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Leeny Vee (Mary Ostler-Tir Righ)
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November 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Got a scroll for my tents/encampments, and I got started working on my Kalkan heraldic shield project.

#sca #MySca #TirRigh #AnTir
A scroll featuring a tent that incorporates details from my timurid disked bell. The scroll was for the Kingdom of An Tir's award for spiffy encampments. Its called the Righteous Rath. My kalkan shield project complete with the rattan reeds, a sample of winding techniques, and the 4/8 cotton warp spools in royal blue, black, white, and mustard yellow.
November 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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I am starting a new project that is adjacent to my reed screens. Kalkans.

A small domed shield made of spiral bound reeds/rods. There are a lot of them in museums, but not a lot about how to make them. Researching museum photos and starting trials on binds techniques.

#sca #mysca #TirRigh #AnTir
A simple yet ornamental spiral bound kalkan shield in red and gold. A sampler of possible binding techniques for rods. Using blue and white embroidery thread.
October 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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So even before the next tent project I am going to jump ahead and do a blue awning for my disked bells encampment. Found what I think is a blue rectangle with decorations, red ropes, and poles. I think mine will be Azure, semi of 8 pointed voided stats argent.

#mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #tents
At the very top of this image is a wonderful blue rectangular cloth with decoration functioning as an aframe awning/low open ended tent. An extreme close-up of the awning.
September 28, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Probably a tie
September 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Made a tablero board using leftover reeds and indigo dyed wool roving.

#mysca #TirRigh #AnTir #indigo #reedscreen
A tablero board made of reeds and indigo dyed wool roving.
September 4, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Oldest printed book I have is a 1944 published book, La Tente Noire. I have many modern reprints of far older titles, mostly on Japanese armoring manuals and portable architecture.... but the oldest printed is 1944.
1944 copy of La Tente Noire.
August 18, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Finished my felted hat. Will eventually replace the band, but it will do for now. The next hat I make will require a proper hat block, as the pot i used ended up a tad too big.

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Felted wool hat number 2
August 17, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Next possible tent could be based on this lovely example. Except no horses, and a yurt ring with poles I stead of a market umbrella.

#MySCA #TirRigh #AnTir #tents
This horse mounted tent in red and blue is adorable, and might be my next tent. Instead of a center pole design, the next tent will have a yurt ring, and vertical poles, much like in this illustration of a mongolian chegezi ger. I have enough red and yellow canvas from previous tents / fabric stash to make a small tent.
June 22, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Second steaming, stretching, and forming of a white felt hat. A slight trimming on the outside of the brim just to make it easier to work with.
June 16, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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White felt steamed, stretched, and pinned over a cooking pot. Making a new felt hat.
June 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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My warp threads really bled into my wool felt. Making a new hat

#MySca #TirRigh #AnTir #felt
June 15, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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The pole was painted black, and it looks great next to the brass candle holder
June 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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My 8ft red timurid empire tent pole while pretty wasn't up to snuff, so I decided to make a new pole.

3" sewer pipe and pillar style candle holders are what I'm using. Same technique I used for my 6ft tall white tomurid empire tent.

Go girthy or go home.

#mysca #AnTir #TirRigh #tents
My old blue tent pole, next to the new tent pole, next to the old black tent pole. The three pole tops and bottom.
June 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I may have a migraine that's trying to end me, but I can still sit on the couch with a cold cloth across my head and still felt some wool with my feet.

The original use of a reed screen.

#antir #tirrigh #mysca
May 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Took the new sunshade to the Barony of Lionsgate Champions Tourney. It worked out pretty nicely. I only have a few tie straps left to sew onto it.

I have no idea what I'm going to do with it, as it doesn't fit with my more Timurid persona. We'll under a hundred all in.

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My new sunshade erected Eric side at a local tourney. The angle of the photo makes it look lopsided, but it is fine. Side view of the sunshade showing a better view of the framework.
May 25, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Give my regards to Rex Warneford VC.

Favorite slab in my favorite cemetery in London.
Rex warnefords head stone in Brompton cemetery includes a carved image of his face and a relief carving of him shooting down a zeppelin in a biplane.
May 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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So I just soaked the sunshade tarp in silicon dissolved in naptha.
Should dry clear and make the tarp full on waterproof.

If you try making your own silipoly tarp. Buy dishwasher gloves. Do not rely on latex gloves. My latex gloves broke, and I now have webbed fingers.

#mysca #antir #tirrigh
The sunshade tarp is hung over its frame to dry after a 5:1 solution of naptha fuel and silicon had been applied.
May 22, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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I think I am going to leave it as a sun shade.

Also trying to make it so I can assemble it with ground spikes for when we have events indoors.

#mysca #antir #tirrigh #sca
Making a frame for the sunshade.
May 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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The long delayed one the cheap shelter project is back on.

#AnTir #TirRigh #sca #mysca
Thrift challenge tent is back on. Painting the blue details onto the banquet table cloths.
May 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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Thank goodness this particular folly is essentially done. The reed screens last weft reed was placed at Salon Artificum, thus ending 4 solid months of putzing around. An edge binding and some card woven straps are left. 14ft long... oof. Taking a week off.

#TirRigh #mysca #AnTir #reedscreen
My display showing the reed screen in progress. I am explaining how I realized I had my warp thread too far apart after I had it half way done, when I complied an average of warps / width of 26 museum screens. Photo courtesy of my Laurel Mister Agnes Schere. The final screen unfurled. 14ft long. Which I'd will cover about half of the walls of a 10ft diameter yurt. Photo courtesy of my Laurel, Mistress Agnes Schere.
April 28, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Last minute tweaking for my display at Salon Artificum next weekend.

It's crunch time to finish any write ups, and cover the modern.

5x8 feet is not a lot of space. Lol

#sca #mysca #AnTir #TirRigh
#reedscreen
Last minute tweaking for my reed screen display. Decided to not go with the typical banquet table display, and focus more on an insitue format.
April 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I did the math. My reed screen is longer than a museum screen with the same reed count

Museum piece is ~1100 reeds / 284cm (9'4")
My screen is ~1100 reeds / 378cm (12'4")

So my reeds must be larger, or the screen artisans are choosing narrower reed size.
#MySCA #tirrigh #antir #reedscreen
My red and blue reed screen. 12'4" Museum reed screen 9'4" A small section of the reed screen so enable counting number of reeds. 50 reeds total.
April 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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April 19, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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My mason bees are being productive citizens of my yard.

#masonbees
April 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM