piece. All work by hand, Dominican amber shaped from raw chunk, pewter cast in hand-carved soapstone mold.

    Amber pendant in pewter bee setting, honeycomb pattern visible through amber piece. All work by hand, Dominican amber shaped from raw chunk, pewter cast in hand-carved soapstone mold.

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