[MR] Fwd: RE: Glass Smoothers

[Kerrimart]

Pictures! Pictures! Pictures!!

Vitha
--
Kerri Martinsen


------- Original Message --------
From: "Signora Sveva Lucciola" <ladysveva at yahoo.com>
To: "Merry Rose" <atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>, "Keep"
<keep at windmastershill.org>
CC:
Subject: [MR] Fwd: RE: Glass Smoothers
Date: 25/11/03

Lady Caterina asked me to forward on the following information. Please
respond to her and not me in your replies!

> >
> > Greetings from Lady Caterina Lucrezia da Bergamo,
> >
> > 	This past weekend I had the honor of teaching at the Fiber,
> > Fabric and Fighting event held at the Shire of Nithgard, Kingdom
of
>
> > AEthelmarc.  The Event was chockfull of string things, including a
> > day long class on the Icelandic  Warp Weighted Loom by Mistress
> Thora
> > Sharptooth (we had teachers from 4 Kingdoms attending the event).
> > Amongst the many nifty things I learned at the event I was made
> aware
> > that the Glass blowers shop at Penn State is now making
> reproduction
> > Glass Smoothers.  Glass Smoothers are big "globs" of
greenish,
> black
> > glass used during the Viking age to iron linens.  The ones being
> made
> > at Penn State are after descriptions from the Birka III book and
> Lady
> > Phiala O'Cheallaigh and Master Brendan Brisbane are providing
> > information on the specs of the glass smoothers. They are IMO an
> > indispensable item for the well dressed Viking.  I took upon
myself
>
> > to broadcast the info throughout Atlantia as they are seeking  the
> > sale of the smoothers(they go for $20.00) to make sure the Glass
> shop
> > remains open.  If anybody should find they cannot live without a
> > glass smoother please e-mail me privately at ccalvi.duke.edu.
> >
> > In Service,
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Caterina Lucrezia da Bergamo
> > Canton of Kappellenberg
> > Barony of Windmasters' Hill, Atlantia
> > Per fess argent and sable a snake erect and nowed  sable and an
> > edelweiss slipped and leaved proper
> > Carla Calvi, Durham, NC
> > ccalvi at acpub.duke.edu
> >



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