{"id":2509,"date":"2009-03-23T07:21:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2009-10-07T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T15:52:44","slug":"medieval-token-of-affection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2509","title":{"rendered":"Medieval &#8220;Token of Affection&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/token-300x42.jpg\" alt=\"Token\" title=\"Token\" width=\"300\" height=\"42\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2855\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/token-300x42.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/token-150x21.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/token-1024x143.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/token.jpg 1040w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In days of yore (before indoor plumbing), it was common for a lady to give her knight a token of affection to carry into battle.  You can do something similar whether or not your beloved heads off to work every morning toting a broadsword.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?page_id=4686\">tutorial<\/a> for making a simple cross-stitched bracelet that you can personalize to your heart&#8217;s content.<\/p>\n<p>This is an easy and romantic gift, and would also be an excellent item to give to groomsmen\/bridesmaids for a medieval wedding.<\/p>\n<p>(Incidentally, my workshop is beginning to get cluttered with prototypes, so I&#8217;m selling a few of the items I&#8217;ve made for tutorials in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/store\/home.php?cat=274\">One-of-a-Kind<\/a> section of the store.  If you don&#8217;t want to Doom It Yourself, you can buy it cheap.  The bracelet shown above is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/store\/product.php?productid=16262&#038;cat=274&#038;page=1\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In days of yore (before indoor plumbing), it was common for a lady to give her knight a token of affection to carry into battle. You can do something similar whether or not your beloved heads off to work every morning toting a broadsword. I&#8217;ve put together a tutorial for making a simple cross-stitched bracelet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4689,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/4689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}