#northshields

[fendercapaldi]

I think it's sweet Sam still supports his hometown friends a d their music even after he's gotten so famous !

He's a humble guy and that's why I love him.

[aryanastravels]

Sunset today at the Fish Quay, North Shields #fishquay #northshields #rivertyne #river #rio #sunsets #sunsets_captures #sunsetsky #sunsetlover #sunset_pics #sunsetphotography #pordosol #puestadesol #seagull #waterreflection #skyline #landscapephotography #landscape_lovers #landscape_captures #paisagem #naturephotography #cloud #sky_captures #skylovers #naturaleza (at North Shields Fish Quay) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnITOeEM5jl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[goingundergoldrush]

Garn to North Shields tomorrow with all of your smutty Sam imagines in my mind, thanks…. No, really, thank you 😏

I’ll be like that theme park, whats is called again? Oh aye, wet and wild.

[alanreed]

North Shields Fish Quay A scene I’ve painted several times since I first received a commission to do some River Tyne paintings in 1985. My style has changed over the years but I never tire of painting this view. The last rays of a winter sun strike the hulls of the fishing boats and the port of Tyne buildings. #rivertyne #northshields #northshieldsfishquay #fishingboats #trawlers #trawler #watercolour #watercolourpainting #northeast (at Alan Reed Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjuoRTfo6O6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sca-nerd]

GO MAKE AN AWARD RECOMMENDATION.

This is your reminder that their Majesties (current and future) rely on the eyes and voices of the populace to recognize the exceptional members of your Kingdom. They cannot see every act of service or skill, and they need your help to ensure that those who shine brightly are celebrated.

Do you know someone who deserves recognition? Whether it’s for service, arts, combat prowess, simply being a lovely person who makes events or activities that much better, or any other outstanding contribution, please take a moment to submit your award recommendations.

Don't be afraid to recommend yourself. You are allowed to be proud of your own contributions and request that you be recognized for them. If you are hesitant to do it, then ask someone in your Kingdom to do it for you. Everyone should be appreciated for their contribution of living the dream, because without each of you there isn't one.

And for those who don't feel the need for awards or even like they don't deserve one - then please accept my sincere gratitude for being who you are and being that person well. You're awesome, and I appreciate you.

Sincerely, Your SCA Mom (or Aunt)

[crazy-write]

So I got to marshal a fight on top of a castle at an event this weekend. Highlight of the day, hands down

[burningknucklecraftworks]

Finished product first, held by my wonderful spouse. Northshield is a kingdom big on the power of light. Our motto includes illumination as a virtue. We have a star named Griffin's Light. On top of the society A&S badge being a candle, our A&S awards are the Black Flame and Brigit's Flame. Since about year two of my tenure in the SCA I've dreamed of making a lantern scroll to honor that aspect and now I've done two. I'm so grateful to be surrounded by people who inspire me to push my boundaries and make cool art.

As such, these are lantern scrolls for Brigit's Flame awards, the GOA level Northshield arts and science award. One is for my wonderful friend Thegn Samson Muskovich (aka Samii), who does so much for the arts and sciences of the SCA. From metalworking with bronze and silver, to leatherwork and armoring, to teaching about existing as a trans person in the SCA and deep diving into the experience of the Gullah Geechee and making sure we know that the experience of Africans trafficked to America is as period as their resilience and resistance. I'm so proud that he's my cousin in the Choctaw tribe. The second is for the magnificent Dame Katerinka Lvovicha (aka Kat), who received her Brigit's Flame in 2015 but never got the scroll for it. She also does so much for Northshield, especially in the realms of heraldry and scribal arts, and she blasts a path for all Northshielders to feel safe by being extremely proactive about pronouns, cultural touchstones, and literally offering housing and travel assistance to people.

The inspirations for the project include these four lanterns and Morgan Donner's lantern build video. In the top row are two illustrations from period showing lanterns. The red lantern is from Book of Hours, MS M.972 fol. 1r, and has a bit of a splayed shape with a wider base and a turned dome at the top. It also has horn panels that aren't quite perfect fits for each side panel, as evidenced by the uneven horizontal lines. The second lantern, held by a crotchety dragonesque beast, is from Breviary, MS M. 8 fol. 158r and has a flat top with straight sides.

The second row shows two lantern awards made by other SCAdians. The first was made by Brig Ingen Erennaigh for a baronial service award called the Coill's Beacon, and the second is an Award of Arms by Northshield's own Tatiana Melville.

My original plan was actually to make a couple of so-called Viking lanterns like the kind you see all over Etsy. These usually consist of a top and bottom disc of wood, with dowels in between, and parchment or rawhide wrapped around the exterior. Extremely simple, and the parchment provides the perfect scroll text surface, but thanks to Morgan Donner's video, I now know those are dated to the 1800s. The idea of illuminated parchment stuck with me though and I decided to make a lantern more along the lines of the Breviary lantern but with simulated parchment in place of horn panes. I felt this was a good compromise between my original plan and a documentably period shape.

