*After announcing the three champions that will compete in the triwizard tournament, Dumbledore grabs a fourth paper that just came out of the goblet of fire*
Here it is! The instructions to make a pieced and quilted plague doctor mask!
Just as a heads up, this pattern is not really recommended for beginners. There is not a whole lot of explanation of the basic techniques, and it requires a fair bit of precision, two types of fusible interfacing, and an assumption that you can keep a consistent seam allowance and do some hand sewing and know when to sew things right sides together and such.
I am not promising anything, different methods will yield different results, I have never made a pattern exactly as it was written and neither should you. If you want something the same as the next person, go to the shops.
Actually, nevermind, this is a quarantine craft, stay home.
That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
You’re thinking that we have done this already. We have but this post will go more in depth into the different Archetypes revolving around the Mistress. So a mistress is the woman who the king/prince/gentleman dates outside the bounds of marriage. To see get more into their occupations look at my Fantasy Guide on them.
We are usually given four to five common mistresses in fiction. They are the:
The Commoner
The Schemer
The Good Mistresss
The Pawn
The Commoner
This Archetype is usually used as a story in itself, coming from the character’s view. The commoner mistress usually has a Cinderella lifestyle. She is found by a prince or king and brought to court in the gutter, dressed in the finest clothes and expensive jewels. But this archetype usually gets darker in fantasy and history. Commoners are always commoners, never mind what they are dressed in or who loves them.
They are usually the best loved by their lovers yet most reviled at court. Their characters are usually wide-eyed idealists and they can usually stronger than they look. Remember though, that the world will never accept them. They will be condemned as whores and gold-diggers.
Some Historical examples are:
Maria Fitzherbert: The Mistress of George IV. When she refused to sleep with him, he sent her suicide notes. Eventually she agreed but only if they got married. This was illegal since she was Catholic and divorced so the marriage was annulled. She was his first love and he wrote in his will that when he died everything would be left to her while leaving a shilling to his wife Queen Caroline.
Madame Jeanne du Barry: Mistress of Louis XV. Du Barry was a Parisian prostitute who caught the eye of the king. She was brought to court and dressed in the best clothes and jewels. She was reviled and hated even after her king died. She was killed by guillotine in the French revolution. Many forget that her first act of being Mistress was a mercy mission.
Nell Gwyn: Mistress of Charles II. She was said to be the child of a prostitute who worked on the London stages as a beloved actress and also sold oranges. The king loved her dearly evening begging his brother on his deathbed to not let her be forgotten. Nell was loved by the populace, at one point joking when they tried to kill her thinking her to be some else. “Good people, you are mistaken; I am the Protestant whore.”
Elizabeth/Jane Shore: The Mistress of Edward IV. The daughter of a merchant, she caught the eye of the king. She survived being discarded and shared same amounts of the love he gave his wife. After he died, she continued to support his family, carrying messages in a rebellion against Richard III. She was caught and made walk through the streets in her kirtle.
The Good Mistress
This archetype usually is mixed with the commoner. She loves the king and the kingdom, eve approved by the families of the king.
Diane de Poitiers: Diane was the mistress of Henri II. She was 20 years older than him and his tutor but he loved her more any one. It was up to Diane that there were total children since she sent Henri to bed his wife. She was his councillor, signing documents on his behalf with “HenriDiane”
Maria Walewska: Mistress of Napoleon. She was plagued with his demands and entreaties to become his mistress and would not agree until he offered to be kind to Poland. He left her when she was pregnant. When he was exiled, she offered to come to him but he refused.
Madame de Pompadour: Mistress of Louis XV. She was his most beloved and was even approved of by the Queen. After medical complications, she could no longer be the king but she became his advisor and best friend. She was politically active mostly in the Alliance of the Three Petticoats.
The Schemer
This archetype uses her king as a step ladder to wealth, power and station. She may or may not love her king but she is formidable. She will be hated and often have a backing. The Schemer is usually aristocratic and dangerous. They have calculated their seductions.
Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt. She was a politically astute woman who saw Rome as a power worth allying with. She became Caesar’s lover whilst facing civil war with her Brother-Husband. By seducing him, she saved Egypt from becoming a province of Rome for a few more years. To hold power, she seduced Marc Anthony. This was a mistake.
Anne Boleyn: Anne was the perfect Renaissance woman; learned, clever, politically sound. She was at the focal point of the Reformation when Henry VIII turned England upside down to marry her. Anne was a player in the great game and managed to secure herself a throne, though it gave her little happiness.
The Pawn
This archetype is when the mistress is made to capture and hold a king. Her family will push her into the King’s bed in hopes that her position will get them power. Anne Boleyn could be one of these but it is more accepted that she was a Schemer rather than a pawn.
Katherine Howard: Katherine was the fifth wife of Henry VIII. Young and pretty, she caught the eye of Henry VIII after he married his fourth wife Anne of Cleves. Her uncle, the Duke of Norfolk schooled her to keep the king and eventually succeeded in getting his second niece on the throne.
Jane Seymour: Henry’s third wife. She is thought to have been pushed into Henry’s sight by her ambitious brothers and father. It is doubted how much she was involved in this plans or if she approved of it. Again, she may have been a schemer but perhaps I am biased. Jane is my least favourite wife of Henry VIII. Frankly, I think the whole butter-wouldn’t-melt act was fake. Bitch.