Philippi’s 2026 Pennsic Schedule 

Eyes like Cleopatra

Thursday, July 30th at 3pm, B03 Courtesian’s College

Exploring the rich history between Rome and Egypt through the kohl decorated eyes of Cleo, and her lovers, while practicing kohl application

Cave Artisans World Wide Part One

Friday, July 31st at 11am, Family Point

The history of humanity is documented in rock art around the world, join the class, learning about rock art, then enter a contest in creating your own rock art diorama for awards

Cave Artisans World Wide Part Two

Saturday, August 1st at 11am, Family Point

Rock art projects discussion, completion, and turn in for the rock art contest

The History of Rabbits

Saturday, August 1st at 1pm, University Tent 3

Rabbits from Greece to Britain, and into the SCA! 

A&S Display in the Great Hall

Sunday, August 2nd from 11am to 5pm

See many artisan displays and reel silk from Ohio grown cocoons with Philippi

A&S War Point in the Great Hall

Monday, August 3rd, Open to the Public in the afternoon

Philippi will be volunteering and encourages all to visit the artisan displays

Eyeliner fit for an Egyptian 

Tuesday, August 4th at 12pm, Teen U

 A softer story telling of the Rome and Egypt love story starring Cleopatra as a bold, intuitive Goddess while the class practices kohl eyeliner application 

Pointed White Satin Angora at Cottontail Hill

The Burrow’s Satin Angora Lilac Pearl Wool Color Breeding Program

The Burrow’s Chestnut Collection

from Rabbit to Recreation

An Angora pillow for Lisa

Measuring 16 by 12 inches, this delicate pillow was an inspiration from the book Egyptian Textiles, by Rosalind Hall, detailing in section the textile tomb finds of the Tutankhamun dig by Lord Carter.

The face of the pillow is a leno weave pattern woven using handspun pure Giant Angora lace weight. The leno weave was stitched to a wool diamond weave backing and stuffed with locally sourced wool. The stitching of the pillow played a signicant part in the reconstruction of the textile. The corners are of an unusual nature, folded and quilted down. And specialty stitches, done in silk, run the length of all edges, again a recreation from the details on the tomb find found in the book by Hall.

The pillow was entered in a Wool Skien and Garment competition in 2026.

In the Spring of 2025, I spun, dyed, and wove four yards of Laurel trim for a friend’s elevation. The red is madder dyed pure Giant Angora in a three ply, even as a border trim, the red halo added great depth to the trim. The white yarn is from my Giant Angora and Merino blended roving, a quick spin into a chain ply. The green was the hardest yarn to create, it is pure Angora three ply from the same batch spun as the red, but the dye job is not purely natural. At some point, after much cursing at the spite of woad, I dug out the box of Cushing’s packets of acid dye.

The Laurel Trim pattern, commonly found throughout the SCA, is a beginner friendly “all tablets forwards” type pattern. And my first pure Angora warp, it was excellent on the loom to work with, but I never asked big things of my tension. Angora yarn has no memory, no stretch. The fiber is purely drapery in how it wishes to collapse into a gravity taken heap. The trim was sewn onto a Viking style hood and adorned at the elevation.

Blend: Angora mill blended roving of 80% tort Satin Angora blended with 20% red Mohair. This project took me years, living in my purse as the travel project.

The yarn has a lovely halo effect, courtesy of the many junior satin coats that went into the mill batch of that yarn. Hooked into an infinity scarf, gifted to my mother Christmas of 2024.

Blend of the yarn in the fingerless crochet mittens: 100% Senior Doe Giant Angora spun from the cloud, chain plied, lace weight

In the Spring of 2023, CTH LACE, a big Senior Giant homegrown doe of mine won the Best of the Best at the Great Lakes Fiber Festival. That afternoon, I sheared her on the table after her winnings. The coat weighed in at 1lb and 6ozs. Over the summer, I spun up the coat on my Queen Bee Spinolution, using up nearly all my bobbins in one of the finest lace weights of my spinning career, a 32 wpi single ply.

The mittens were gifted as part of my December 2023 apprenticeship ceremony.