Agnes Wurtman
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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
- Largesse Coordinator, court of Baroness Tyna Blackrune of Dreiburgen
- Bard of Dreiburgen, as of Yule 2016
Past:
- A&S, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
- Chiurgeon, Canton of Tanwayour, Barony of Calafia
- Lady-in-Waiting, Patrick II and Kara II, 06/02/2012-11/03/2012
Event Staff
Deputy hay bales autocrat, Potrero War 2012.
Classes Taught
- Wire Weaving: all levels
- Metalwork: reproducing a Greek geometric period fibula
- Card Weaving: beginner
- Mead Making: introduction to mead, fourteenth century French mead, sima (a post-period Finnish short mead), tej (a period Ethiopian mead)
- Soda Making: various yeast sodas (root beer, ginger beer, ginger ale, jamaica, etc.)
- Cooking: mead mustard, dill pickles, mozzarella cheese, sourdough bread (in a camp oven), focaccia (in a camp oven), funnel cakes
- Embroidery: Viking ösenstich, double running stitch
- Sprang: beginning and intermediate
- Scholarly: historical method, introduction to lyrical translation, translating Chaucer to modern English
For additional cooking classes see below.
Projects & Publications
Constructed wire woven instructor tokens for Potrero War, 2014 & 2015.
Braided event tokens for College of St. Artemas, 2015.
Constructed braided, beaded, and wire woven event tokens for Canton of Tanwayour (multiple years 2011 - 2016).
Provided 7 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, July 2016.
Provided 2 digitally restored historic images for Crown Prints, January 2017.
Wrote article on dry cured meats for the Dreiburgen newsletter, March 2017.
Initiating a webinar format as a supplement to Canton of Gallavally A&S classes. First webinar was held July 18, 2016 on the Skype platform; topic was dill pickles. Content included a class handout with references in .txt format, two recipes in .txt format, two video demonstrations, and interactive coaching. Class attendees included a visitor from Drachenwald.
Gallavally A&S webinar topics:
July 2016: dill pickles
August 2016: mead mustard
September 2016: lemon cheese
October 2016: [dark]
November 2016: tej
December 2016: butter
January 2017: yogurt
February 2017: dry cured meats
Memories
Photos
Celtic knotwork as laidwork embroidery using four stranded braid, for an Irish Viking. A creative anachronism.
A reproduction double spiral fibula (Greek, seventh century BC) replica in brass after a bronze original in the Louvre Museum.
A Canton of Tanwayour display at the Rancho San Diego library, 2014.
A&S display at KingdomCon 2015.
A sprang bag during construction.
Sprang bag completed.
Card weaving the ram's horn.
Mead mustards in process. Demonstration of soaking properties for different mustard seeds.
A wire woven bracelet in 3 and 2 double stitch with wire wrapped ends.
A very inaccurate Viking helmet in crochet.
Low water gardening for herbalist pursuits: a capillary wick system to raise basil and mint.
