One Lady's take on a couple of tendencies in the SCA she's seen that distress her.  I don't think all of these necessarily apply to Calontiri, but it couldn't hurt to read this and think about it.
 
http://textiletimetravels.org/2012/01/20/sometimes-we-forget/
 
~Melisende 

 

 

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Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before. 

 

~Jacob A. Riis