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Official Sites
The official Society website.
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Personal Sites
The Sea Griffon is a ship chartered by Lady Griffon, captained by Don Silvain Luneau, and is part of the Barony of Wyvernwoode.
Duke Gaston's website
Home of Lady Juliana Foxcroft and Lord Elkanah Macdonald of Arden.
Official website for Arch-Duke Baldar's household and affiliates.
Home of Simon Maurus of Oldenfeld.
Arts & Sciences
Calligraphy & Illumination
Over 100 miniatures from the Codex Manesse.
Digital facsimiles of complete manuscripts, scanned directly from the originals.
Award Scrolls, Scrolls Texts, Illumination Lessons, Maiolica Lessons, and Maiolica Galleries. Step-by-step lessons with photos.
Step by step with pictures
Taught at University of Atlantia Session #53
Layout technique based on a style of scrolls popular in Naples and Florence 1464-1500.
Color photos of the whole manuscript.
Sixteen SCA scrolls with notes on design and hand for each.
Links to SCA scribal pages, heraldry, and awards.
Cooking
Four platters, includes bibliography
Eight recipes from The British Museum Cookbook.
Embroidery
Designs and photographs
With photographs and embroidery charts.
Reconstruction of a small drawstring bag from London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
From the Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
Includes documentation on the artifact that inspired each chart.
Research and notes on reproduction.
Includes blackwork patterns and photos.
English Work, or How to paint with a needle. Explanation and how-to with examples.
A how-to for this high middle ages embroidery style.
Anglo-Saxon Embroidery Techniques
Original blackwork patterns inspired by historical sources.
Garb
With pictures of the author's recreations
Construction notes on a shoe from Parliament St. York.
Spring Collegium, 2001, West Kingdom
From The Grey Company, a group that focuses primarily on the period 600-1100 AD.
Simple, classic clothing that is suitable for any time period in the Middle East.
this is a cool pattern
A 15th century outfit recreation based on manuscript illuminations.
Research done into the clothing of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Major sources
Includes hemming and seams.
An online view to beginning garb making.
A general guide to footwear in the European Middle Ages
Oh, my God, its 1403 and I have nothing to wear!
Including how to avoid the dreadful muffin-head effect.
Medieval hoods
1 and 3 piece patterns
Medieval costuming, simple with attention to actual period practices. Site includes the javascript Practical Worksheet for Tunic Construction.
An exploration of clothing and accessories of the late 14th and early 15th centuries
Pattern for a Middle Eastern chemise
How to make a set of medieval pants called braies and leggings known as chausses to wear over them.
Covering braies, hose, tunics, coif, and hood.
Tips on measurement and construction.
Easy pointy shoes out of modern leather, which will look accurate at normal distances.
These folks have some good basic patterns.
Using patterns taken from extant examples.
With construction notes on various pieces.
A cursory examination of the extant archaeological and museum materials relating to clothing in the Middle Ages.
Being a 12th Century French Dress Diary and Associated Documents.
Haute Couture of the Fourteenth Century.
Step-by-step guide on how to pin the kerchief worn with Brueghel-era Flemish gowns.
Diagrams and tips for a 16th century France women's outfit.
Cotehardies from Herjolfsnes
Recreation of the Moy Gown.
Heraldry
Over 3.000 pieces of heraldry clipart.
From the University of Notre Dame.
Covers animal positions.
Covers colors, metals, furs, ordinaries, subordinaries, lines of division, and geometric charges.
Need a quick, inexpensive means to create heraldic display? Try this procedure to make banners.
Information and resources on Medieval and SCA heraldry.
Specifically addressing the heraldic needs of Viking personae.
Lions in various positions.
Describes the difference between and usage of flag types.
Music
A medieval music notation plug-in for Finale
Includes PDFs and audio files
Real Audio files
Real Audio files
Research and audio files.
Real Audio files
Woodworking
How to build a simple Gothic-style bench from wood.
Diagrams and instructions on how to make your own.
Patterns for a more stylish version of the standard break-down chair.
Offers articles, plans, book reviews and other resources for medieval and renaissance woodworking.
Diagrams and instructions on how to make your own.
Spiffing up your campsite with medieval furniture
Photographs of existing chests and diagrams for many diffferent types.
Plans and construction for the table seen in Dürer's St. Jerome at His Study.
Miscellaneous
Made from a design in the Museum of London's Dress Accessories book.
Instructions and photograph.
Embellished textile purses in the European 14th century. Includes photos and bibliography.
this guy has some good patterrns for camp furniture
Contains photo of dye colors.
A collection of historical and SCA dances.
Gallery, how-tos, and documentation on medieval beadwork.
Martial Arts
How to make a simple padded arming cap
An on-line Japanese armor manual.
Combat archery crossbows are a different beast than target archery crossbows.
A clear, systematic guide for the do-it-yourselfer.
A hub for education and information about armour and armour-related subjects since 1995.
An on-line journal devoted to teaching people how to make armour.
Here you'll find a lot of pictures and a few words about these amazing pieces of leverage artillery.
This is the homepage for the Lions of Oldenfeld, the martial arm of the Shire of Oldeneld.
A process for water-hardening leather.
Merchants
Fabric & Trim
Fantastic Trims and Fantastic Prices
fabrics
Carriers of silk and cotton.
Pure linen fabric, linen blends, cottons, wools, and more at good prices. Free samples, hundreds of colors, sales and discounts on several yard cuts.
fabrics
Trim.
fabrics
Good prices on velveteen, wool, and linen.
A fantastic selection of SCA Renaissance and vestment brocade fabrics, satins, and trims.
Woven jacquards, metallics and more.
Carriers of inexpensive silk, cotton, and linen; offers discounts on pieces over 5 yards and further discounts on bolts.
Imported silk fabric.
Shoes & Boots
Medieval, renaissance and cavalier shoes, boots and pattens. Prices start at $60.
Handmade leather boots, shoes, and footwear.
Medieval shoes (starting at $100.00) and pattens (starting at $45.00)
Saxon, medieval, and Tudor shoes starting at £ 40.00.
shoes
SCA Links
From the Academy of Saint Gabriel.
Master Bruce's Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Blazon
A collection of Cariadoc's's useful articles.
From the Canterbury Freeman's Rolls of 1298-1363.
Covers good and bad sources for names, with links to sites with names from various cultures.
From Cornell University.
The list of who's who and where in the SCA.
Helping members of medieval re-enactment groups find historically accurate medieval names and coats of arms.
Covers heraldry for the field, events, feasts, and court.
Just For Fun
Downloads of cut-out paper models of buildings. Mostly for sale ($1-$3) and a couple free.
(Since many period shoemakers are in the UK.)
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