Costume Classroom: Instructor: Franchesca Havas's Bio

Instructor Profile:
Franchesca Havas

Bio:
Franchesca Vecchio Havas, mother of 3, wife of one, cat friend to one, and tolerant caretaker of many fish. My first article on gloves was published in 1987 in a SCA newsletter called the It Cometh in the Mail for the Austin branch of the SCA. My second article was published in the SCA newsletter called The SteppesLetter in Dallas in 1995. My third article was published in the Spring 2001 SCA publication called the Tournaments Illuminated. In the summer of 2006 my book was finally published in the SCA's Complete Anachronist. It is publication #131. I have been making gloves since I was 5.

Historic Persona Story of Chiara Francesca Arianna d'Onofrio:
Born: A quest of my persona since my birth was of mysterious circumstances. I resided in Italia most of my life.

Franchesca Havas
Historic Glovemaker

Email: Franchesca

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Elizabethan Glove Making: Make your own pair of gloves

I am daughter to Don Giovanni Lorenzo di Montifeora and Countess Drusilla of Northumbria. Raised by Giovanni and his lady wife Philomena, my true mother was not introduced to me until her coronation at which time I became her ward for the duration of the reign. I was elevated to my status as a lady just prior to my knowledge of my birth circumstances. My father raised me with a gentle hand and trained me to read and write so that I would be able to help my future husband from a strong French family with the family shipping business.

I was lost at sea on a trip to England from Italia. I was swept to a shore with the greenest of grasses. My savior was a gentle man by the name of Bruce Ericsson. His eyes were like none I had ever gaze into. They held flames that were deep and sturdy. Time went by and word from my family and husband never came.

Waiting the appropriate number of years as decreed by the church for an annulment, Bruce and I were married. We have grown gray together over the years and have two of our own to raise into the light of the Ansteorran Star. Earlier this year, a. s. xxxiii, we learned that my mother, Drusilla, had passed on to the other side soon after we learned that my father Giovanni had also passed from here to join her at her side. May they smile upon the children of our bloodline and see that all is good. They are forever immortal in them.