Indian Quickie
How about that? I'm actually doing Laurelish things!
The SCA India list started with Ivory, but with my ferret like distractability, I ended up in footwear (ivory footwear, mind you), and found this site that's just killing me with how cool it is:
http://www.allaboutshoes.ca/en/paduka/the_paduka/index_2.php
(sitting in my rocking chair, pretending to be crotchedy) - Back in my day...
Seriously. When I started doing an Indian persona:
Even more awesome - there's a 200 BC shoe on this page that shows (thank you to Tevi for pointing it out) the holes that suggest this was likely a flip-flop style shoe - something I was never really sure existed. Even more awesome - with the detail here, someone could absolutely recreate this shoe and enter it an A&S contest. (Hint-hint. Hint-Hint-Hint).
If you happen to be interested in wood working and want a sponsor for these materials (I'd even be willing to talk cost of tools for the carving) - in return for me owning the shoes when you are done... let me know. I am a Laurel with more money than time right now, and these shoes just KILL me, they are so cool.
I REALLY wish I could tell you (who is you? the mythical minion that lives in my head and does what I tell it to) to go off and make me the rosewater pumping toe-peg shoes that are even cooler, but there is no date attached, and the effort hardly seems fair if we can't document it... But man, oh man... who doesn't want rosewater pumping shoes??? For years, I figured when I was crazy old lady I would get goldfish shoes But now I know that my real mission in life is to find and document rosewater pumping shoes, although new_man will kill me, cause he hates rosewater, so I will eventually have to replace the rosewater with something else - like fresh baked cookie dough scent or something.
The SCA India list started with Ivory, but with my ferret like distractability, I ended up in footwear (ivory footwear, mind you), and found this site that's just killing me with how cool it is:
http://www.allaboutshoes.ca/en/paduka/the_paduka/index_2.php
(sitting in my rocking chair, pretending to be crotchedy) - Back in my day...
Seriously. When I started doing an Indian persona:
- I knew NO ONE doing it (a year later I met Vairavi, and joined the SCA India list)
- I could find almost nothing on the Internet
- The only books out there for this were either all-Asia art anthologies, or (if you were lucky) all-India or all-Hindu art anthologies. Era by era? Are you kidding me?
- There was a time when I owned all the books I could find on the Internet on my chosen era
- There was a time when the 10 heavy duty Indian researchers in the SCA could barely cover the subcontinent, with each having their own location & time, not overlapping in anyway and with each person taking 2-3 centuries each. And we left huge, huge gaps.
Even more awesome - there's a 200 BC shoe on this page that shows (thank you to Tevi for pointing it out) the holes that suggest this was likely a flip-flop style shoe - something I was never really sure existed. Even more awesome - with the detail here, someone could absolutely recreate this shoe and enter it an A&S contest. (Hint-hint. Hint-Hint-Hint).
If you happen to be interested in wood working and want a sponsor for these materials (I'd even be willing to talk cost of tools for the carving) - in return for me owning the shoes when you are done... let me know. I am a Laurel with more money than time right now, and these shoes just KILL me, they are so cool.
I REALLY wish I could tell you (who is you? the mythical minion that lives in my head and does what I tell it to) to go off and make me the rosewater pumping toe-peg shoes that are even cooler, but there is no date attached, and the effort hardly seems fair if we can't document it... But man, oh man... who doesn't want rosewater pumping shoes??? For years, I figured when I was crazy old lady I would get goldfish shoes But now I know that my real mission in life is to find and document rosewater pumping shoes, although new_man will kill me, cause he hates rosewater, so I will eventually have to replace the rosewater with something else - like fresh baked cookie dough scent or something.