A Viking Open House!!

[Nurianna]

Inside an enclosed shelter house with a fire roaring there will be many people bundled in furs and layers of viking garb, crafting on various period projects and demonstrating these crafts~

All day event in Ashville Ohio, That I will be participating in!!

follow the little link~ and see~~> :bouncy: (http://www.discoverohio.com/search/detail.asp?ID=53658&SearchID=435232)

If you live in central Ohio I hope you can come!! you'll have no problem spotting me~ Nurianna is my Gypsy/Viking/gaming name!! Introduce your self!! Please!

[Purpura]

Pics or it didn't happen Nuri


(Ooh slightly offtopicish but about the name Nuri in the Bionicle MataNui 2 game on the Bionicle website there is a guard in one of the villages named Nuri.)

[Dawn]

Followed the link and read the list of demonstrations...

101 uses for urine? :erm:

:laugh:

Hope you have a great time, Nuri! :D

[Nurianna]

Followed the link and read the list of demonstrations...

101 uses for urine? :erm:

:laugh:

Hope you have a great time, Nuri! :D

I'll see if I can get at least a partial list and post them~ The lady that does this demonstration has a lot of fun grossing out school children ;) and many of the parents too lol!

[Dawn]

I can just imagine! :crazy:

[Nurianna]

The open house was great! we had vikings working on various project around a big fireplace~ the weather was bright and warm, so we had viking games set up outside~ :( I left my 'fairey box' at home so I have no pics, but if others post links, I'll share!)

I taught 2 people Naalbinding. That was fun, Im going to offer the class again~ in a week!

[Dawn]

So did you find out the 101 uses for urine? You know that's been keeping me up at night. ;)

Glad you had a good time. Hope you find some pictures to share. :D

[Nurianna]

*cooked with a herb called wode, to get a dye for clothes, yarn and warrior paint,
*horse or cow urine rendered and mixed with animal fat and used as an antiseptic
*part of the tanning process
*also part of the bleaching process (only the first morning's urine was used for this)
*used to discourage some territorial animals
*perfumes
*cosmetics
*lots of uses for homeopathic peoples

here's a link I found too~
http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/bodily-functions/pissing/practical-uses/ <I really liked this one~ funny little quips running through it~

and there are a bunch of other links~

I didnt get a chance to listen to Connie share all of the different uses but the ones I did, were facinating.. and for the 5 samples she had (yes! she had piss on her table!!) each one was a different color ranging from clear to a deep redish amber color~

[Dawn]

Some of those were really ewwww. :crazy: Don't think I'll be using them any time soon...especially the one from the link about drinking urine. :erm: Interesting though.

[Nurianna]

it is definately interesting~ and defeniately :yuk: too! lol~

[Auburn]

Yeah! Another Naalbinder! Fun isn't it?

Were you apart of the organizing party for this? I'd like to try to have one of those down here(or something similar).

[Nurianna]

Where are you!

The books I have say the best way to learn is from one person to another and as you can tell~ im learning by hook and by crook, using badly copied pages of books and internet sites that show and tell less than I need......

:crossing fingers: please be near!!!

as for questions about hosting ask away, what I dont know I can find out,, I didnt organize the show, but I did and do participate!


The first pages of instruction :rolleyes::yeah:, showed sketches of completed slippers with a pencil drawing of the body of the material. I followed one line till I thought it looked right... so I do a circular pattern (hats, mittens, socks) that looks like a cross between a blanket stitch and chain maille~ it's working,, but it's definately not the same stitch other books are showing.. and one of the written comments in the booklet described what Im doing as not being proper naalbinding~ :suspicus: I dont know,, it works and people are wearing my creations!!

wowo... we hit a bit of a passion button here didnt we?? lol~ I love doing this craft, and I love that it pre-dates knitting and crochet, which I also love to do!

next is learning spinning... then how to shear long haired creatures...
:innocent whistle: wonder if cold weather dragons grow fur????

[Auburn]

Alas, I'm down here in Georgia, but if you ever get to come to D*C or one of the SCA Wars, I be happy to bring my naalbinding kit. I'm not very good at it as I'm just starting, but it is fun. Also I love the looks I get when I bring it to local/mundane needlework workshop.

Aren't the burdenbeasts supposed to be bred from llamas? Hopefully the Pernese kept wooly traits in the animals. Of course there might be long haired canines, or they could take the fiber from plants?

Are you apart of the Naalbinding Yahoo group? *mental note to bring her list of websites with her tomorrow.*

[Nurianna]

Noooooo...... it looks like I'll be going on a little hunt~ :good: thanks ahead for the links!!

[Selene]

Hm there is a lot of such links in swedish but I guess you have no use of them.

[Nurianna]

Hm there is a lot of such links in swedish but I guess you have no use of them.

Only if you can translate for me!! lol thanks love :hugs: