Agnes Wurtman

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Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Calafia Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
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

Memories

How I Found the SCA

Photos

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  Celtic knotwork as laidwork embroidery using four stranded braid, for an Irish Viking. A creative anachronism.
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  A reproduction double spiral fibula (Greek, seventh century BC) replica in brass after a bronze original in the Louvre Museum.
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  A Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.
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  A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.
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  A sprang bag during construction.
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  Sprang bag completed.
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  Card weaving the ram's horn.
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  Mead mustards in process. Demonstration of soaking properties for different mustard seeds.
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  A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends.
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  A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.