East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
Hear, Ye! Hear, Ye! Join Baron Tree of the Forest, Pennsic Mayor 46 in his search for cover art for the Pennsic 46 Booklet. All youth who will be under 18 for Pennsic 46 are invited to submit one work of 2D art to Youth Point between Wednesday of Peace Week – August 3, and Wednesday of …
To all Rattan and Rapier Combatants that are attending War of the Roses, please pray attend. There will be “Pennsic like” authorization and inspection points at War of the Roses this year. The process will work the same as it does for Pennsic. Combatants will have their armor and weapons inspected by the marshals. Once …
The King’s Champion is Lord Gellyes Joffrey. The Queen’s Champion is Lord Kenimathor of Lochleven. The EK Gazette thanks Master Rowen Cloteworthy for reporting today.
It is with regret that the EQUESTRIAN Activities at this weekend’s Hastilude Event in the Barony of Dragonship Haven, Bethany, CT are CANCELLED. Everything else is still a go!
In response to requests from our membership, there is a new process for accessing the electronic newsletters!! Go to: [ members.sca.org ]( http://members.sca.org ) Log in with the same login information that you use to renew your membership. There is even an option to “remember me on this computer”, so you don’t have to enter in your login information …
Unto the populace of the East Kingdom, greetings, It has been my pleasure to serve this realm as EK Archivist for these past 12 years. It is now time for me to step down and pass the office unto another gentle. The responsibilities of the office include maintaining the accrued items that presently are in …
The Æthelmearc Gazette reports that their kingdom has new heirs, Prince Marcus and Princess Margerite. For more information, read the Æthelmearc Gazette article.
At last month’s Board of Directors meeting, the Grand Council was disbanded after a little over twenty years of service to the Society. After the decision was announced, it became clear that some members of the SCA weren’t aware of the Grand Council, its history or its activities. The Gazette thought it would be useful …
Our ninth A&S Research Paper comes to us from Lady Adrienne d’Evreus, of the Province of Malagentia. She turns to the flora of her woodlands to learn ways that medieval painters made green pigments. (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
Making green paint medievally with spring irises and fall buckthorn berries
Many medieval manuscripts explain how to make green for illumination with seasonably available resources. Excited to make green from my local plants, I used iris in May and buckthorn in September to make some beautiful green paint using instructions from an anonymous medieval treatise, De Arte Illuminandi. Even with some incorrect assumptions about materials, by using translated fourteenth century instructions as a guide with iris blossoms and buckthorn berries, beautiful green pigment was produced.
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Yesterday in Tir Mara, Duke Brion Anthony Uriel Tarragon won the right to make his consort, Duchess Anna Ophelia Holloway Tarragon, Princess of the Eastern Kingdom. He first made her a princess just over thirty years ago, and they ruled as the 34th Crowns of the Kingdom of Atenveldt. They have twice before ruled as …