Good day at the torch
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norsegirlDidn't accomplish much of anything else, but had a really nice, relaxing day at the torch.
Started on a set of blue, yellow and white beads for myself (those were the colours I taught my sister on, and I found them quite striking)
The actual colour is somewhere between these two extremes. The yellow isn't quite that bright and the blue is blue, not black, but not quite "electric blue" either.
Only had one heartbreaker. The first bead I worked on was a stacked dot bead that I managed to get 6 stacks. Broke while cooling. Going to glue it back together once I buy new crazy glue.
Also experimented with totally non-period SCA heraldry beads. Decided to experiment with my old kingdom, Ealdormere's trillium. Not overly impressed with how it turned out, still much to learn, but not likely to do so as I have absolutely no use for such blatantly out of period beads. NEVER going to experiment with my current kingdom or principality's arms as I think I can do neither a lion nor a griffin on a bead and I'm not going to try.
The first bead is actually a flatish medallion-like thing, with the trillium on one side only. The trillium is mostly raised, with only the green leaves melted in. The "flatish" is because it was flat when I decorated it, but afterwards I was trying to even it out and thus made it kinda strange on the back-side. The second bead is your standard round bead with a trillium on each side (2), with the leaves entirely melted in and the "seed" in the centre left raised.
Like I said, with my wanting to stick to period beads for my own use I have no use for these myself. If anyone out there wants them, speak up!
Started on a set of blue, yellow and white beads for myself (those were the colours I taught my sister on, and I found them quite striking)
The actual colour is somewhere between these two extremes. The yellow isn't quite that bright and the blue is blue, not black, but not quite "electric blue" either.
Only had one heartbreaker. The first bead I worked on was a stacked dot bead that I managed to get 6 stacks. Broke while cooling. Going to glue it back together once I buy new crazy glue.
Also experimented with totally non-period SCA heraldry beads. Decided to experiment with my old kingdom, Ealdormere's trillium. Not overly impressed with how it turned out, still much to learn, but not likely to do so as I have absolutely no use for such blatantly out of period beads. NEVER going to experiment with my current kingdom or principality's arms as I think I can do neither a lion nor a griffin on a bead and I'm not going to try.
The first bead is actually a flatish medallion-like thing, with the trillium on one side only. The trillium is mostly raised, with only the green leaves melted in. The "flatish" is because it was flat when I decorated it, but afterwards I was trying to even it out and thus made it kinda strange on the back-side. The second bead is your standard round bead with a trillium on each side (2), with the leaves entirely melted in and the "seed" in the centre left raised.
Like I said, with my wanting to stick to period beads for my own use I have no use for these myself. If anyone out there wants them, speak up!
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Re: wow
Date: 2005-09-06 04:10 am (UTC)Re: wow
Date: 2005-09-06 04:33 am (UTC)which find is it from? (where and when ?)
Re: wow
Date: 2005-09-06 05:07 am (UTC)The first plate of horny beads says "Hallstatt period to modern times. Stradonice, /nm, beads." and then lists each individual bead by number (catalogue number in the dig maybe?
The second plate also lists beads by number and says "La Tene period. Stradonice" Scale is 2:1 and you can get an idea of size by the hole punch, remembering that it's been reduced so 4 pages fit on one, so it's probably about to scale.