A toybox filled with blocks, animals, and felted balls always travels with us to events.
I have really enjoyed making toys for our sons and friends to use at events.
A toybox filled with blocks, animals, and felted balls always
travels with us to events.
A 2005 project was the ark, with dozens of detailed animal pairs. It was inspired
by a 1350 manuscript, as documented in my 2005 Pentathlon documentation.
I have researched simple period toys intended for easy
mass production for gift baskets, particularly for the Crown to give to
children during court. I have taught classes at the Barony and Kingdom
and Pennsic level. These classes have
produced substantial quantities of fun toys (pictured items are some of
the collected work of the class participants).
These girdle books and scribes boxes were created to serve as quiet
entertainment during court.
These dolls are based on a doll called the "Bishop of Baffin" which I
saw at the Minneapolis Science Museum as part of the Smithsonian's
traveling Viking exhibit.
Toys are not always played with the way they were designed.
These cloth dolls (or action figures) were inspired by
illuminated bestiaries.
For my children, two of the more popular toys have been these
pilgrim's bags & shuttle cocks.
Updated February 21,2010
Contact me at Pellison@galtham.org