Rekon of Saaremaa

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Rekon of Saaremaa
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Preferred title: Not specified
Their Pronouns: Not specified
Resides: Dreiburgen
Status: Active
Awards: Visit the Caid Order of Precedence
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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.

Her husband is Paganus Grimlove, and her daughter is Anekāstrasya Bai.

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

Festival of the Rose, Winter 2016

  • People's Choice winner

Caidan Arts and Sciences and Pentathlon 2015

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

Flame Artisan Arts and Sciences Champion 2013-2014

Lyondemere Arts and Sciences Champion 2013-2014

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

  • Layout of the Gyldenholt Palio token mold, with period inspiration pictures

    Layout of the Gyldenholt Palio token mold, with period inspiration pictures

  • 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

  • Closeup of the dot-and-circle tool with the shapes it made

    Closeup of the dot-and-circle tool with the shapes it made

  • Palio mold tested with Silly Putty before adding pour spout

    Palio mold tested with Silly Putty before adding pour spout

  • Pile of Palio tokens before adding backings

    Pile of Palio tokens before adding backings

  • Tokens backed with hand-painted (in period pigments) paper backings

    Tokens backed with hand-painted (in period pigments) paper backings

  • Diapered repoussee backings in brass for the Royals and the seated Barons of Gyldenholt

    Diapered repoussee backings in brass for the Royals and the seated Barons of Gyldenholt

  • Pewter Viking-style lunulae with 'granulated' decoration

    Pewter Viking-style lunulae with 'granulated' decoration

  • 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.

  • Site token for a Lyondemere event (Arts and Archery, if I remember correctly): Merlion on the Half-Shell

    Site token for a Lyondemere event (Arts and Archery, if I remember correctly): Merlion on the Half-Shell

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

    Rings with text: Honor Servys, and foliate decoration.

  • Largesse for Pennsic: heraldic boxes filled with pewter rings, all painted by hand

    Largesse for Pennsic: heraldic boxes filled with pewter rings, all painted by hand

  • 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)

  • A variety of pewter rings, some enamel-painted

    A variety of pewter rings, some enamel-painted

  • Winter Coronation 2016 site token in process

    Winter Coronation 2016 site token in process

  • Test cast using a wooden back to the mold

    Test cast using a wooden back to the mold

  • Finished tokens

    Finished tokens

  • 12th Night feast token based on the Visby lenses, showing how to set the lens

    12th Night feast token based on the Visby lenses, showing how to set the lens

  • Finished feast tokens

    Finished feast tokens

  • Queen's Champion Winter 2016 site token in progress on photo of period example

    Queen's Champion Winter 2016 site token in progress on photo of period example

  • Finished tokens with runic hammers which say 'HMAR IS' (This is a hammer)

    Finished tokens with runic hammers which say 'HMAR IS' (This is a hammer)

  • Hood bearing some of my casting, and the vegetable 'ivory' walnut diptych I carved (I also fabricated the hinge for it)

    Hood bearing some of my casting, and the vegetable 'ivory' walnut diptych I carved (I also fabricated the hinge for it)

  • 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.

  • 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

  • Lapis Royal seals and blackstone personal seals presented to Edric and Faizeh

    Lapis Royal seals and blackstone personal seals presented to Edric and Faizeh

  • 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

  • Assorted intaglio

    Assorted intaglio

  • 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)

  • Hematite intaglio of Queen Kara's cats and hearts

    Hematite intaglio of Queen Kara's cats and hearts

  • 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.

  • Period variety of chicken (Silkie, documented in Marco Polo's travels) at demo

    Period variety of chicken (Silkie, documented in Marco Polo's travels) at demo

  • 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

  • Close-up of wooden block printing (I carved the block and printed the cloth)

    Close-up of wooden block printing (I carved the block and printed the cloth)

  • 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.

  • Knife forged from a nail

    Knife forged from a nail

  • My own armor for unarmored, made at Roger Wells' workshop with his help

    My own armor for unarmored, made at Roger Wells' workshop with his help

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