The MOAS Office is pleased to share these introductions to our new King’s and Queen’s Champions of Arts & Sciences, shown in the photo above with Corotica on the left and Ysabel on the right.

King’s Champion: Corotica merkkā Senebelenae (AKA Clovis)

Pronounced: Car-ah-teak-uh merk Sen-eh-bell-ahn-uh
Pronouns: She/Her.

A little about me: heavy fighter (Northern Army 3rd cohort and Running with Scissors), brewer, cook, fisher, forester, artist, squire, middling crafter, garb procrastinator, and equestrian. I reside in the Shire of Mountain Freehold and am a member of Clanne Preachain, a multi Kingdom household and Fir naLeon, a Northern Household.

I normally portray a 1st C BCE or CE member of the Silures tribe in Southern Wales. I bounce between Bronze, Iron Age/Pre-Roman British, and a Romano-Britain Persona. Unless I’m doing a continental Iron Age celt from Hallstatt. Unless I’m doing 13th century. Unless I’m portraying a Hetaira. Maybe eventually I’ll do a Migration-Era Kievan Rus, or Scythian. I’m slowly getting dragged into Landsknechte, which is entirely Sir Zippy’s fault.

I am a member of the East Kingdom Brewers Guild, Known World Courtesans, and East Kingdom Foresters Guild. In the Fosters I have achieved Master Forester and am a member of the Rangers, an Order of Merit in the Guild focused on minimal overland historical camping, primitive camping, bushcraft, and outdoor activities outside of the usual SCA camping events. I am also “Chief Ranger of the Western Marches”, organizing Ranger activities in the Western part of the Kingdom. When I lived in Atlantia, I was a founding member of the Foresters Guild in that Kingdom, and its first Warden.

My great A&S loves in addition to Forestry/outdoor related activities are historical cooking and brewing from prehistory to modern day. I enjoy exploring brewing and cooking throughout the entirety of SCA time periods and the full scope of food in world culture, although the Imperial Roman era has been a focus of mine over the last few years.

To continue service and wordfame to the Easts artists, The Consort’s Champion, Ysabel da Costa and I will be maintaining the Meet the Artist Monday series, implemented by our predecessors Sugawara no Naeme and Pan Jan Janowicz Bogdanski.

I am looking forward to connecting with artists and helping any way I can. Please email me to share with me the things you are working on, the things you are excited about, and if I can help in any way with connecting you to other artists, or with research and documentation.

In honor of the incoming reign, I encourage artists to look into concepts of cultural diffusion: the embracing of ideas and customs from one society to another through migration, trade, or war. Some examples are how Buddhism followed the Silk Road, the adoption of the Greek Humoral system throughout time by multiple cultures, the spread of winemaking from Greece and Egypt into Northern Europe, things like that.

If you wish to contact me please feel free to reach out to me at: 204512@members.eastkingdom.org

My Wiki is: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Corotica_merkka_Senebelenae

Queen’s Champion: Ysabel da Costa, she/her

I’m Ysabel da Costa, and my local group is the Barony of Carolingia. My focus is recreational research on many topics, including early instruments, dance music, military trumpet repertoire, Bengali embroidery, natural dyeing, and more. I enjoy dancing, sewing garb, cooking, and learning about all the fascinating things other people have done and studied. I’m presently Captain of the Waytes of Carolingia (the Baronial dance band) and a member of the Accademia della Danza, the Carolingian Needleworkers’ Guild, and the Keepers of Athena’s Thimble.

Personae: Ysabel da Costa was born at the turn of the 16th-century to a Portuguese Converso family. Like her famous counterpart Dona Gracia Mendes Nasi, Ysabel has sojourned in many cities: Lisbon, Bayonne, Ferrara, and most recently Constantinople. Lilavati Datta is a secondary persona I am developing; she lives in the Hooghli district of 16c Bengal. My husband, who rarely plays, is a Portuguese trader who is usually away at sea. He has taken a second wife on his travels (unbeknownst to Ysabel), so he’s my husband in both of my personas.

