Novice Dress

2009-01-18T14:36:42Z

Ismene Gillandred: /* Fabric and Bands of Color */

== Introduction ==

The Tailor's Guild of Tarvalon.net has done extensive research on what we believe to be the correct design the Novice's and Accepted's dress should take, should one decide to make this costume. Special thanks go to Madelaine Vitalia Sedai, Muirenn Lina Alianin Sedai, Elairelle Mandellon Sedai, and Ebona din Casei Sedai for their wealth of knowledge in this area.

The base fabric for the costume was probably a very fine quality of pure white wool. There has been some speculation that this could have been a natural wool color, but the consensus is that the Tower would have wanted to use the best available fabrics for their initiates and white wool would have been much more expensive, due to the processes that would be required to attain this color.

The dress was exactly the same for the Novice and the Accepted dress with the exception that the Accepted dress had the colors of all the Ajahs added to the hem of the garment. This is the link to the McCall's Pattern Company site. We believe the pattern with the slim sleeves is the one that would be appropriate. We also believe that the neckline would have been the modest jewel neckline. The bottom of the sleeves can be modified to a slightly looser fit in order to allow the sleeves to be pushed up out of the way for heavy chores.

http://www.mccallpattern.com/item/M4490.htm?tab=costumes&page=4

== Fabric and Bands of Color ==

The fabric the Tailor's Guild recommends is a pure white cotton. Linen or wool may be used for authenticity if preferred, but cotton will do just as nicely. Just be sure it is a good quality.

For the bands of color on the Accepted Dress, we suggest using bias bands of each color in the same type of fabric as the dress. The bands of color will need to be in this order:

Blue

Green

Yellow

Red

White

Gray

Brown

In other words, brown will be at the bottom of the hem and blue will be at the top of the bands of color.

== Instructions ==

Here are the instructions:

Step 1

Cut a 1/2 yd length of fabric. Mark one end.

Step 2

Cut along the diagonal line, removing the triangle on the end. Pin this triangle to the opposite end of the fabric. Sew with a quarter-inch seam.

Step 3

Using the left side diagonal as a guide, make diagonal lines all down the length of the fabric. They should be spaced as wide as you want the strip plus seam allowance. I've spaced the ones for Kitan's dress at 3 inches wide so I have plenty of space for seam allowances.

Step 4

Bring the bottom edge up to the top edge and match the cutting lines. Offset these by the width of each strip.

Sew with a quarter-inch seam. Don't be concerned if the fabric bunches up when you try to match the lines... it will work out in the end.

Step 5

Start at one end, cut along the cutting lines in one continuous line. This will form one long strip.

Now you have your strips! Repeat for each of the Ajah colors. Sew the strips together in the proper order, and there's your band.

Sincere thanks to Maddie Sedai for her instructions regarding the banding for the Accepted's dress.

An alternative to this technique would be to use a light weight ribbon in each of the Ajah colors and sew them to the hem of the garment. We suggest the bias strips if possible because it can sometimes be difficult to find the correct colors in ribbon and ribbon tends to be more expensive overall. Also, the bias banding will more easily curve to fit the hemline of the dress. However, if you have a good supplier for ribbon and you want to avoid the process for creating the bias strips, this is a viable option.

== Symbology ==

As for why the dresses were white? There are a number of things that add up to a combination of practical and symbolic reasons. I am going to make this part simple. Maddie Sedai explains it much better than I could. So I am just going to add her explanations here:

Practical Reasons

One of the things the Aes Sedai were trying to do with Novices and Accepted was to build their bodies as well as their minds. An Aes Sedai of the greatest channeling ability is useless if her body isn't strong enough to support channeling large amounts of saidar for long periods of time. Channeling is work - it tires the body as much as if the channeler had been doing physical labor.

By requiring they wear white, the Tower ensured that these ladies would have to regularly engage in the very physical task of keeping their clothes white. They would also need to learn to be careful and neat if they wanted to reduce how much time they spent doing laundry chores.

On the flip side, even though white is physically hard to maintain it avoids problems associated with dyed cloth. Most natural dyes can not stand up to the rigors of washing and exposure to sunlight. They quickly fade and the article must be redyed to restore the color. In medieval times, this is partly why everyone wore a white undergarment under everything. The undergarment protected the outer clothing from body soils - which meant the outer garments generally only needed to be "spot cleaned" if the person was careful since they weren't directly touching the wearer's skin.

Wearing white is also practical in that a Novice or Accepted is instantly recognizable in almost any setting. It would be hard for a white-clad Novice to hide herself in a crowd or to sneak away at night without covering up her clothes with a dark cloak.

Symbolic Reasons

Wearing white also has symbolic meaning. The most common is purity - Novices and Accepted are expected to be pure of heart, mind and body. To Randlanders, it may have indicated that Novices and Accepted are followers of the Creator's Light.

