[Regia-NA] geteld

[Carolyn Priest-Dorman]

Ælfgifu (I'm slowly getting used to that) wrote:

>Ok, Thora:  I just saw your gorgemous geteld!  Tell me more!
>Did you embroider it?

Here's the quick version.

No, it's painted.  My husband did the engineering, we designed it together, 
and my apprentice and I sewed the canvas (the tent with the green 
ring-chain decoration is hers:  she does 10th century Isle of Man).  It's 
made of oil-painted ash, Sunforger canvas, and the canvas paint is diluted 
latex enamel.  The painted top is based on bear-ended hogback tombstones in 
north Yorkshire (my husband's totem is the bear), and the color scheme is 
based on those found on Viking Age painted woodwork.  (The ash is painted 
creamy pale yellow.)

I've *got* to finish that web page with the photos and the layout and the 
manuscript references we used....  A lot of it has been drafted, but it's 
just not top priority for my husband, so the engineering section hasn't 
been written yet.


Carolyn Priest-Dorman              Þóra Sharptooth
  http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/thora.html