Madalena de Orozco

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Winning 2016 Steppes Artisan!
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Registered Name: Madalena de Orozco Resides: "Bjornsgwlad" Status: Active Joined SCA: 2007
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Madelena de Orozco
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Madelena de Orozco

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Offices:

• Local Offices Held
  • 2008 - 2009 Bjornsborg chronicler

• Regional Offices Held
  • 2015 - 2016 Southern Regional Scribe

• Kingdom Offices Held
  • 2009 - 2010 Kingdom Chronicler deputy for newsletter production
  • Prior Deputy kingdom Minister of Children
  • Kingdom Minister of Children, July 2018 - 2020

Persona History:

Madalena de Orozco, Spanish born, accepted a citizenship agreement from the Italian hamlet of Soana in the Duchy of Tuscany. Soana wanted to compete with nearby Orvieto in pottery and maiolica production, so they offered Madalena a monopoly on the region for production of pottery for several royal families and upper level merchants.

Madalena had spent most of her childhood as an apprentice in a lusterware pottery center in Valencia, Spain.

She risked her life to accept the appointment, taking with her the knowledge of lustre and finicky red pigments; she would never sail to Spanish shores again, lest she be tried for treason.

Interests:

Ceramics: Namely maiolica. I also teach how to throw bowls, cups and plates.

Fiber arts: I have worked in all things fiber. "From sheep to shawl," as they say. I've taught classes in dyeing, spindle and wheel spinning, Tablet weaving, rigid heddle, multi-harness looms, embroidery, and sprang. I enjoy knitting in my free time and absolutely love dyeing and spinning.

Notable Contributions or Accomplishments:

• 2013 Elfsea Artisan
• 2014 Kingdom Arts and Sciences - chosen as a Gulf Wars artisan for maiolica plate "Dragon Howling at the Moon"
• 2014 Stargate Artisan
• 2017 Steppes Artisan

Classes Taught

CERAMICS

• How to make a bowl on a potter's wheel
• How to make a plate on a potter's wheel
• Introduction to Maiolica
• Tracing is period: Maiolica patterns and pouncing
• Maiolica history, from Iraq to Spain and beyond
• How to make a period paint brush
• How to make ceramic insignia with Maiolica techniques

FIBER ARTS

• Introduction to tablet weaving
• Introduction to spinning in the hand
• Five basic embroidery stitches
• Introduction to bobbin lace
• How to make a Viking Tunic, using Maestari Haraldr's pattern

JEWELRY

• Introduction to jewelry sawing
• Soldering 101: make a sterling silver bracelet
• How to make a sterling silver ring
• How to polish your sterling silver ring by hand

WORKSHOP

• wool scouring
• Save that pee! Cleaning wool: fermenting sheep urine to create the perfect blue dye
• why we card wool
• Kitchen Dyeing: How not to corrupt your pots!
• I have the blues: Indigo vat dyeing
• Roll it on the log! How fabric yardage was dyed in period
• Let's dye: making colors from period sources, barks and bugs oh my!
• Fermentation vats, Indigo over time