Activities through 1-27-19

Recovery from two big events takes a few days! We’re gearing up for our Feast, though, coming up with samples of foods and food prep is starting. We’ve several baking days and a couple of days of making candies and sweets coming up very soon.

The invites are taking longer than they should, since the

illumination needed to be re-done. We’re talking about just putting out the wording since it’s getting so close.

If you want to come to the feast, drop a note here, on the House Capuchin facebook group or on the Summits group tagged to MaryAnne Anja Bues Bartlett, or just reply to the invite when those are us.

An awesome ladle that Stella found for us.

So this week was all clean-up, food and some embroidery, plus the needle-hitching that Anja’s been trying to learn. This coming week, we may have a baking day, certainly we’ll be making condiments and maybe one of the candies, and there are always the constant projects. At least we’ll have the workshops on time this week!

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Amy says, “Thank you!”

Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Next Potluck – 3/17 (no Feb potluck) 4/21, 5/19
Winter Feast Date is 2/17

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here: https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and new one here: https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Early Week – Unpacking, cleaning, putting away, all got done. Stella stopped by on Monday and picked up some of the soups to try. She and Aleks are both going to be able to come to the feast, so we have our entertainment sorted out!

The fabric & thread (even weave linen and linen thread) is from last weekend ( a gift from Marian) and the wonderful ladle is something Stella found. That’s going to be great for the feast. Amy got her book!

On Tuesday evening some soup samples got dropped off for one of the Newport members to try, since neither of the guys could make it to the potluck. We got the other one on Thursday. Amy got a sample of the cassia on Friday…and I didn’t get any pictures….

Cookery – Pickle Broth is going to be required for foods for the feast, so that got done this week on Tuesday evening. We also found another sauce to try, ginger jance, plus Anja decided to take another whack at the cameline sauce that didn’t work last time.

Sewing – Anja kept going on the tissue cover blackwork, getting a long ways when she was feeling too sick to be up and around.

Progress

Cleaned

The back

Herb Bunch – Didn’t happen this week. Mostly what was going on was getting things watered again and discovering that the starts that were supposed to go to the seed swap were either frozen or moldy. 😦

Project Day – We were still digging out and putting away some of the feast serving things this morning! ….but they were things that had gotten “parked” elsewhere over the summer.

… We were supposed to have a home-schooler come for a “class” on making period balls, but things didn’t work out for this week…

We got some embroidery pictures after that (above). Loren had to go run errands and wasn’t back until later. Anja worked on balls while he was gone, getting this one done, hair-stuffed.

Stuffing with a year’s accumulation of combings.

Done! What’s left of the hair is about 1 inch in the bottom of the bottle!

Anja started to try to learn how to use string to cover a bottle using this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKbDGBQnKk She’s done a lot of macrame in the past so figured it might be easier that it looks. …It is, but the devil is in the details, as usual. The start was awful and the knotting process was pretty bad. It got better as she went, but it was a first try. Later in the afternoon pictures got done.

Miscellaneous pix

Natural Dyes colors

– “By the Emperor´s Hand: Military Dress and Court Regalia in the Later Roman-Byzantine Empire” de Timothy Dawson (2015). (Lots more on the new page!)

Courtier and palatial service staff of the 7th century AD The officer wears the dalmatic tunic (a variant of the old manicata tunic), the khlamus with the purple tablia, symbol of his rank, the hood felonion or maforian and the kampagia on the feet , which showed their status within the senatorial class. The service woman wears a simple outfit that endured all the changes of fashion in the Empire.

Zoste patrikia and courtesan of the imperial family of the tenth and eleventh centuries AD. The courtly title of zoste patrikia was a very high title within the Imperial Court, since she was the first lady of company and direct assistant of the Empress. In the illustration he wears a delmatikon tunic, he wears a maforion covering his ears and above it he wears a white propoloma cap adorned with gems. The zoste patrikia was the only woman outside the imperial family that could dress with a parrot (purple in this case) and that had as symbol of its rank a golden thorakion formed by chains in a blade. The imperial lady, on the other hand, wears a blue delmatikon with geometric ornaments and images of birds with golden backgrounds and has as a complement a belt with frets called zonarion. She wears a purple propoloma cap, which identifies her as a member of the imperial family.

