500 matching results for "Redswanne":
From Cooking & Food » Mailing Lists
For bakers of all ages and skill, to gather and discuss baking techniques from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. This includes any manner of breads, cakes, or pies baked in an oven or over a fire, and the items that would have been used for baking (pots, pans, ovens, kneading troughs, rotary kerns, etc.). Our discussion need not be limited to European recipes, and can include recipes and techniques from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
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The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle was published as part of the second edition of The Boke of St. Albans in 1496. The Treatyse is the most complete early reference work on fly fishing. The text includes instructio ns on how to make a rod, line, hooks, instructio ns for twelve fly patterns and hints about how to catch the common varieties of British fish.
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The goal is to gather all available information about the Medieval Bestiary and its antecendants, as well as related information on the medieval view of animals in general, both fabulous and real. Aspects of the general topic of animals in the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on the manuscript tradition, particularly of the bestiaries, and mostly in western Europe.
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Good selection of linen fabric.
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Life in Flanders around the year 1302.
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Re-enacts the time around 1193 AD - the time of the Third Crusade.
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Normans of the second half of the 12th century.
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Raymond's Quiet Press is the dream of Sir Raymond the Quiet of the SCA. A provider to living history and historical reenactment groups of Roman, Saxon, Viking, Celtic, and Medieval jewelry brooches, pennanullars, cloak clasps, belt buckles, stiffeners, and tips, spurs, crosses, thor's hammers, pendants, hip belts, helm brasses and drinking horns. Recreations are based on finds from Sutton Hoo, Taplow, Coppergate, Vendel, Museum of London, English, and Scandinavian digs.
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Documentat ion from projects to make paternoste rs in period styles. Includes a table of extant items and images.
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This information is intended for the rooky period shoemaker, and is meant to supplement other instructions available on the Internet. It provides some basic information from the novice point of view.
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Includes links to patterns for garments.
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A kiln built in the caves under Orvieto, used in the 13th-16th centuries.
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Medieval illustrations and portraits of children; clothing worn by children in the 6th-15th centuries.
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A simple approach to effective and well-written documentation based on the physical and analytical procedures which took you from the original source materials and lead you to produce the item for which you are writing documentation.
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Wulfric of Creigull&# 39;s collection of cookery books.
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The game of piquet has been played since at least the end of the 15th century. Gretchen Miller (Margaret MacDuibhshithe) provides instructions for the game.
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Dagonell the Juggler explains the rules of shove groat, a game that dates back to the Vikings.
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A compilation of a number of card games played during the Elizabethan period.
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This website, a collaboration of the Koninklije Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) and Museum Meermanno, features many illustrations from illuminated manuscripts, searchable by subject matter. This can be searched by looking at the highlights of the collection, by subject, or if you know more details about a specific piece, you can search for it too. Amazing stuff here.
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Discusses patterns and variations for 15th century northern European costume.
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From Costume & Clothing » Handsewing
A rough survey of the sorts of stitches found in surviving material, and the purposes they are used for. It is not exhaustive, but simply representative, with examples chosen to illustrate general patterns, rather than to exhaustively document all the times and places each particular stitch is found. Although a great variety of specific combinations and applications are presented, they derive from a relatively small number of basic stitches and sewing strategies.
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From Costume & Clothing » Handsewing
Covers many details of handsewing, including stitches, construction, and textiles.
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Facilitates communication and education among those members of the Society for Creative Anachronism who share a common interest in Indian history and culture.
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L'Orchesographie, by Thoinot Arbeau, is a dance treatise published in France in 1589. It is indispensable to those who are intested in dance of the Renaissance. This is the first multimedia manual combining text, images, and music to describe the dances accurately. (But it is in French.)
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Soper Lane is a group of women who have studied the working lives of 15th century silkwomen. Their website has examples of their work in textiles and ''narrow wares.''
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