I didn't leave myself enough time to make this scroll, between the shield I made for Crown Tournament and Halloween festivities. Thinking fast, I ran out to my local hardware store for some precut 6 inch rounds. The ones I got have an ahistoric Roman ogee routed into the edge, but they'll add some nice visual detail to the scrolls.

Splitting my poplar side beams to width was vaguely harrowing on my radial arm saw. It would've been better to use my bandsaw but it's really not set up for use yet, so I made a janky jig and stood off to the side.

I was successful, and began the annoying process of carving 24 dowel tips.

Tools of the trade, and five doweled supports installed in the first base.

The coping saw did a great job of parting off each dowel end.

Dog bless the Shinso rasp. This thing makes my woodworking experience so much easier.

I got one set done and checked my progress. This looks really, really good so far.

I then grabbed some copper and went to town making the candle holders. I wanted these to have some give for different diameters of candles, including electric candles. These were made entirely off of Morgan Donner's video and aren't based on anything I personally researched, so I can't say anything to their historocity beyond knowing that sheet copper definitely wasn't the material of choice back then. I used a spare fat poplar dowel to form both holders.

I then used sidecutters to make the flanges, and bent them out flat. I used some brass brads to nail the holders to the bases, and pressed them through with my drill press just as I did with the tacks to the targe I made last month.

At this stage I needed to do a test fit, and boy was I happy with the way it looked so far. Now, I must say that this is not enough spacing between the candle and the lantern roof. It'll probably be alright, but it could also get pretty dang hot and risk a fire in there. A shorter candle would be better, but I have a hundred of these beeswax candles so I'm gonna give them away as gifts whenever I can.

Since the Book of Hours lantern is red and Samii's livery colors are red and gold, I painted his lantern red. I used a few different paints mixed together to achieve this shade, and then I sprayed the whole thing with matte polyurethane sealant.

I decided to make Kat's a nice golden oak color in contrast to the red lantern, based on so many being light colored in the various illustrations and illuminations I saw. It was down between this and painting it blue to match her arms, but I think I'm glad I did two very different finishes. The poplar is so green that the oak stain couldn't really compensate, but it's not bad. This lantern was sealed with finishing wax.

At this point Kim stepped in to get the scrolls done. This is Pergamenata, a perennial favorite of SCA scribes for having a similar surface feel and translucency to animal parchment. Usually I do illumination and word smithing while they just do the hand writing, but this time they took on all three of those tasks, much to my joy.

Here's Kat's scroll panes before color. You can see Kim used a template made off my test fit of the lantern to get the spacing correct. They used Speedball india ink and matched the hand to the calligraphy in CNM XXIII.C.124 Velislavova Bible, which they also took the design of the torch from.

Both scroll panes inked, painted and drying. We chose these scrolls to try tempera paint for the first time and the translucency of the tempera on the translucency of the perg is just so good.

Here's Kat's scroll panels with the oak-stained side supports.

Here's Samii's scroll panels with the red side supports.

The final assembly process. I had to cut the scroll panels into individual panes, because the spacing wasn't perfect. I used wood glue to affix the perg panes to the backside of each support, holding or clamping alternately to keep everything in place as the glue-wet perg curled away from the supports and then uncurled as the adhesive cured. It was a pain in the ass but it worked out. I then had to form two bronze rings for the tops of each lantern, and install hooks and loops to close the back pane, which has one end loose and wrapped around a thin piece of basswood.

Here is the final assembly completed, showing the door hooks made of bronze and the eyelet screws made of brass. This is not a very historic door shape, but it's what Morgan Donner hacked together for her lanterns and if it worked for her it'll work for me.

Kat's scroll completed as well, and here's the only view I have of the top suspension ring.

And of course it's not a lantern if you don't see it illuminated. I gave both recipients a beeswax candle and an electric candle, and this photo was taken with the electric candle in place. I had to wrap gaffer tape around the base to make it fit. The electric candle is actually pretty bright! Look at that pretty red paint, and not the fact that the support is slightly angled.

[katerinkalvovicha]

This is my Triathalon Entry for the 2023 Northshield Kingdom Arts & Sciences Competition, held 22 April. This was supposed to be an easy project: make a paint brush, write a poem, put ink and paint on a piece of parchment so that it looks like the Book of Deer. I am a scribe so I know how to calligraph and illuminate. I am a bard so I know how to write poetry. I know how to make things so I could make a paintbrush. Easy peasy, right?

Wrong.

