I am such a Technogeek

[anysia]

I confess.. I like my techtoys. As much as I enjoy the SCA, Grey Company, and Renaissance, I like my tech toys.

I have been torrenting SURFACE eps and converting them to Divx for handheld, and loading them onto my Voq. It will give me something to do when I am stuck on a bus or waiting in a long line.

aikidomayland has been working on making us some Chinese arrow quivers. He ran into a conundrum with placement of the belt loop. Luckily, I have much experience with assisting SCA fencers (aka wire weenies/swishy pokes) and their epee rigs. They had 3 to 4 thin leather straps to adjust the 'angle of the dangle' so I showed him where to put a strap onto the quivers to correct the problem. It worked beyond expectations.

So, whatcha think? Did he do good job?

Comments

[cloudwatcher.livejournal.com]

Those quivers are very nice.

I"ve always wanted to join SCA, but never was sure exactly how it works.

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

Quite nice looking; I'd like to see the red dragon(?) more clearly. But they're not Chinese, they're Tocharian.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

But they're not Chinese, they're Tocharian.

They are based on Imperial Chinese quiver, which can be seen at http://www.atarn.org

And as requested,and close up of the dragon

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

Mayhaps I should have put a smiley with that. However, I stand my ground (stamps foot several times, in a belligerent fashion, and glowers)

The Tocharians seems to be part of the Scythian/Sakas/Seres/'Bai people' crowd, those nomadic redhaired and blond, ephedra and cannabis using, wearers of tartan cloth and pointy hats, folk of central Asia; often annoying to their neighbors and called barbarians by them. When information on the "blond mummies" was first starting to show up, I mentioned that to an acquaintance who is into Chinese herbalism and history, his Chinese wife, and a Chinese historian. They in effect said "no surprise, the Chinese words related to horse archers and chariot warfare seem to be loan words, and the Scythians were famous for those". The Tocharians, proto-Tocharians, Yuezhi, Pazyryk, or whoever, likely got their words for rice, millet, abacus, and various terms related to urban commerce, from the Chinese.

The Scythian gorytos, in its later incarnations, looks a lot like those quivers. Chinese history seems to indicate that the Chinese picked up horse powered warfare from the annoying barbarians, and then proceeded to drive them far enough away to be less annoying.

So that's why I said 'Tocharian', sort of similar reason that the Liberty Cap is also called a Phrygian cap.

[scottscidmore.livejournal.com]

And the dragon is way cool.

[anysia.livejournal.com]

So you don't have to go searching, here is the direct link

http://www.atarn.org/chinese/quivers/chinese%20quivers.htm

[illiadic.livejournal.com]

most impressive - very cool!