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So I posted about the Viking-era swastika bead a few days ago. albreda said she'd wear it if I made it, so I turned on my torch tonight and gave it a shot.*

Original:
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My personal challenge as part of the A&S 50 project has been to identify and recreate 50 different period glass bead designs. So far, I'm more than halfway there, but this is the first documentation I've posted online.


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Baker's Mark Stamp

English, 16th century.

Lady Elinor Strangewayes, OM.

Categories: 25. Heraldic Display; 22. Sculpture and Carving.


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An egg tart.

Take eight eggs, beat them well and take one quart of milk. Let it seethe [2] in a pan and put the eggs into it and stir it around until it becomes thick, and let it become cool, so that the water comes out. Put in it sugar and a little butter. If you would like, you can also put into it ground almonds and rose water. And let it ( Read more... )

            17. Melon bead. See #3.

18. Blue segmented bead. See #5.

Bottom strand:

1. Blue and yellow swirly bead - this is a period-plausible simple spacer bead of my own design.


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As I gear up for Northern Lights, I'm thinking about A&S projects. More specifically, I'm thinking about what's been done, what hasn't been done, and what's made people ooh and aah. I'm thinking about projects like the iron smelting furnace(s) made at Pennsic, the big bread ovens, the full-scale stained glass windows, the hand-stitched tapestries ( Read more... )

I'm building a small clay bake oven as a project for Northern Lights. There are a couple different ways to do it; the one I'm going with is going to be portable (for obvious reasons). Gode Cookery has several good primary images of this sort of thing. This is the one with the best detail.

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