Astridr Selr Leifsdóttir

Photo
Winter Weekend 2007 working on Viking loom
Information
Preferred title: Not specified Their Pronouns: Not specified Resides: Heatherwyne Status: Active Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Azure, a melusine with hands clasped at her breast argent, crined and tailed, and in chief three estoiles of eight rays Or
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Mistress Astridhr Selr Leifsdóttir, OL, OP is an accomplished fiber artist who creates wonderous things in a range of art forms including spinning, weaving, dyeing, embroidery, and even raising silk worms. Along with being a teacher and researcher, she has been an avid supporter of the Bardic Arts for many years, and was recognized with a Harp Argent on 06/04/1994 by TRM Cristian and Crystal for her efforts. She is married to Master Eiríkr Mjoksiglandi Sigurðarson.

She was elevated to the Order of the Pelican on 11/14/1999 by TRM Francesc and Seanach, and to the Order of the Laurel by TRM Brand and Nuala on 07/24/2004 for Spinning. Notable in her Laurel ceremony was her presentation of a basket of silk worms as tools of her craft. Their Majesties kindly returned the basket into Mistress Astridr's keeping.

Persona

Note: Her preferred spelling of her given name is "Astridhr"

Classes Taught

• Spinning With Luxury Fibers, Collegium Caidis 2009
• Textile Book Of Hours: Being A Series Of Images Of Textile Creation In Some Form, Collegium Caidis 2009
• Silk Reeling, Collegium Caidis 2011

Photos

At her Laureling ceremony	Weaving	Cardweaving at GWW XV
Teaching spinning		Laurel elevation	With the Laurel Cope
Spinning	With a proto-project	With Master Eiríkr Mjoksiglandi Sigurðarson	Indigo blue hands