This document contains scanned images and scanned photographs of some items made by members of the Shire of Frosted Hills during the period between February and September 1999. It is a supplement to the kingdom Arts and Sciences report filed by the local Minister of Arts and Sciences (Þóra Sharptooth/Carolyn Priest-Dorman) for that period. As more photographs become available, they will be posted.

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Frosted Hills Photo Gallery

© 1999 Carolyn Priest-Dorman and the artists

This is the bed that Kean Gryffyth made with help from Lord Haraldr Bassi. It is modified from the Gokstad slat bed (circa 900); the uprights are ash and the rest is poplar. The clothing chest at the foot of the bed is "Grandson of Box," from an old shire pattern.

Here is a closeup of one of the posts, showing the mortise work.

This is the Gokstad style slat bed that Lady Ermina de Falaise, Lord Joshua Redhawke, and Lady Ermina's father built. ( Mina learned to hand chisel for those mortises!) It looks funny because two of the posts were sunk 8" deep into the Pennsic earth to compensate for an especially hilly campsite. The mattress was actually dead level!

Here is another shot taken at Pennsic. It's the unfinished shoes made by Lady Ermina de Falaise in the workshop she (along with Lord Joshua Redhawke and Lord Domhnall macFionndhara) took from Baron Damon Argent of Atlantia while at Pennsic 28. The three sets of shoes are mostly finished.

Here is the warp-weighted loom built in the field by Master Dofinn-Hallr Morrisson, Lord Macsen Felinfoel, Lord Haraldr Bassi, and Lord Joshua Redhawke at Pennsic 28. It's based on extant period Icelandic and Greenlandish examples. The hard part was convincing people we actually had documentation for making the cloth beam teardrop-shaped! The loom isn't quite complete in this photo: the heddle rod supports hadn't been driven yet.

These are the reproduction drop spindles Dof has been making. They're based on soapstone drop spindles from Scandinavia, the North Sea isles, Greenland, and Iceland dating from the Migration Age to about the thirteenth century. The whorls (the rock bits) are soapstone and the spindles (the stick bits) are hardwood smoothed with linseed oil.

This page was created on 18 September 1999 and last updated on 9 November 1999.