Dame Yolande Kesteven

Personal Information

Major fields: 

Clothing, hats, yarn stuff including spinning. Since Laurelling, that's expanded to include narrowwares, netting, knitting, knotting: basically ways of making plants, worm spit and sheep coats into garments

Elevation: 

12th Night 2004

Current apprentices: 

Isabell Winter (journeywoman), Anna von Frieburg, Helia de la Vega, Mikhaila von Dhaun

Current interests: 

Working class clothing, netting, late 16th century aristocratic and middle class English women's dress. (Also keenly reading about, if failing to put that into any practical use, 8th-10th century Baltic and Nordic textiles and material culture. So much cool stuff!)

Current group: 

Rowany

Current level of activity: 

Active