RE: [Mid] A&S misunderstandings

You have non-SCA friends? What's that like?

purple :P
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From: owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org
[mailto:owner-sca-middle@midrealm.org]On Behalf Of soloriens@webtv.net
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 8:13 AM
To: sca-middle@midrealm.org
Subject: Re: [Mid] A&S misunderstandings

Lyonnete wrote:
>I think part of it is, we're used
>to our crafts being received
>differently in our regular, modern
> life. Any embriodery is oo-and-
>aah worthy. A hand-made shirt
>will get you impressed gasps. In
>your circle of work-friends you
>might be 'the' seamstress, 'the'
>artist, etc. But enter into the SCA,
>and you're surrounded by a more
>critical audience.

I've actually found the opposite to be true. In the SCA, any bit of
embroidery I wear draws compliments. At court, many scrolls are handed
out, but after court you see big groups gathering around the
newly-awarded gentle, not only to give him congratulations, but to drool
(we hope not literally) over the scroll.

In the 20th century, however, you can go around-- and I have done so--
draped in hand-embroidery, and *nobody notices*! Remember the lady
whose work was crushed by someone who didn't even see that it was
embroidered fabric? I have some of my (non-period) embroidery hanging
on my walls at home. My SCA friends always go over to look at it and
ask questions; my non-SCA friends have never even once commented on any
of it.

I've often thought it should be the other way around, that in the SCA
where everyone does arts, they'd never notice or care that I'm dong them
too, while in everyday life people would be bowled over by my drawing my
own cross-stitch charts or designing my own tatted baby bonnet.
Instead, I get the glazed eyes and "oh, get a life" in modern
situations, while SCA-folk hang open-mouthed on the every word of
someone describing his latest research.

--Elfrida

Ignavi deficere debent.

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