White would also have brought everyone down to the same level and indicated that they belonged to the White Tower. Whatever connections they had before entering the Tower are gone, regardless of whether they are the lowest commoner or the highest noble. Clothing often used color to show a person's connections or regional identity - having everyone wear white repeatedly impresses on the young women that their connection to the White Tower overrides any other connections they may have had.

The addition of the bands to the Accepted dress is more a matter of showing rank than anything else. A Novice is supposed to spend her time learning and building herself for the good of the entire White Tower. She isn't supposed to be focusing her loyalty on a specific Ajah because she doesn't know enough about herself or them to even start making that choice.

Once she has been Raised to the Ring, it is expected that she now understands herself more than she ever did before. She knows what she is capable of and is ready to start considering what Ajah she wishes to join.

The white dress indicates that she is still of the White Tower, while the bands show that she is ready to consider a second connection - to one of the Ajahs. The combination of mostly white with some color shows that the Ajahs are part of the whole - that a future Aes Sedai's loyalty to the Tower is supposed to overrule her loyalty to her Ajah.

I want to express again, my many thanks to the members of the Tailor's Guild for their guidance and knowledge in this project. I hope that this will allow the Novices and Accepted of TarValon to have a more unified appearance at live events.

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2009-01-18T14:33:29Z

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2009-01-13T08:24:13Z

Ismene Gillandred:

''Lyrics by Eleyan al'Landerin''

To a tavern down in Caemlyn, a maid came in one night

With her hair all made of sunlight and her big eyes burning bright

She ordered up a beer, undid her cloak and let it fall

And that's when she strode right on up and said this to us all:

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

We were speechless for a moment. 'Twas a strange sight for to see:

So lovely a young maiden as brazen as she

She wiggled her sweet hips and then she showed a little thigh

Then every man stood all as one to try and catch her eye.

The first to get attention was a man from Tar Valon

With his dashing good looks, he knew he just couldn't go wrong

He'd had plenty of ladies, far more than he could count

Pick me, cried the man, and I'll show you Dragonmount.

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

The next to come on forward hailed from far-off Cairhien

Which we all know does not provide the tallest of men

Young lady, he said, please invite me to stay

And we'll play games within your house until the break of day.

Then stood up a man who had just come from Ebou Dar

He'd been long on the road and he had traveled very far

My beauty, he said, why don't you pick me

And I'll show you just how good an old seaman can be.

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

Oh, dear me! said the lady. I cannot pick just one

I'd feel far too pick and it'd ruin all my fun

So I'll follow my heart, for it's clear and all can see

There's no other decision, so I'm gonna take all three!

But standing in the back, a man from Amador for sure

Wearing clothes of white, looking righteous and pure

Young woman, he said, you will surely go to hell

But if that is where you're going, then I'm going there as well!

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

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A Lugard Girl Came to Town (song)

2009-01-13T08:21:03Z

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A Lugard Girl Came to Town (song)

2009-01-13T08:20:38Z

Ismene Gillandred: New page: '''A LUGARD GIRL CAME TO TOWN''' ''Lyrics by Eleyan al'Landerin'' To a tavern down in Caemlyn, a maid came in one night With her hair all made of sunlight and her big eyes burning bri...

'''A LUGARD GIRL CAME TO TOWN'''

''Lyrics by Eleyan al'Landerin''

To a tavern down in Caemlyn, a maid came in one night

With her hair all made of sunlight and her big eyes burning bright

She ordered up a beer, undid her cloak and let it fall

And that's when she strode right on up and said this to us all:

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

We were speechless for a moment. 'Twas a strange sight for to see:

So lovely a young maiden as brazen as she

She wiggled her sweet hips and then she showed a little thigh

Then every man stood all as one to try and catch her eye.

The first to get attention was a man from Tar Valon

With his dashing good looks, he knew he just couldn't go wrong

He'd had plenty of ladies, far more than he could count

Pick me, cried the man, and I'll show you Dragonmount.

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

The next to come on forward hailed from far-off Cairhien

Which we all know does not provide the tallest of men

Young lady, he said, please invite me to stay

And we'll play games within your house until the break of day.

Then stood up a man who had just come from Ebou Dar

He'd been long on the road and he had traveled very far

My beauty, he said, why don't you pick me

And I'll show you just how good an old seaman can be.

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

Oh, dear me! said the lady. I cannot pick just one

I'd feel far too pick and it'd ruin all my fun

So I'll follow my heart, for it's clear and all can see

There's no other decision, so I'm gonna take all three!

But standing in the back, a man from Amador for sure

Wearing clothes of white, looking righteous and pure

Young woman, he said, you will surely go to hell

But if that is where you're going, then I'm going there as well!

Oh, I've just come in from Lugard town in fairest Murandy

I like where I've been and I'm liking what I see

But I've come here for a purpose now as quickly as I can:

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

I've come down here to Caemlyn to find me a good man.

