Embellishers Grand Accademia

Hosted by

The Canton of Kaldor Ness (Columbia County, OR)

Event Summary

Event Main Contact (Event Steward): Muireann inghean ui Mhuirneachain
Date: February 18 , 2012 until February, 19 2012
Site opens at: 12:00 AM on February 18th 2012
Site closes at: 12:00 AM on February 19th 2012

Event site:
Scappoose High School
33700 SE High School Way Scappoose, OR 97056

Embellishers
Grand Accademia 

February
18-19, 2012

Click www.kaldorness.org for full class information and
registration form.

The Canton of
KaldorNess cordially invites you to the Embellishers Grand
Accademia, February 18^th – 19^th, 2012. 
The event site is Scappoose High School, 33700 SE High School Way,
Scappoose, OR 97056.

Attendance is by
pre-registration only. Go to www.kaldorness.org  for
registration form and detailed class
information.

Questions on
classes: contact the Dean
– HL Muireann inghean ui Mhuirneachain (503) 396-5290 (h)
or madmarshalls@gmail.com
(Mka Murna Marshall, 34058 Sykes
Rd., St Helens OR 97051)

Site
& Volunteers: for gate, crash space, food, setup &
cleanup please contact the Liaison – HL Carith de Cuevas
(503) 543-3362 (h) or gribbit@gmail.com

Registrations: Payment
must accompany class registration.  Registration information
will be available  1/13/2012  :  Make checks payable
to SCA, Inc.  Accademia dei Studiosi. Payment must be
postmarked no later than Saturday, February 4^th,
2012. The $5 NMS applies to
non-members. There will be no childcare available for this event
and classes may not be appropriate for children under 12 (see
detailed class descriptions for notes on youth).
 Send check with
registration form to Acting Exchequer Appoline D’Avignon c/o
Catherine Best 33844 NE Erin Drive  Scappoose, OR
 97056   503-543-4810
 email kaldorness@gmail.com  

Food
& Lodging: A snack table will be available for
everyone so please consider bringing food donations to share and/or
a financial donation to help with the expense (no plug ins). 
Space is available in the cafeteria for all to eat lunch.  The
Liaison will have a list of local food and lodging available at the
event.

Class
Schedule

Saturday Gate Opens 8
AM

Saturday 9-11
AM

• Beginning Goldwork:  Setting up – Gold
  Class 1
• Crow Quill Pen Frills  
• Acanthus, Mantling and Floral Borders
• Introduction to Bookbinding
• Anatomy of an Embellishing Project.
• Castles and Fortifications

Saturday
11AM-1 PM

• Beginning Goldwork:  Couching and
  Laidwork  – Gold Class 2
• Methods of Medieval Leather Decoration
• Lampworked Glass Beads
• Japanese Bookbinding
• Painted Tapestries & Banners
• Castles and Fortifications, cont.

Lunch 1-2
PM

Saturday 2-4
PM

• Beginning Goldwork:  Bullion, beads,
  spangles and other glittery bits.  – Gold Class 3
• Woodblock Printing on Cloth
• Basic Wood Embellishments
• Period Style Book Covers for Mundane
  Books
• Beginning Bobbinlace
• Long-Arm Cross Stitch / Split Stitch Using
  Cotton Embroidery Floss

Saturday 4-6
PM

• Or Nue – Gold Class 4
• The Sgabello Hall Chair
• Appliqué methods for SCA Bling
• Beginning Bobbinlace, cont.
• Hauftaffle: or Norse Chess.

No Host
Dinner 6:30-7 PM at  (Possibles:  Portland Pyramid
Brewery in the Industrial District  or  Ixtapa Mexican
Restaurant – Scappoose)

Sunday Gate Opens 8:30
AM

Sunday 9-11
AM

• Simplified, Heraldic, Period Leather
  Carving
• Two Color Basket Weaving
• Introduction to Blackwork
• Beginning Embroidery
• Braid Stitches – Gold Class 5
• Gothic-Architecture of Functional
  Embellishment:  (And how you can use it)

Sunday 11 AM
– 1 PM

• Introduction to Gold Leaf
• Charter Painting 101
• Beginning Bead Embroidery
• Pillow Sachet
• Making Portuguese Needleworked Carpets
• Pyrography: a discussion on techniques for
  creating designs through the use of Pyrography (wood
  burning)
• Gold work open workshop

Lunch 1-2
PM

Sunday 2-4
PM

• How to Draft a parti-colored T-Tunic 
  /  Chinese Button Knot Tying  
• Constructing Ghillie Shoes
• Assisi Work
• Introduction to Fingerloop Braiding
• Making Historical Paternosters and
  Rosaries
• Achievements in Art: Using Heraldry in
  Embellishment
• Gold work open workshop

Site closes 4:30
PM