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (905-959 AD) in an imperial ceremony of Triumph. Wear the triumphal crown or toufa and the pearl epilorikion to match your purple boots. The kaisar, on the other hand, carries the golden spear, while the protospatharios holds the helmet. The latter also dresses the golden klivanion armor as the kaisar, the spekion robe and the turban (fakeolion). The kaisar wears different colored boots, one is purple and the other is black. It symbolizes that it is between the people and the throne.

Empress of the 6th century AD half dressed. The empresses enjoyed a regalia similar to that of the emperor but with feminine details. In the suit (divetesion) of the illustration of the augousta some ornaments are observed such as the sementa (the circles on the shoulders) and the klavoi, it still does not wear the purple khlamus nor the imperial collar (sthethokarokalllon) and has in its hands the imperial diadem (stemma).

Courtier and official of the year 1050. The Courtier wears a white suit of the summer, a shirt (Esoforia) called kolovion but which forms a single piece along with the pants called esoforokolovion. The book of ceremonies tells us both the color and the functions of these courtiers. The Dark Officer is the rhaiktor (Rector-Rhaíktōri) who wears a black suit (Raiktorikion) to play with his cape. It was not usual to wear black, because in the th century the white and gold were dominated in the court, but the black was accepted and aesthetically defined (ta atravatikia, ” the black “, ” the black “). The Rhaiktor was A post created, possibly, in the th century but it was changing over time. Being a farm manager becomes a special dignity (axiai eidikai in the kletorologion of the year 899) and then to be a judicial position in the imperial house in the 899th century and XI. Your appointment ceremony is shown in of. Rhaiktor’s position could be occupied by a noble, cleric, priest and even a eunuch. We also know that your position could be combined with other high charges, such as stratopedarches or logothetes tou genikou. In the lists of precedence to the imperial banquets of the centuries ix al x occupied a very prominent place, right after the magistroi and before the synkellos and the patrikioi. The figure of the rhaiktor disappears from the records after the year 1055.

Mobilization in the th century. C.. a woman collaborates with the army, helps recruit, spy and even watches and maintains order in the city within the police body of la vigla. Theophanes tells us how women served as spies and Archbishop Eustathius of thessaloniki narrates as in the defense of his city there were women with turban (Fakeolion) and military clothing that threw stones and darts from the walls to the besiegers in the th century. The two men belong to the factions of the city (which ended up absorbing others). The man on our right is an auriga of the faction (Green). It has the winner of a race in the track; a silver helmet with golden envelopes and a luxurious belt. His green tunic was called aurgarion. The other is a member of the faction faction (Blue) and is being recruited while enjoying his free time drinking wine.

A Sebastokrator of the fourteenth century, of the imperial family, wears a roukhon that accompanies with a very elaborate tabarion (cloak). The cap is a skaranikon with the image of the emperor. His boots have the double-headed eagles of the Paleologos dynasty (such as tabarion). The other man is a protovestiarios, who wears a skiadion (with the aêr or covers nape) and kavadion very decorated with two-headed eagles and imperial monograms.

Music

Links

Mapping the World – https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/mapping-the-world

Herb Garden for a Roman cook – https://www.thespruceeats.com/herbs-for-a-roman-herb-garden-1762018

Tintagle, a Dark Age Beacon – https://www.archaeology.org/issues/323-1901/features/7195-a-dark-age-beacon. – https://www.archaeology.org/issues/323-1901/features/7195-a-dark-age-beacon

Les Feux de Guedelon, Season 2

Episode 1, Choosing a tree and shopping the forest – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5xfRoq9Wc
Episode 2, Felling the tree & the Green Man – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZu7Na0EK28
Episode 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbfcsBdpmQ

New Page

Byzantine Clothing Inspiration page – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-22E

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Stella, Jay, Amor, Amy

Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 1/18/18 & published 1/27/19 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 1/27/19

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