Psaltery Dreams

Happy Thanksgiving from Psaltery Dreams. Its been a good year and we hope that everyone has a happy and safe Thanksgiving weekend.

Feast of the Unicorn this year was held at the Clinton House, a great site with a large hall and spacious grounds. There were classes on middle-eastern garb, and belly dancing, rapier, and armored combat tournaments, archery, and a game of atl-atl bocce. We have thirty-seven photos from the event in our photo archive. See photos from this event

This weekend Psaltery Dreams will be at Feast of the Unicorn. Its a great event hosted by the canton of Cyddlain Downs. Pictures of the event should be up sometime on Sunday. We will be bringing a new toy weapon, the oriental repeating crossbow.

With almost 500 pictures from the event on our camera it was difficult to decide what to post from this great and exciting event. We arrived on site Thursday afternoon and left at noon on Sunday and had a ball the whole time. The combat was great, people enjoyed themselves and the party’s at night were a blast. Anyone who missed this war will regret it. Read the rest of this entry »

War if the Wings is over and we managed to take almost 500 pictures at the event. Given the large number of photos we have to edit it will take at least until Monday night for all the editing to be completed. A more complete event report will be posted with the pictures

Next week we will be at the SCA event War of the Wings III. Psaltery Dreams will be unable to work on any orders from Monday October 5 to Monday October 13. We hope to have  a great time at this event and will have some great new items to show off.

We recently traded in our old homemade tent for a 18′X20′ Panther Primitives pavilion. Although this tent is slightly smaller than our previous one it is more waterproof and weather-tight. Hopefully we will have a big banner to go with this tent by the next event we bring it to (most likely The Tournament of Y’mir).

A Day in Medieval Life 2008 is an SCA demo to raise money for the Friends of the Hartsville Library. It was a fun educational event open to to public. The full gamut of SCA activities were available for the public’s viewing archery, equestrian, rapier combat and armored combat. Read the rest of this entry »

The Mercer Shoppe was a nice event with classes on sewing, great displays of beautiful period clothing, and a relaxing luncheon. Everyone who could not make it to this open to the public SCA event, missed a great chance to learn about many facets of garb creation and the chance to purchase some nice fabric.

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Tomorrow Psaltery Dreams is heading to The Mercer Shoppe, as ther is no combat at this event I am not sure how many photos there will be of this event. Lady Syible, our seamstress, will teaching a class on pattern drafting and altering commercial pattern to fit a period style.

We received two new photos from one of our customers of her son wearing one of our best selling items the Infant T-tunic outfit.