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- Fri Oct 09, 2009 7:03 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Now this is quite a setting for a Coronation!
- Replies: 20
- Views: 775
- Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:08 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Period Furniture Plans?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 510
Like this?
Medieval furniture: plans and instructions for historical reproductions
By Daniel Diehl
http://books.google.com/books?id=-TYISz ... q=&f=false
Careful. Always do a mockup in cheap lumber (or at least cardboard). Some of his plans have mistakes in them (notably the Glastonbury chair).
Medieval furniture: plans and instructions for historical reproductions
By Daniel Diehl
http://books.google.com/books?id=-TYISz ... q=&f=false
Careful. Always do a mockup in cheap lumber (or at least cardboard). Some of his plans have mistakes in them (notably the Glastonbury chair).
- Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:49 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Effigies & Brasses database & image collection
- Replies: 133
- Views: 3488
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 2:02 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Suggestions on Fabrics
- Replies: 12
- Views: 360
Blaine de Navarre wrote:My understanding is that no distinction was made in period between hemp linen and flax linen; which one you got depended on which one was grown more locally.
That sounds about right. I wonder if they dye differently?
So for our purposes, when shopping you can get away with either.
- Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:32 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Suggestions on Fabrics
- Replies: 12
- Views: 360
Don't forget hemp! (Depending on time and place - I admit, I'm not fully versed on where and when for hemp.) I just picked up some gorgeous herringbone twill help for an arming cote for Jeff: m Hemp has a lot of the properties of linen. I've not used it much, so I couldn't enumerate the differences,...
- Tue Sep 15, 2009 7:23 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Effigies & Brasses database & image collection
- Replies: 133
- Views: 3488
Ah, I see! Now I understand the relative lack of women. I do hope that you put those up eventually. It might not be the focus of your research, but it seems essential to a complete online effigies and brasses database, don't you think? Perhaps you could find somebody with interest in the subject to ...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:49 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Effigies & Brasses database & image collection
- Replies: 133
- Views: 3488
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:48 pm
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Effigies & Brasses database & image collection
- Replies: 133
- Views: 3488
Wow, this is great! I actually hopped onto it tonight to help put together a class. First thought for other searches - the ability to sort by effigies by sex. Is it a man, woman, or an effigy of a couple? You could have -All effigies with men -All effigies with women -All effigies with children As I...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:40 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A prototype for a modern "girdle book"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 340
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:26 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A prototype for a modern "girdle book"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 340
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 2:07 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Finished plaque belt.
- Replies: 33
- Views: 605
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:54 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A prototype for a modern "girdle book"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 340
I like that you’re making some that are usable pieces. I think that the more of these we see, the more the general look of the SCA will be improved. It’s an improvement to have good looking examples, that people are willing to carry around to take notes, etc. Woo! This one, I’m afraid to touch...
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:45 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Babywearing in Period
- Replies: 5
- Views: 258
- Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:29 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: A prototype for a modern "girdle book"
- Replies: 15
- Views: 340
A beautiful modern example of a properly bound book:
http://www.aneira.org/char_girdle_book.html
Not that I'm biased, or anything.
http://www.aneira.org/char_girdle_book.html
Not that I'm biased, or anything.
- Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:54 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Babywearing in Period
- Replies: 5
- Views: 258
Do you swaddle? I don't know how old she is, but a swaddled baby is just about the coolest looking thing ever. Both our boys were swaddled, and then we also carried them in a wrap at events. As they got older and I got more confident, I started just knotting a hunk of linen for a sling. Unlike a May...
- Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:31 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Medieval Timeline Event in Delaware County PA
- Replies: 27
- Views: 474
- Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:28 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Women's Aprons
- Replies: 5
- Views: 148
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 1:00 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 14th century encampment at Pennsic 39?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1862
I am vaguely in the rectangular mood with slant walls and a ridge line, but with a variety of finicky adjustments. After camping in a round at Pennsic, I'm not really sold on the layout options inside. After Pennsic with four people in a 14' round, I have to agree. There was enough space, per se, i...
- Wed Sep 09, 2009 9:28 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 14th century encampment at Pennsic 39?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1862
Jeff and I have been talking about making one for about five years now... We bought the industrial sewing machine for it and everything, but then we had kids instead. We were pretty hot to do it again right after Pennsic, but of course other projects have cropped up since then. What style are you co...
- Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:56 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 14th century encampment at Pennsic 39?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1862
It's easier than you think. You need clothes, right? But what else can you leave at home? If you have a tent, what can you leave in your tent? What can you live without? This is difficult to do at an event like Pennsic, but you can start practicing with day trips. What do you absolutely need? If yo...
