Radegund is a Frankish lady of lesser nobility, from the village of Lutra (the modern city of Kaiserslautern, German).  She was born around AD 660, at a time when she can enjoy the late fruits of the Roman occupation of Germanica, along with the better parts of life from her ancestors.

The workshop plays host to a variety of Radegund's interests in the arts and sciences, mostly as practiced in her lifetime but with occasional forays into future times. 

Not only is it important to try to create articles that look like they would have been perfectly in place in a 7th C. Frankish home, they should also be practical and usable. 

 One of the other joys of working with (relatively) early period arts and sciences is attempting to use period-appropriate tools and techniques.  While the modernist in her is mindful that some of these can be hazardous (mercury vapors) or impractical (no, she can't cut down a tree with an axe, well, not in a reasonable period of time), there is still great reward in cooking meals over coals gathered from a fire, or watching a mass of greasy wool become yarn fine enough to pass through the eye of a quilter's needle.  Modern technology will be called into play when necessary, but in general she'd rather use the old traditions whenever possible.