Emond's Field (Song)

2009-01-13T08:18:40Z

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;<big>Shenandoah Rewrite</big> 
''Author: Kitan Tataru''

Oh, Emond's Field, I long to see you

Away, oh my Two Rivers.

Oh, Emond's Field, I long to see you.

Away, I'm bound away

I'm tied to the Pattern.

I long to see your village green

And hear your rolling Winespring.

I long to see your village green.

Away, I'm bound away

I'm tied to the Pattern.

Away, I'm bound away

I'm tied to the Pattern.

Oh, Emond's Field.

Oh, Emond's Field.

Oh, Emond's Field.

Click [http://the-muses.net/library/emondsfield.mp3 here] to hear the music!

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Brandon Sanderson

2009-01-13T08:15:11Z

Ismene Gillandred: New page: Brandon Sanderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on December 19th, 1975. Brandon took pleasure in reading as a child; however, he found himself quickly growing bored and losing interest in ...

Brandon Sanderson was born in Lincoln, Nebraska on December 19th, 1975. Brandon took pleasure in reading as a child; however, he found himself quickly growing bored and losing interest in the books that had been suggested for him to read. His boredom grew and by his early teens he rarely read at all. This all changed when as an 8th grade student a teacher handed him a copy of Barbara Hambly’s ‘Dragonsbane’. This was his first introduction to the world of fantasy and Brandon quickly became engrossed in any fantasy epic he could find. His love of fantasy continued throughout grade school as he discovered authors such as Melanie Rawn, Anne McCaffrey and Robert Jordan.

Brandon enrolled at Brigham Young University in 1994; majoring in Biochemistry. He spent two years (1995-1997) in Seoul, Korea as a missionary from the Mormon Church. It was during this time period that Brandon truly discovered his love for writing and upon his return to campus he changed his major from Biochemistry to English. Soon after Brandon began writing at night while working as a desk clerk at a local hotel. This job, while helping to pay his tuition, also afforded him an opportunity to write as much as he liked during night shifts. All told Brandon completed seven novels while a student at BYU. He submitted many of these for publication and despite repeated rejections, Brandon stayed true to his dream.
While pursuing a graduate degree from BYU, Brandon spent time volunteering for the university’s Sci Fi/Fantasy magazine ‘The Leading Edge’. Brandon worked as Editor-in-Chief; reading numerous article submissions. He also began learning about the business side of writing; taking a class from the author of the ‘Runelords’ series David Farland. While continuing to work toward his graduate degree, Brandon received a call in 2003 from an editor who wanted to purchase a book that Brandon had submitted a year and half earlier.
Brandon graduated with his Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Brigham Young University in 2005. Subsequently, he was asked to teach the creative writing class focusing on science fiction and fantasy that David Farland had taught while Brandon was a student. He still teaches this class due to his love of helping aspiring writers. By May of that same year Brandon’s first novel ‘Elantris’ was in book stores and his publishers TOR had also released his ‘Mistborn’ trilogy.

Brandon was married in July 2006 to Emily Bushman. Brandon and Emily knew many of the same people in college, but didn’t meet until a mutual friend introduced them in 2005. Emily spent time as a teacher, but now works from home as Brandon’s business manager and mother to their son Joel, who was born in October 2007.

After the passing of one of his favorite fantasy authors Robert Jordan, Brandon was chosen to complete the ‘Wheel of Time’ series. Brandon will pen ‘A Memory of Light’, which is scheduled to be released in Fall of 2009.

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Robert Jordan Bio

2009-01-13T08:13:01Z

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Robert Jordan was the penname of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. who was born on October 17, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He had an older brother who was 12 years older than him, and begun his education at an early age. His parents often left him in the care of his older brother, who read young James many books, which may have inspired his love for literature. He taught himself to read by 4 years old, and was reading classics such as Mark Twain by 5. Rigney served two tours in Vietnam (1968-1970) as a helicopter gunner, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with palm. Returning from Vietnam, he attended The Citadel and received an undergraduate degree in physics. After graduating, James was hired by the United States Navy as a nuclear engineer, and started writing in 1977. He had many hobbies, which included history, hunting, fishing, sailing, poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He described himself as a “High Church Episcopalian” and often received communion more than once a week. He married Harriet McDougal, who currently works as a book editor and who was also Jordan’s editor. In 2006, he was diagnosed with cardiac amyloidosis, and was given 4 years to live. In early April of 2006, he began chemotherapy treatments in Minnesota, but unfortunately, did not beat the odds. James Oliver Rigney Jr., beloved author of The Wheel of Time series, died on September 16, 2007.

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2008-11-04T22:15:11Z

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For a full list of Administrators and Staff in the Department of Community Development, see [[Department of Community Development (Positions)]].

'''Artisan's Guild'''

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