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It's time to PONDER, fellas...

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Three girls from across the vast Eurasian steppe, and their really, really tall headdresses!

From left to right: the Russian kokoshnik, the Kazakh saukele, and the Mongol boqtaq.

BTW boqtaqs and kokoshniks could be worn by both married women and brides, while saukeles are normally only worn by brides in their weddings.

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Thank you so much! Likewise! Hope we get to table together again some time!

Hello, I am a red wizard, I sold some hats today. (And a board game.)

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Apologies for the image quality, I'll do some proper showy off pictures as soon as I get the chance, but yeah, that set I'm calling "pepperpots and portaloos"

Hello, I am a red wizard, I sold some hats today. (And a board game.)

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Correct, in the image on the left there's some Star Wars references, but the image on the left has different symbols in the middle. :D

Hello, I am a red wizard, I sold some hats today. (And a board game.)

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I was tired when I made this post so I failed to mention it, but this is my latest project which actually doesn't involve any felting at all, but did involved laser cutting and learning how to screenprint! :D

The Thud connection is a good observation, but this is the game that Thud is based upon, Hnefatafl, the game from viking era Scandinavia which is one of a family of games that were popular particularly in northern Europe before Chess arrived and everyone got obsessed with it.

I spent the last month or so designing the pieces and working out how to make everything, I bought the materials for the pieces for laser cutting, I bought the drawstring bags and designed the board so that I could screenprint onto them, and I printed out a set of rules to go with it!

More to follow, but feel free to spot the pop culture references hidden on the pieces! (I say hidden because I kept having to point them out to people as I was trying to sell them)

Hello, I am a red wizard, I sold some hats today. (And a board game.)

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Hello, I am a red wizard, I sold some hats today. (And a board game.)

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I have access to a cool letterpress now! And fonts for using on posters (so, quite big).

If you could reblog this to suggest some fun quotes I can typeset and print I would greatly appreciate it!

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Endangered Species Highlight: The Water Cone Wizard

(inspired by this post)

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Four cornered hat, Huari culture, Peru, 600-900 AD

from The Walters Art Museum

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Oh I am SO prepared

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I never uploaded my safety wizard costume cause I didn't get good photos so here's some from the work day!

And a special low quality recording!

I got several questions about why I wore a beard.

Because wizards have beards! XD

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I'll need to remember to look at @wizardarchives the next time I need to pose when showing off my hats for photos

Cover art by Fred Fields for Ed Greenwood’s Shadows of Doom (1995), the first book in The Shadow of the Avatar Trilogy

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I am trying new colored inks ♥ ugh, I forgot how to draw original characters, I can draw only comics and illustrations now :D

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Hats are good protection from a lot of things, for instance:

Sun

Rain

Snow

Swan venom

Butterflies with ill intent

Airplane venom

Surprise beets

Dave

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I had such a happy day contributing to the extraordinary grass root creative explosion that is Kyndelsmarknad i Lykttändargränd.

It is amazing what ordinary people willing to freely play their way to a common goal, ticking off all the hundred little musts and ought tos along the way can accomplish. I have made so many friends here over the years, and developed my own art as well.

One of my best persons traveled for hours to take part this year, and she took this picture of wizard me. Lights! Action! Transform!

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The winter fair in Malmö is coming up! I’ve made some architectural additions to the hat :)

I’ve also just finished my sixth booklet(bottom right)! This year it’s an in depth introduction to a magical creature close to my heart: the chubby owl! The only flightless owl species. And it hibernate all through the winter.

I love how the booklets now form the series I claimed there was when I joined my first market 7 years ago.