Why the Vegetable Lamb?

When I was consulting with a local herald about getting started with a device, and what would I want on it, she mentioned Vegetable Lambs and it stuck. It's just such a delightful whimsical image.

The Vegetable Lamb was brought to the attention of the European populus by the Travels of Sir John Mandevillle.

The manuscript says as follows:

Wherefore I say you, in passing by the land of Cathay toward the high Ind and toward Bacharia, men pass by a kingdom that men clepe Caldilhe, that is a full fair country. And there groweth a manner of fruit, as though it were gourds. And when they be ripe, men cut them a-two, and men find within a little beast, in flesh, in bone, and blood, as though it were a little lamb without wool. And men eat both the fruit and the beast. And that is a great marvel. Of that fruit I have eaten, although it were wonderful, but that I know well that God is marvellous in his works.

St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XVI, f. 84v – Jean de Mandeville, Antichrist (Travels of Sir John Mandeville) - with illustrations ( https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/ssg/0016 )

Greek Garb

Lochac is a very warm Kingdom in the summer months, and the reaction of many is the quite sensible idea of looking into a Greek or Roman persona  no matter where you come from.

I have a lovely Roman set of garb that I was gifted as a newcomer, but I want to try and make my own. I have decided to try Greek garb as it has only two layers,  chiton and himation, rather than the three of Roman tunica, stolla and palla, and it is a wander into something different.

My inspiration are the Tanagra figurines of between about 300 and 50 BCE and other Hellenistic artworks

Examples;

Wealthy 'Middle-class' woman: so-called Tanagra figurine
Hellenistic Greece, 325–150 BC, Altes Museum

Hellenistic terracotta funerary wall painting of a seated man and a standing woman

Wealthy 'Middle-class' woman

Terracotta draped woman

Design and Fabric

The I will be using is linen.
Not only is it period, it's also very light and cool to wear.

I have come across this design for pattern from another SCAdian, the very talented Ana, and her blog http://yetanotherscablog.blogspot.com/ 

This post will be updated once I have gathered my materials.

Reference links (because they always disappear when you try and search for them again)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanagra_figurine
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tafg/hd_tafg.htm
https://cycladic.gr/en/exhibit/kp0069-idolio-tanagraias?cat=archaia-elliniki-techni
https://cycladic.gr/en/exhibits/archaia-elliniki-techni
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grdr/hd_grdr.htm
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/247882

Department of Greek and Roman Art. “Ancient Greek Dress.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grdr/hd_grdr.htm (October 2003)
Koda, Harold. “The Chiton, Peplos, and Himation in Modern Dress.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/god3/hd_god3.htm (October 2003)

What is this blog for?

My name is Primislava, and I am from the Kingdom of Lochac

This blog is going to cover my wanderings and adventures as I wander down the rabbit hole that is historical reenactment and the Society for Creative Anachronism, and do battle with the pages and pages of pinterest links that do not go back to their source documentation.