Abel has been busy.

He came up with The Awesome. For sure:

"Who was looking for Tim Dawson's Everyday Women's Clothing of the Byzantine Empire?
It appears that he has it for sale on his website.
http://www.levantia.com.au/

Under 'products'.

Oh, and I assume that they have seen the http://nvg.org.au/

It is like an Australian SCA, but all Byzantine.

Oh, and the Levantia site talks about the first true 2-needle knitting under 'crafts'."

I'm just the messenger, folks, but it's a cool job.

Jewelry

Great job on the earrings guys!
I can't believe Margo put those together while suffering from heat stroke. :)

Here's a link to some extant jewelry...

Hot gold mess

Earrings, first attempt.

I'm not sure how accurate these are (aesthetically, yes, but historically, I'll need to research more), but I'm proud of them as a first attempt.


(Sorry about the blurriness; the kitchen was not the best place to do this).
Made at Kingdom A&S, sitting outside in a tent, exclusively from memory. I think I will be making many more pairs in the future.

Not bad for 10 minutes work

So I got some beads and started playing around, and this was the first I came up with. The little dangles are real pearls, and cost 75 cents apiece (which is probably steep, but what the hell). The gold beads are galvanized gold 6/0 seed beeds that I got to play with. While I was at the bead shop I also got two strands of pearls and assorted other stuff to play with. Now I am working on making the bracelets. I very much must have them.

Fonts

Here are some fonts I found. They have some great Byzantine designs which may be good for ideas.

Byzantine Textiles

Mistress Irina sent me a link that she thought we might all like.

German Museum Stuff

Jewelry TO

OK, from the awesome link that Rachael provided I ended up surfing around on Opus Interrasile and found a couple of interesting sources. The Met itself sells reproduction jewelry, if you surf their store you can find some awesome (if expensive) stuff. One that I thought might be within reach for some people is Here

Now, that is a little steep so I also found some not so perfect reproduction stuff that still looks pretty good Here at a cheaper price.

I am fascinated by the jewelry and the Rock Crystal pieces that are on the Met site. Now to figure out how to do it.