For one 6x8 manuscript page, I:

Completed 57 pages of written documentation

Compiled over 40 pages of appendix documents

Accessed well over 100 different resources including thesis papers and books

Drafted three general use documentation templates

Wrote a research paper which failed to definitively prove or disprove the existence of paintbrushes

Cut my own reed and quill pens

Made 20+ paintbrushes and used two on my project

Collected 80+ pieces of evidence

Mixed my own orpiment (arsenic) and minium (red lead) paints

Learned how to do freehand knotwork

Acquired one new calligraphy hand

Charted, from scratch, the poetics (rhyme, meter, alliteration) of a specific poem

And wrote a poem in a style which was NOT intended to be written in English

The project took approximately 110 hours spread over 6 weeks. The financial outlay was significant as well: I spent over $100 just in printing costs.

Thankfully, my hard work was recognized: I was awarded first place in the Triathalon and second place in the overall open division for my research paper.

The poem I wrote was inspired by my favorite blacksmith, Master Crispin Fletcher, OL, OP.

Scribe and Smith

Clever craft-folk, he and I

Pen and forge are matched allies

Black iron tools to reach our goal

Mine, gall-ink and his, charcoal

Checking once then twice for sure

Ruler ready, he measures.

"It fits! Yay!" I gleefully preen

Lines with letters like sardines.

Inspired, he feeds his forge fire

Bellows blow, flames climb higher

My own burning questions press

Answers bring light to darkness

Red iron bends with shifting blows

He commands, metal follows.

A quieter smith, I sit

Forging phrases: my habit

Careful strikes create knife's edge

Honing blades with deep knowledge

Honing stanzas, setting free

Meanings made with right trochee

Fixing words, removing scale

Expert eyes see each detail

His hands black from smoke and soot

Mine stained too by my inkpot

Coals cool as he finds his rest

Aching arm gives loud protest.

Three fingers write, eyes are sore

Pen speaks, whole body labors.

A like pair, this scribe and smith,

With rocks and spite, make mischief.

Smelting, shaping, making pure,

Out of naught, something clever.

My documentation is linked below. I will note that the poetics documentation is a little thin; I was intentionally testing the limitations of Northshield’s verbal documentation guidelines. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

Oh Where Is My Paint Brush: Tools for Insular Manuscript Production 850 CE to 950 CE

Oh Deer: A Reproduction of MS Ii.6.32 f. 5r and 71v

Scribe and Smith: A 9th Century Irish Poem in the Deibide Style

Writing instruments by date

Book of Deer ductus

Pangur Ban poetics chart

[rollingstonesdata]

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[littledomstuff]

North Shields Fish Quay, a change from ink sketching: #painting #watercolour #northshields #northshieldsfishquay https://www.instagram.com/p/CDJbtH3HDQt/?igshid=pdqnhkzd4dt2

[oakwellupvc-blog]

#ourwhitleybay #tyneandwear #tynemouth #cramlington #newcastle #northshields #northtyneside #oakwellwindowsanddoors https://www.instagram.com/p/B8b6wxrHeln/?igshid=nrxx2uizi49h

[aryanastravels]

Crisp but beautiful day at the Mouth of the Tyne #northshields #southshields #lowtide #landscapes #landscapephotography #landscape #paisagem #cloud #cloudphotography #cloudlovers #nuvem #sky #skylovers #skyphotography #skyline #ceu #cielo #winterdays #blackmiddens #naturephotography #nature #amateurphotography #greatoutdoors #greatbritain #greatshots #outdoorlife #outdoorliving (at Black Middens) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpp0Ah3M7rA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tudorblogger]

Been out for a nice walk today; it was surprisingly warm! The skies were very pretty 😍 and I stopped off at @woods.coffee for an ice cream milkshake! #walk #northshields #tynemouth #tynemouthpriory #woodscafe #icecreammilkshake #milkshake #collingwoodmonument (at Tynemouth Priory and Castle) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2G6NnMTTs/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[huscrofts]

Nice pair of Movie Lamps Vintage Shopping at Huscrofts Tynemouth Fringe meet the Ginge #tynemouth #northshields #fishquaynorthshields #vintagelighting #forsale #vintageshop #antiques #vintagesalvage #vintageshopping #vintagenewcastle #decorativesalvage (at Huscrofts Decorative Salvage - North Shields) https://www.instagram.com/p/BptifHOBxYo/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=sxj873r8ghqi

[sca-nerd]

Terribly sorry, I am actually in the realm of northshield. I’ve heard songs about atlantia, ealdormere, atenveldt…. But still looking for people publishing music about Northshield.

Mmmmm... I think I've only heard one, tbh. Something about coming home to Northshield? I am going to have to ask my Northshield mutuals to help out, because I am once again useless, I'm sorry!

[waynemadden]

Another one of #ShieldsFerry taken yesterday, in #NorthShields, probably my favourite shot. I’ll come up with some new material soon. (at North-South Shields Ferry) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXCWvfNsVS4/?utm_medium=tumblr