Student Token

Broach made for my student Aibhilin

Modern Necklace

Silver Crescent Necklace

Like the necklace I made for Ysmay upon stepping down as Bhakail's A&S champion, this chain is based on a Roman chain, the design for which I learned at Pennsic during a class. A link to a museum photo of a Roman wire wrapped chain can be found here. 

Pictures of two projects

Tokens made for high table at this year's River Wars. There were a total of 12.

Pennsic (fencing field) dirt beads. Transparent dark green glass with opaque green frit rolled in Pennsic dirt.

Gifts for their Excellencies Bhakail

On stepping down as baronial A&S champion I presented their Excellencies Bhakail with a few gifts as a token of my appreciation for being chosen their champion.

Above are 4 "Islamic" folded glass beads (in Bhakail colors) which I added to fibula I wire wrapped and sharpened myself. I like the folded bead design for these tokens, because I feel it looks like a flame, an item which is related to Bhakail's heraldry.

Above is a necklace I make for her Excellency. The chain is based on a Roman chain, the design for which I learned at Pennsic during a class (sadly can't find at the name of the instructor at the moment). Erica helped teach me how to do the actual wire wrapping. A link to a museum photo of a Roman wire wrapped chain can be found here. The glass beads were made by me, the small gold beads were store bought. The necklace is in Bhakail colors, with a Salamander focal bead.

Wine Charms

Wine glass and bottle charms made for the populace choice prize at Bhakail Yule. Red and Black are Bhakail colors. I think THIS was the video I used from YouTube to teach me how to make the charm itself. I totally bought the bottle of wine to match the tokens and Bhakail's colors.

Fibula (Broach)

These fibulas were based off of ones Grimbold made that I saw at Artisan's Village. After he
explained his process for me, and, after I watched a few you tube videos, I made replica's of his fibulas. After that, I started looking for documentation.

The links below are from the British Museum and Peabody Museum. Thank you to the lovely people who keep pinterest pages that I can steal from!!

Note: The British Museum has a LOT of fibula images in its collection. Below I've only linked a very few.

Fibula with bead attached by a wire ring:
http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/9/title-desc?t:state:flow=fad146ff-c292-45ec-af86-4069c07ce072
This images is sort of documenting the wire ring beads that I've used for tokens. I attach a little safety pin to those for people to pin to their clothing. The fibula, from what i've been seeing, is basically the ancestor of the safety pin, so...:)

Wire fibula with beads:
http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/11/title-desc?t:state:flow=fad146ff-c292-45ec-af86-4069c07ce072

http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/27/title-desc?t:state:flow=fad146ff-c292-45ec-af86-4069c07ce072

http://pmem.unix.fas.harvard.edu:8080/peabody/view/objects/asitem/search$0040/16/title-desc?t:state:flow=fad146ff-c292-45ec-af86-4069c07ce072

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=682675&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=2

Simple Fibulas, no beads:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3295443&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3295437&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3295495&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=1

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=457675&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=3

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=457677&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=3

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=440485&partId=1&searchText=fibula&images=true&page=3