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 Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics By Sekhet Naneferenpet - Jenn H. Feel free to email or message me on FB with any questions.  What you need to know: 1. Hieroglyphics are not a kind of picture writing and do not correspond with our alphabet. Their writing system contains phonetic images called phonograms. They are read as the sound of the object they represent. 2. The alphabetical element of the ancient writing system was combined with pictorial and symbolic elements. An understanding of all three elements, phonetic, pictorial and symbolic is necessary to translate Egyptian hieroglyphs – the alphabetical element is a great way to start. 3. They did not contain vowels such as E, I, O, U, but did use the letter A. Consonants used are B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, W, Y, and Z. 4. L, O, V, X are not used. The letter L did not appear until the Ptolemaic Period with the lion symbol portraying it. 5. Direction of writing! Ancient hieroglyphics were written both vertical ...

Ties are easy to make. In not positive they were period in SCA clothing, maybe in some but this is a requested and non A & S judged project. Grommets are a no no. But they are useful for the quicker fun projects as well. My friend wanted a Tudor dress which comes in several pieces. I even did a little research on the style she liked. This time I'm deciding to make ties for the sides of the bodice instead of closing sides and opening the back. Anyway for ties, all you have to do is use the same material from the main cloth your using. Cut long strips first with maybe a width of 1 inch. Go ahead and on one end tie a regular shoelace bow. This is your check to see how long will be needed. Undo and measure. Mine came out to 16 inches and will be cutting 5 of them at that many inches. On the bodice I went ahead also and measured out where they are going on all sides. Total of 10 on left and 10 on the right. That's 20 in total. White chalk all your measures and cut. Chalk your ...

This is what I've learned over the years in art.  For layering colors, start with a base color.  Find another color slightly lighter of the same lineage for the 2nd. You'll add the 2nd color to your picture as highlights to make the picture pop better. You'll see in the Meridies greenery I used 2 main colors. Dark green and light green. Let it dry. Then you can go in with a much darker color. Instead of using a pen, I used a Prussian blue not black to darken up the stem and a little on the leaves. Let it dry again. This time add white with a tiny bristle brush or a tiny toothpick. You don't need much white. Too much will cause your picture too look awful. Watering the white down also helps. Add a bit of white on the surface of the object to make it look more realistic or pop even more. The good thing with knots you can paint over lines in certain sections to stay within the knot. If you want to give a knot more dimension instead of looking just flat matte, find a paint...

Basketweave Setup – Thread Placement The Honeycomb Effect By Lady Johanna Fleming Step by Step 1)     Start by warping a border with your background threads. 2)     Warp your single pattern threads 3)     Warp 2 backgrounds 4)     Continue alternating between 1 (pattern) and 2 (background) threads until you have a sufficient # of pattern threads a.      The # of Pattern threads should be equal to the # of columns in the pattern. The # of columns IS important for setup. The # of rows is irrelevant. 5)     Warp your border of background color and you’re ready to weave! a.      For the middle section – your pattern threads you’ll see are alternating between heddle and open. When you begin to inkle weave, this thread placement will create a honeycomb or basketweave look. Keep in mind when reading this pattern; you start from top to bottom, left t...

Tutorial is done!! Took a week and a half to write up a tutorial on "Beginning Pick Up Weaving." To be taught this coming weekend at Daggers and Hemlock SCA Event in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. You can find the tutorial here if you missed the class and also watch a video that goes with it. Videos are slowly being uploaded to Youtube.com because they freaking take a long time to upload!Hoping to get 2 more videos uploaded on how to actually warp correctly the Horizontal method and the other on starting and finishing. Part 3: Copy of Tutorial: Pick Up Weaving: Horizontal Stripe Method By Lady Johanna Fleming (AKA Jennifer H.) For horizontal stripes, you need your pattern threads in the open position and your backgrounds in the heddle position. You’ll need the same number of threads counting left to right; we do not count from top to bottom. The number of columns is important but not the number of rows. You can add a border; they will be just as wide as the pattern...