Laurel
An Exploration of Twisted Placenta Ceramics
Follow my adventures as colored clay forms shapes, and twists into a quest for excellence and an analogy for character.
Exhibit Category: Cultures Outside of Western Europe
An Online Visual Dictionary of Scythian Artifacts
Creating a shareable online visual dictionary for Scythian artifacts that can be visually sorted by material, use, decoration, geography or century.
Bardic Pilgrimage: the 2021 Stopover
Meandering musings about needing to learn more Bardic stuff
A Mongolian Case Study: Functionality and Proportions
Explores the functionality of clothing and proportional measuring systems in the context of a Mongolian clothing project.
A Lobed Phiale
Process of creating an ancient lobed phiale or drinking bowl.
Scythian Hat and Other Projects
This is a collection of projects that I have been working on recently. I made a Scythian hat for a friend and have been playing with some basic metal working which is all very fun and very new to me.
Laurel
Experimental Archeology: “Scythian” Felt Booties and Stockings of the Pazyryk Altai
Pazyryk Bootie
Silk Road Goods
Welcome. Join me in my journey through the Pottery and bookbinding methods of Tang Dynasty China and the land where the sun rises Japan.
SCA Combat Filipino Kalasag Project
A pre-colonial Filipino war shield sends me on personal journey and search for understanding a part of who I am.
Beginning my Mughal Indian Garb Journey
Join me on my journey as I learn to create the garb of the women in and among the courts of Mughal India. I am a beginner sewer and creator and invite you to see what I have learned.
Kanavati