Apel von Mülln

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Apel von Mülln

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Preferred title:	Meisterin, Master
Their Pronouns:	She/Her
Resides:	Dreiburgen
Status:	Active
Awards:	Visit the Caid Order of Precedence

Heraldry

Sable, three ermine spots one and two Or and a point pointed Argent

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Meisterin Apel von Mülln, formerly Apel von Falkenau, joined the SCA in 2016, beginning as a newcomer in Gyldenholt. She now resides in Dreiburgen. Her artistic focus is 14th through 16th century German costuming but she is also interested in Early and Late Period clothing and reconstruction, period cooking, brewing, scribal, and more. She was elevated to the Order of the Laurel by Wilhelm IV and Lorissa on 1/6/2024.

Social media is @handmadehistory .

Persona

Associations

Former apprentice to Mistress Adelheit Schwarzenkatze

Founding member of Das Freie Fähnlein

Heraldry

She may be recognized by her registered arms: Sable, three ermine spots one and two Or and a point pointed argent.

Additional registered heraldry:

Badge: (Fieldless) A fish haurient argent maintaining in its mouth an annulet Or.
Badge: (Fieldless) Within and conjoined to a closed fetterlock argent a pomegranate slipped and leaved Or seeded gules.

Offices, Positions, & Service

Offices

Royal Court Service

Lady-in-Waiting to Their Royal Majesties Athanaric II and Sigriðr II, King and Queen of Caid (2018)

Lady-in-Waiting to Their Royal Majesties Wilhelm II and Tsyra, King and Queen of Caid (2018)

Lady-in-Waiting and Assistant Royal Clothier to Their Royal Majesties Agrippa III and Dawid, King and King Consort of Caid (2018)

Lady-in-Waiting and Assistant Royal Clothier to Their Royal Majesties Adam and Stæina, King and Queen of Caid (2019)

Baronial Service

Lady-in-Waiting to Their Excellencies Ramvoldus and Kungund, Baron and Baroness of Dreiburgen (2021-present)
Event Steward for Dreiburgen Summer Arts 2022.

Other Service

See "Clothing for Others" Below

While home life often does not allow her to volunteer in person as much as she would like, she tries to make up for it by creating and donating as much largess to the Kingdom and her home Barony as she can (i.e. spice mixes, homemade soaps, liquors and syrups, beeswax candles, handmade Slavic temple rings, wire coil hairpins, hand-harvested flower seeds, ragdolls, dehydrated sourdough starter, armor bag deodorizers, finger-loop braid and whipcord, etc.)

Was commissioned by Mistress Caterucia Bice da Ghiacceto to sew a blue velvet and silver trimmed rapier cloak for the Defender of the Arts rapier champion for the 2018 Crescent Artisan competition. This cloak was presented to Their Majesties Pansa and Katherine at their coronation in 2021 to be used as regalia for future Defender of the Arts title holders.

Prepared several period desserts for The Right Noble Upper Crust Guild luncheon fundraiser at Gyldenholt Anniversary, 2019. The object of the fundraiser was to raise enough to bring Hanna Tunberg, co-author of "An Early Meal- A Viking Age Cookbook and Culinary Odyssey," to be the guest speaker at the 2020 West Coast Culinary Symposium.

Volunteered at the 2019 Irvine Girl Scout Day Camp "Rocking the Renaissance" event, where she taught Viking whipcord braiding.

Event Staff

Event Steward for Dreiburgen Summer Arts 2022.

Competitions

Crescent Artisan 2018: Period Pretzels (Golden Journeyman).
Dreiburgen Summer Arts 2021: 16th-century German Hemd with Pleatwork Embroidery, The Lengberg Castle "Bra," and 16th-century Slashed Swiss Gollar.
Festival of the Rose Winter 2022 Syrup Contest: Lavender Syrup (Judge's Choice Second Place).
Pentathlon 2022: Mary of Hungary gown (First Place Artisan, Costume Construction), "Sigillum Dei" wax seal (Second Place Journeyman, Surface Decoration: Other), nocino (Second Place Journeyman, Culinary: Brewing Varietals), scented washing balls (First Place Apprentice), "How to Make Scented Washing Balls" (First Place Apprentice, Composition: How-to Paper).

Classes Taught

"14th Century Self-stuffing Buttons," Great Western War XXI 2018
"Intro to Fretwork Veils," Great Western War XXI 2019
"Trossfrauen: Who They Were and What They Wore," Great Western War 2022
"Intro to Smocking and Pleatwork Embroidery," Great Western War 2022, Collegium Caidis 2023.

