[Moo] Japanese Garb A&S competition

[Denise V McMahon]

FYI!

Here is an early alert to garb-makers in the Kingdom of Atlantia and 
other nearby kingdoms:

 From the Barony of Bright Hills, this is the event announcement:
http://www.brighthills.net/events/TNT2005.htm

The East meets West Gorgeous Garb Contest

If you have a dream of making a gorgeous set of garb to enter in an A&S 
competition, now is your chance--jewels, lace, silk, brocades, 
embroidered woolens, damask, feathered hats, modest veils--anything you 
can document for the 14th to the 16th centuries!  This competition will 
award two prizes--one to the maker of the most fabulous period-based 
set of garb as would be worn by a European personage meeting a Japanese 
court personage; the other to the maker of the most fabulous 
period-based set of garb as would be worn by a Japanese personage 
meeting a European visitor to the Japanese court.  Front and back 
photos of someone wearing the  garb encouraged. Documentation 
required.  All garb to be worn during evening court for the edification 
and adornment of "Treachery on the Tokaido" [a.k.a. T&T], an event to 
be held Saturday, October 29, 2005, in the firehall of Hampstead, 
Maryland, in the Barony of Bright Hills. 

This competition is being sponsored by Ingeborg i Trondheim of Bright 
Hills.  Email: ingeborg_sca at yahoo.com.

Silk & More

Another fine contest at T&T!  Whether you are a beginner at period 
crafts or an expert, this contest is for you.  Any item that is all 
silk or partially made from silk may be entered:  i.e., silk floss 
embroideries; a carved wooden box lined with silk, Japanese silk cords, 
clothing or accessories, toys, anything in any SCA period is acceptable 
as long as some part of it uses silk.  Documentation appreciated but 
not required. This competition is also being sponsored by Ingeborg i 
Trondheim of Bright Hills.  Email:  ingeborg_sca at yahoo.com.

-Rowan Berran
Baroness, Cook, Seamstress, Silent Auction Maven, etc.


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