- Wed Sep 02, 2009 12:01 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Need advice- 15th C. Western European men's garb
- Replies: 8
- Views: 292
Check out the Grey's Clothing standards for a nice overview:
http://www.replications.com/greys/standards.htm
http://www.replications.com/greys/standards.htm
- Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:59 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 14th century encampment at Pennsic 39?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1862
Manditory items to camp for the first year would include, A period style tent and 14th century garb. no modern looking chairs, coolers, lighting visable outside personal tents. No display of blatently non 14th century items. Edward My point precisely, if those are the standards for the FIRST YEAR t...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:21 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: New clothes: what are you making?
- Replies: 294
- Views: 7128
I did the same thing. My sister was in the SCA, and some friends of hers were getting married at the Minnesota Ren Fest. I figured I'd make an outfit, and then join the SCA afterwards. I made an angel wing tunic and wore it with a veil. I was too oblivious to know the difference even when I was ther...
- Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:01 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: New clothes: what are you making?
- Replies: 294
- Views: 7128
I have a pdf with the description included. I reference the festive attyre link, because it's the best out there to describe the spiral lacing hole arrangement itself.
I also include a bit on how to start it and tie it off:
http://www.mathildegirlgenius.com/Docum ... Lacing.pdf
I also include a bit on how to start it and tie it off:
http://www.mathildegirlgenius.com/Docum ... Lacing.pdf
- Sat Aug 22, 2009 9:24 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cord for arming points?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 631
- Sat Aug 22, 2009 12:46 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cord for arming points?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 631
- Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:55 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Cord for arming points?
- Replies: 32
- Views: 631
Isabella, Considering that everybody is out of stock, I feel ok suggesting that you make your own. I posted instructions for making the chapes (metal ends) in a previous post a while ago: m Scroll through the entire post, and there are a lot of good suggestions for how to make the chape. Also, a lot...
- Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:44 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pennsic Panic Projects - what did you get done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 567
@Leo: That is awesome. I've seen somebody working on checky before, and I know it's not an easy task at all! @Johann: He'll have the cast off in a couple of weeks. He broke the arm a week before Pennsic. I was a bit panicked figuring out what he could and couldn't wear, and how to bathe him easily w...
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:16 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: men's 14th century head coverings?
- Replies: 35
- Views: 826
What sorts of headwear are you interested in? (What sort of impression are you trying to do?) Something appropriate to your typical SCA nobleman circa 1370. Are these all appropriate to 1370?: m Looks like I could wear a Robin Hood hat! http://www.maisonstclaire.org/resources/skin_out/menswear/comm...
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 8:50 am
- Forum: Historical Research
- Topic: Bernard Cornwall's 'Agincourt' To Be Adapted
- Replies: 27
- Views: 691
- Tue Aug 18, 2009 6:52 am
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: 14th century encampment at Pennsic 39?
- Replies: 57
- Views: 1862
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 10:25 pm
- Forum: Medieval Combat and Weapons
- Topic: SCA and the Tool of Oppression (horse)
- Replies: 235
- Views: 3667
1. Everyone is presumed to be minor nobility when they join the SCA. We're straying from the original topic here, but I have to ask... Is that really the case? That's too bad, really, because if it's true then 1. The all the wonderful people studying various arts and trades of the Middle Ages/Renai...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:55 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pennsic Panic Projects - what did you get done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 567
My projects were modest due to other demands on my time. Getting a 'free' rope bed to work right was my before Pennsic project. It worked, sort of, so I have gotten rid of it. I finished a brand new shower for my encampment making the Ladies happy. Any project that makes the Ladies happy is worthwh...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pennsic Panic Projects - what did you get done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 567
Yep...will be gold leaf and leather. What people don't know is my wife made that chequey fabric square by square. It's hand done, each square is sewed to the next, the roses and lions are embroidered on, and the whole thing is almost period 100%. The lining is not all silk and the thread in the ros...
- Fri Aug 14, 2009 9:07 pm
- Forum: Interpretive Re-creation
- Topic: Pennsic Panic Projects - what did you get done?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 567
Pennsic Panic Projects - what did you get done?
So, before Pennsic we were all discussing stuff that we were working madly on to finish. What did folks complete? I was mostly trying to crank out kid clothes, pilgrims scrips for the family, and one new summery dress for myself. For the boys, I completed 3 linen G-63s. Naturally, they only wore one...