Ianthe d'Averoigne

Introduction

Countess Ianthé d'Averoigne, OL, OR, CoC, CCoM. Mostly retired from eventing life these days, although may be found online, especially on her blog String-or-Nothing or occasionally on FaceBook, dabbling in historical embroidery and knitting forums.

Projects & Publications

• Blackwork, Hand-drawn booklet on blackwork embroidery, June 1977.
• Counted Patterns from Before 1600, hand-drawn booklet of stitching patterns, June 1979, June 1980.
• The New Carolingian Modelbook: Counted Embroiery Patterns from Before 1600, Outlaw Press, 1995.
• Ensamplario Atlantio: Being a Collection of Filling Patterns Suitable for Blackwork Embroidery, Black Rose Press, 2011.
• "Observations on a Blackwork Smock," Ars Scientia Orientalis, May 2014.
• Ensamplario Atlantio II, Black Rose Press, 2020.

Photo
Ianthé circa 1978/79 - probably at Pennsic (fighting tunic)
Information
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Awards: Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Sable, on a cartouche gules fimbriated argent, a rose slipped and leaved inverted sable fimbriated argent.
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