Tiffan Fairamay

Photo
GNEW XXXII
Information
Resides: Malagentia
Status: Active
Awards: Order of Precedence
Heraldry
Per Pale Purpure and Sable, a strawberry flower between three seeblatter in pall, points outward, Argent.
Award & Office Badges

Introduction

Tiffan Fairamay [tɪ-FAHN FAIR-a-MAY] (she/they), mundanely known as Sylvan Thorncraft, is very curious and loves to make things. These tendencies, coupled with a mundane background in Anthropology and Geography (focusing on Archaeology), have supported her deep desire to understand how people of various times and places have done this “human” thing, and how our personal lives, beliefs, and domestic practices are part of a sweeping arc of time, history, and evolution of culture. She also harbors a long standing love for, and curiosity about her ancestral European roots, fairy tales and folk ways.

She says, “So when all this met up with the SCA at GNEW XXVIII I was totally dazzled and in love. I have always felt completely inspired by the passionate creativity and curiosity of our community, and also humbled and moved by the degree of personal generosity of those who love to support the Dream. Our community offers so many opportunities to share what inspires each of us, and that sharing contributes to a more rich and vibrant experience for everyone. I am so glad to keep finding ways to be of service through my own creativity.”

Persona

Pewter casting inspired by an extant brooch

This is a work in progress.

Affiliations

• Apprentice to Camille des Jardins, November 2018 to the present

Offices, Positions, Guild Associations

• Scribe - East Kingdom College of Scribes, April 2018 to the present. Visit my Scriptorium to see finished projects.
• Guild Member/Journeyman - Keepers of Athena's Thimble, July 2019 to the present
• Guild Member/Forester - East Kingdom Foresters Guild, Spring 2022 to the present
• Local Deputy A&S Minister - Malagentia, May 2021 to the present

Projects & Publications

• Blogs at: https://thornandthread.wordpress.com - 2014 to the present
• Tyger Camp Challenge 2021, The Moonstone, Province of Malagentia Newsletter, March 2021
• Off Plague and Other Miasma with Pomanders, The East Kingdom Gazette, March 2021 (With supplemental article on my blog: of What and How they are Made)
• Chivalry Renewed, The Moonstone, Province of Malagentia Newsletter, November 2018

Classes Taught

• Dying Fiber and Fabric with Acorns, Forest Court of Malagentia Gettogether, (December 2022)
• Part of the Malagentia Scribal Night Teaching Team, November 2021 to November 2022 Malagentia
• Producing Directly Applied Tablet-Woven Edging, Autumn's Inspirations 2018, Malagentia and Great Northeastern War XXXIV (2022)
• Exploring Carmelite Water - Autumn's Inspirations 2018, Malagentia
• Warding Off Plague and Other Miasma With Pomanders - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018), and 12th Night in the Shire of Panther Vale (2023)
• Sew Your Own Hood (Youth) - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018)
• Make a Set of Quoits (Youth) - Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018)

Retaining Experience

• Royal Retainer, the elevation of Audrye Beneyt, 2021

Contributions

• Embroidered cloaks for the Consort's Youth Challenge, July 2021
• War of the Roses Scribal Challenge, Concordia of the Snows, winning blank scroll 2021
• Endewearde/Ravensbridge Largess Challenge, Great Northeastern War XXXIII (2019)
• Hadchester/Endewearde Largess Challenge, Great Northeastern War XXXII (2018)
• East Kingdom Spring Blank Scroll Challenge, 2018
• Fiber goods to the East Kingdom Largess coffers and EK toy box, Spring 2018

Awards

• Typical Category Winner, Artifacts of a Life V (2023)
• Order of the Maunche, 100 Minutes War, November 2021 (Ioannes II and Honig II)
• Gifted a Token of Inspiration by Consul Alberic at the XI Ethereal Court of the Eastern Consules, July 2021 (Tindal & Alberic)
• Order of the Silver Brooch, Crown Tournament of Wilhelm & Vienna, November 2018 (Wilhelm & Vienna)
• Malagentian Provincial A&S Award, Autumn's Inspirations 2018, Malagentia

Interests

Illumination painted by Tiffan, inspired by the Rothschild Prayerbook

• Material Culture
• Scribal Arts (Illumination and calligraphy)
• Plants (Herbal medicine, traditional foods, dyestuffs)
• Fiber Arts (embroidery, garment fabrication, spinning, weaving (especially tablet))
• Leatherworking
• Metal Casting
• Folk Traditions
• Children's Activities
• Medieval History
• Chivalric Romances and Courtly Conduct
• There are so many things I want to learn more about! (Including but not limited to pottery, metalsmithing and enameling, calligraphy, basketry, singing, dance...)

In Case of Court

• Surprises are quite fine, though should a peerage ever come in to question, please use a writ.
• Please speak with Camille des Jardins or Elaria Grenway of Whyccheford in case of court.