Persona Pentathlon entry

[telerib]

"A Northern naughty nun of the ninth century."

I think that'll be the organizing persona - a bored noblewoman consigned to a convent with no vocation and a lot of time on her hands. The five items will be:

* The tafl game, for whiling away time she ought to be spending in prayer

* A white or brightly-colored headdress and fillet, like Aldhelm condemns in nuns

* A (translation of a) Latin women's love song from The Cambridge Songs and (original) music for it

* A (translation of an) Anglo-Saxon love poem and music for it (Wulf and Eadwacer, already done)

* The Leather Object

The tafl game is close to being done (except for the ornamental border but I don't think that'll happen before March)

I have a gold faux-brocaded fillet already, if I don't get to make another one, and I have some white silk and purple silk thread. I could make a nice veil out of that.

Wulf and Eadwacer is done, although I have to get the score right. I don't think it'll take me long to do up one of the Cambridge Songs.

My next hurdle on the Leather Object is finding appropriate leather and a form to mold it on (if I use the cuir bouilli technique, as opposed to stuffing it). An old-fashioned wooden broomstick would be ideal, but I can't think of the last time I saw one. They're all plastic and metal now. Maybe they'd have one at Home Depot?

Comments

[janinas-nest.livejournal.com]

We have a rather large diameter wooden dowel that is not currently in use. It is rather long, and may return to its original function at some point, but not soon. Could you use that?

[telerib.livejournal.com]

Maybe! Would it accept a threaded screw on one end? I have some 1" drawer pulls (my taflmen) which I could use to round the end.