If the above makes no sense to you, you may wish to explore the web sites for the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) and its regional branches. The SCA is an educational and recreational organization focusing on medieval history that got its start in Berkeley, CA in 1966, and now boasts a world wide membership in the tens of thousands.
NEW: "Throwing Clay: Recreating Byzantine and other Medieval Pottery" http://katrous.blogspot.com/
Vigilo et Exspecto
I watch and I wait
Photograph copyright © 2007
Bardulf Rauen (Bill Frazer)
TEXTILES
-Elizabethan Canvaswork
2 NEW
PAGES!
(May '07)
-The
'other' side of
Elizabethan mittens
-A Preliminary Survey of 16th Century English Literary
References to Knitting
-Overview of Period Dyes
ELIZABETHAN Miscellaneous
-Some less familiar
Elizabethan names
- Colorful quill pens
-
Living History demo,
held 11/13-14/2004 at Roanoke Festival Park
-
Item: A Payre of Beads, Or, What not to call a Rosary
GLASS (lampworking)
-Making
Glass Beads,
including handouts from glass related classes taught by Lady Kateryn
and pictures of her work
OTHER
-
A&S 50 Challenge
-
Pentathlon in Persona,
March 2005 and
March 2006
- Dye recipes for wood
-
Aiming High in A&S,
including suggestions for constructing
effective documentation & finding source materials