Projects & Publications

Clothing for Me

Recreation of a drawing of 16th century Venetian woman. Includes bodice stiffened with paste buckgram; linen camicia; tie-on sleeves; silk organza partlet; silk gauze veil; and filigree belt.
Recreation of extant 16th century gown of Mary of Hungary. Includes all layers of original and is entirely handsewn. Silk damask and "cloth of gold" brocade, lined with linen and wool.
Woolen Trossfrau dress and accessories.
14th century linen cotehardie, German frilled veil (Kruseler), and embroidered St. Brigitta's cap, all hand-sewn with linen thread.
Early 16th century German gown based on Bernhard Strigel's "Portrait of a Woman."
16th century linen Trossfrau, slashed wool hat, veil (Schleir), wool Gollar, and smocked apron, all hand-sewn with linen thread. Pictured here with Ludwig Hebenstreitz von Augsburg; photo by Wyatt D. Odd.
14th century woolen surcote.
14th century woolen hood and linen surcote.
Slashed wool and silk Swiss-style gollar based on a 1517 Urs Graf woodcut.
16th century pleatwork embroidered linen hemd.
"Bra" dress based on the finds at Lengberg Castle.
16th century German Dockenbaret and linen Wulsthaube.
15th century German "squid" hat.
16th century lettice cap based on Hans Holbein the Youngers, “Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling”.
14th century false braids made of raw linen and linen tape.

Clothing for Others

Assorted hand-finishing on 14th century linen garb for TRMs Agrippa III and Dawid's progress to Pennsic.
Assorted hand-finishing on 14th century linen garb for TRMs Agrippa III and Dawid's progress to Pennsic.
Hand-sewn Viking Period woolen underdress for HRM Stæina Hálfdanardóttir.
Hand-sewn 14th century honeycomb veil for HRM Stæina Hálfdanardóttir's stepping down garb.
Hand-sewn 14th century honeycomb veil for HRM Stæina Hálfdanardóttir's stepping down garb.
Defender of the Arts regalia cloak.
Hand-sewn 14th century honeycomb veil for the Baroness of Dreiburgen Kungund Benehonig.
Hand-sewn underdress for HRM Lorissa du Griffin's stepping up garb.

Period Cooking and Brewing

Crescent Artisan 2018- "Period Pretzels"
Crescent Artisan 2018- "Period Pretzels"
Elderflower mead.
Nocino and syrup made from green English walnuts.
Finished walnut syrup.
Finished nocino, vin de noix, and Nussschnaps.
Duke's powder, clarée spices, fine spice mix, and powder fort for largesse.
Gingerbread "boar's head" for Dreiburgen Yule 2021.

Miscellany

Painted silk replica of 15th-16th century Holy Roman Empire battle flag.
Painted silk replica of 15th-16th century battle flag battle flag.
Painted silk standard for Erenric of Devon.
Wood and rawhide lantern.
Handmade Castile Soap for largesse.
Slavic temple rings, gifted to HRM Queen Drada de Variis.
Roman and Greek fibulae and spiral clasps, gifted to HRM King Valrik Maclan.
Finnish Iron Age wire coiled decoration, gifted to HRM Queen Lorissa du Griffin.
Finnish Iron Age spiral chain/festoon hangers, gifted to HRM Queen Lorissa du Griffin.
Scented washing balls.
16th century "Sigillum Dei" wax seal, engraved beeswax.
Ragdolls based on finds from Karanis, Eqypt (1st-4th centuries CE Roman Empire).
Recreations inspired by the Hallstatt diadem and spectacle pendant (ca. 1100 BCE).
Finger loop braid and whipcord in baronial colors for award cords.

Photos

Costume College 2023 with Sibylla de Haze.
After teaching at Costume College 2022 with Adelheit Schwarzenkatze and Sibylla de Haze.
At Festival of the Rose Winter 2022.
With Whilja de Gothia at Winter Coronation 2020.
Landsknecht March, Great Western War XXI, 2018.
Great Western War XXI, 2018.
Das Freie Fähnlein Tailor Shop, Caidan Artisan Village, Potrero War 2018.
"Good news from Estrella..." aka "Estrella War XXXV: Awaken the Kraken," Estrella War, 2019.
Apprentice ceremony.