Welcome to the Website of the Embellishers' Guild of An Tir
**** Enter our Contest at 12th Night, 2011 and show off your skills in Embellishment! ****
Have you etched your drinking horn or cup with a design?
Have you doodled graffiti on your sword?
Have you embroidered hangings in your pavilion?
Painted storage boxes? Stained some glass?
Tooled a leather pouch?
Decorated anything period in an appropriate manner and style?
Then this contest is for you!
The Embellishers' Guild is sponsoring a contest: 'A Thing and Its Embellishment'.
Please enter something you've embellished and spread the word about the contest!
Embellish any period appropriate item you'd like, made by yourself or someone else, and show it off at 12th Night. For more details visit the contests and projects webpage, or download a handy flier. The contest will be held on Saturday from 10a (item drop off) to 4p (item pick up). So come and show off your work, let us see what you can do!
Introduction
Embellishment can also be done with paints on wood or leather, with stamps and engraving tools on wood, leather and metal, with threads and other items on textiles, and on many other materialsin many other media. In fact, embellishment is making just about anything more attractive by decorating it. Of course, we are focussed upon the ways items were embellished during the accepted SCA period of study, from c. AD 600 to c. AD 1650.
German Embroidery on a small Bag (by Aelianora de Wintringham)
Handmade Buttons: Needleweaving on a Wooden Core (by Aelianora de Wintringham)
Turkish Rose Pouch by Farida al Hadi'ata
See more samples on the Guild Sample Box page.
Membership:
Anyone who plays in the SCA in An Tir is welcome to join the Guild. Guild membership entails filling out and submitting an application (available here) and Guild meetings are open to anyone; member or not. As the Guild sorts itself out, a membership fee could be instituted. Right now, membership is free. Members are able to receive the guild newsletter in the mail, or delivered online in pdf form to their email inbox. Members can also participate in guild challenges, and rise through the guild ranks to become a Master.
Our Next Meeting: Noon to 1 pm, Saturday, 12th Night, 2011
Our next Kingdom meeting, challenges and display will be at 12th Night, 2011, on Saturday at noon to 1 pm in the A&S area. There will be a lot happening at this event with the Guild. We will be presenting our Guild sample box and our final petition for full Guild status. We will also be sponsoring the 'A Thing and Its Embellishment' Contest (detailed above)Meetings and Challenges:
Low level (Junior and Senior Student) Challenges will be held in the Rivers region at Hauksgaard's Feast of St Brigid Feb 19th. For those unfamiliar with Hauksgaard, it is a canton of Three Mountains, located in the Columbia River Gorge around Hood River and The Dalles. If anyone here is interested in challenging or evaluating, please contact Mistress Arlys.
Guild meetings are generally held at every Crown event. Regional meetings might also be called as necessary. Guild challenges take place at the Crown events and at various local events, as needed. Please see the Guidelines, Ranks and Challenges page for more on challenges. Also, if you want to challenge please contact the Guild Challenge Deputy, HL Gwendolyn of Castle Court and she will set up the challenge at a Kingdom event, or put you in contact with a regional challenge deputy if you want to challenge at a local event. There is also a listing of local Challenge deputies on the Officers and Members Page.
Guild News:
At Kingdom A&S, 2010, the Guild petitioned the Crown to advance to full Guild status. This is something that has seldom, if ever, been done before, and we caught the Crown a bit off guard. They listened to our petition and asked us to create something special to show what the Guild is about.
Therefore, the Guild Minister is asking all Guild members to consider making a small sample, perhaps 1 by 3 inches or so, of their favorite embellishment technique. This sample will be put into the Guild sample box, and be on show at different events.
New Guild Officers:
We have a new Regional Deputy!
Mistress Arlys o Gordon has agreed to be a Regional Deputy for the Rivers region. If you live in that area and wish to challenge a rank in the guild or join the guild, please contact her. Her contact information, along with that of the other Regional Deputies and the Guild Challenge Deputy is on the members page.
Our Last Display:
Our Last Display, which occured at 12th Night, went very well. Here's a few pictures! Click on an image to make it larger, then use your back button.
12th Night Display, 2010.
More of the Embellisher's Guild Display, needlework, cardweaving and more.
One of the items on display at 12th Night, 2010, made by HL Kassandra of Dragon's Laire.