I would love to hear about your work, both the things you’ve actually done and projects that are still in the planning stage. I’ll be assisting the Sovereign’s A&S Champion, Corotica merkkā Senebelenae, as she continues the previous Champions’ successful Meet the Artists Monday series on Facebook. In honor of the upcoming reign, I’d particularly like to encourage our study of pre-1600 Asia, and the exchanges of goods and ideas in both directions between Europe and Asia. These exchanges took place throughout the SCA period — there are even a few Dravidian loan words in Biblical Hebrew!

Please email me to talk about your current or potential projects, or if I can be of assistance with research and documentation.

EK Wiki: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/wiki/Ysabel_da_Costa
Web site: https://ysabelsnotebook.wordpress.com
Email: 213116@members.eastkingdom.org

The MOAS office is so excited to announce the date of our Third Online Kingdom A&S Display, Saturday, November 6! To be a part of this next round please submit your information by Sunday, October 31st.

It’s autumn! In period, now would be the time to prepare for the long winter and the closing of activities: canning foods, stockpiling wood, fixing and creating wool garments for warmth. For us, though, now is a season of slow rebirth, as the Society takes its first steps to resume activities after the long pandemic. 

After a long break, it can be hard to resume the old activities that once gave us so much joy. Let’s help each other out! Please share with us a project that you’ve started since a pandemic pause, or something you made during the pandemic to help you get through, or something from before the pandemic that you made and that gives you inspiration to start your A&S once more. Even unfinished projects would be fantastic, if they give you the spark of inspiration that is so necessary to restart after a long break. Remember: displaying your work is not only inspiring for you, but for anyone else who has been struggling to find energy after a very difficult couple of years. 

Just send the following information to moas.display@eastkingdom.org with “Display” as the subject line.

SCA Name:

Barony/local area:

Optional – Link to EK wiki page (please consider including a photo of yourself as well if there is not one on your wiki page so that people can see who you are!):

1-3 photos of your item

A short description (1-3 paragraphs) of your item and its creation

Link(s) to any additional information about your item/art (your blog, hand-outs, google doc with more documentation, etc. – anything that you want to share with people!)

An example could be:

SCA Name: Richard Heyworth

Barony/local area: Carolingia

About My Project:

As the hopes of a pandemic-free summer began to fade with the Delta variant, I lost a lot of my motivation for almost everything, and this included embroidery, a hobby that provides me with a lot of happiness. I needed something to get me back into the groove, and I discovered that a good friend of mine had received her Silver Wheel award earlier this year but had not received a medallion or commemorative item of any kind. It was exactly the motivation I needed to get back into making things – “it wasn’t for me, it was for someone I cared about!” – and now I’m back, making embroidery, feeling that happiness I had been lacking.

The piece itself is some fairly simple goldwork embroidery, using real silver passing thread for both the inner and outer wheels, with Splendor silk couching stitches to hold it down, which I sewed into a brick pattern that I think looks rather pleasant. Once I had the wheels done, I used thicker strands of the silk to create the divisions in the wheels. The spokes were created using silver purl, and the silk thread goes through the middle of the purl, which is a sort of tube of silver, formed by wrapping silver around an inner core, which is then removed (not by me! I just bought the purl ready to use).

The backing fabric is black felt, and I cut out two pieces and sewed them together to hide the stitching in the back. I attached a pin backing to one side so it could be easily worn by the recipient.

The hardest part for me in this project (as you can see) was the ring of pearls. These are important because they provide protection for the silver thread against getting hit by things, but they’re each individually sewn down, and they tend to shove each other out fo the way and produce less than a perfect circle. These are going to take some further practice to get right – a goal for next time.

We hope this example helps! If you have any questions about what to include please reach out to moas.display@eastkingdom.org and I would love to talk about it. Any project you are working on, big or small, new or old, would be more than welcome.

Art brings joy and inspiration, thank you for sharing yours with us all <3

Lord Richard Heyworth, Special Deputy Minister of Arts & Sciences for Online Web Display