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Revision as of 17:42, 24 March 2015
This is a work in progress (obviously). - Eleanor
Introduction
The East Kingdom Royal decoration project was originally conceived by Mistress Eleanor fitzPatrick with three goals - to make the business area of EK Royal at Pennsic be beautifully impressive instead of merely functionally utilitarian, to inspire lots of people to create the beauty and feel a sense of ownership and pride in EK Royal, and to show people that decorating a Pennsic camp is easier than they might think. Stage one was to create a set of faux-stained-glass lanterns for the courtyard to hang from the existing lantern hooks. Stage two was build a set of faux-candle chandeliers for the meeting tent.
Stage three of this project was to create a set of painted wall hangings, in the style of the Manesse Codex, depicting East Kingdom arms, awards and orders. Baroness Cassandra Boell agreed to do the hard work of converting Codex panels into flattened cartoon-like line drawings and modifying them to show EK heraldry instead of the originals. Mistress Eleanor took those converted line drawings, projected them onto canvas using a home theater projector and traced them in pencil. She hemmed them, then put them together into "paint-by-number" type kits and send them out to various teams to be painted.
Please note that the artist, Baroness Cassandra Boell has given permission for anyone to reuse her designs. Feel free to take and modify them to your own heraldry. Mix and match elements and borders and create something beautiful for your own kit. Clicking on any of the images on this page will bring you to the original, full resolution image that you can download.
Panels
Eight panels were chosen to modify to represent a broad cross-section of East Kingdom activities and orders.
The Boat Panel
The first panel, the Boat, was modified to include the Silver Crescent and Maunche order badges. It seemed appropriate to start with the orders for Service and for Arts & Sciences.
This panel went out to Mistress Ygraine of Kellswood for coloring.
The Tree Panel
The second panel, the Tree, was modified to display the arms of the King and the Queen of the East.
The Castle Panel
Artemis, Golden Mantel, Saggitarius
The Horse Panel
The Couple Panel
The Music Panel
The Children Panel
The Fencing Panel
File:Tapestries FencingOriginal.jpg
How we did it
Cassandra write up details of the graphics work
Eleanor write up the tracing/projecting/hemming/instruction-writing/kit building
input from the artist teams?
Who did it
list the artist teams here by panel
Resources
insert the art files, color and black/white
insert all the instruction sheets