Crown tourney A&S

I withdrewn tapestry away from the competition after judges suggested me to improve documentation of it. I had made a mistake by thinking that book, written in Finnish is a valid part of documentation. Now I will make a new better documentation and made a new entry from it later. I do not know yet, where it will happen.

Longbow won the competition, although it had not a perfect documentation either.

Three items in A&S competition tomorrow crown tourney

I will have three items in Royal Artesan competition this weekend:

1. Tapestry of Mars and Silvia size 250x150cm, project time nearly 4 years
2. Long bow made from yew. Project time 13 months
3. Map from finnish Gulf. Project time one month.

I am interested to get others opinion. Bow was already voted as a most beautiful two weeks ago in archers meeting beauty contest.

Book of "weaving a middle age tapestry" is finally done

Unfortunately book is available only in Finnish. I will put it here for everybody to download free. I have the copyright for the text, but since I do not see that I could ever get money back from printing this book, I think it is better to let people whom are interested, to have it free.

Bow nearly done

Tillering is almost ready. I still need to put tips in to bow.

Still tillering

Here I have already 15" draw. Right limb has been a long time harder to get bend.

Yours in Service

I was thinking how long time I have had a some SCA office to handle.

2004-2008        3.5 years Aarnimetsä Captain of Archers
2008-2012        4 years Drachenwald Captain General of Archers
2014-2016         Aarnimetsä Minister of Arts and Science

Tillering the bow

I have been tillering the bow. It starts to be quite good already.

 I ´have also steam bended it to get it straight. It was bending little too much to the side. In picture you can see it pressed to turn it little over the straight line after steaming.