Melissa Wijffels

Personal Information

Primary time/area of interest: 600-800AD Frisia, but you will also find me digging around any number of geographical regions before 1200AD, including classical antiquity (for the agricultural treatises), as well as Tang Dynasty and earlier China.

Current projects: Time to manufacture textiles from scratch, linen cloth from seed, diamond twill from raw fleece, replica Frisian, Anglo-Saxon and Nordic pottery, replica beads from Frisia, translation of Chinese cookbooks

Major fields: 

Research, early-period lifestyle (weaving, pottery, glass beads, fire cooking, agriculture)

Elevation: 

Elevated at Spring Camp on 24 October 2026 from King Aonghus II and Queen Ginevra II

Current interests: 

Agriculture, textile production (incl. natural dying), fire cooking, wood carving, open-fired earthenware pottery, glass beads

Current group: 

Cluain

Or, a raven and a bordure azure

Current level of activity: 

Active

Website: 

Melissa Wijffels, Craftsperson