Congratulations! Your wedding sounds absolutely wonderful! My husband and I would have loved to have a period wedding but finances and time constraints made it...
I suspect that is not ermine. The fur is way too long. I would guess lynx, personally. Cut from the back using a utility knife, not scissors. Take very small...
Hello Lidia, I am relatively new to the SCA and I love the Tudor time period as well. I'm from the East Kingdom my SCA name is Anna Tailor. I'm very serious...
I'll start by saying I am not a Catholic. I have to politely disagree with Michael Gerard Curtememoire that reenacting a 16th century wedding is, "somewhere...
Hi Petranella, What do you think makes the black spots in the fur? Do lynx have black spots? Lynx are much bigger than ermine so that would be great if I dont...
The fur lining the coat is most likely lynx or leopard belly fur. It looks too long to be ermine to my eye. I would look for an affordable lynx fur coat to...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/secrets-viking-sword.html For those of you who were not able to watch this when it aired, it is available online at the...
I know that in medieval thought, each of the seven liberal arts (Grammar, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, and Astronomy) was governed by one...
... From Dante's "Convivo": http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Italian/ConvivioII.htm#_Toc189547314 Here it is grammer-Moon, dialectics-Mercury,...
Greetings to the list, This is for those of you in the Pacific Northwest region of the US (and BC for you Canadians) who are members of the Society for...
The soon to be Barony of Wyewood will be hosting Twelfth Night 2014, January 10-12, 2014, Double Tree by Hilton - Seatac Airport, 18740 International...
First, I apologize for taking over-long to get back to this. Second, I thank KaraM for her clear and helpful disagreement--not merely labeled polite but...
It might be worth checking into, though. I do know of an instance where a priest was able to get a dispensation to do a Latin Mass at a Civil War event, it...
Greetings! I've heard of earlier-style masses done in Spain, for "historic reasons". According to wikipedia these are not rare occurrances. See the last two ...
... Many years ago Anne of Bradford (then living in Oertha) made Mantle out of Ermine for Duke Radnor of Guildemar. There is a photo of it on line here ...
Greetings, I have been assembling myself a black wool hood fully lined in fur (from a (probably) mink coat I found at a second hand store). Since I live in...
Kareina Personally I would make the hood to suit your period persona & wear a modern reflective vest for your walks. Reflective vests are more noticable than a...
You may be able to add a few descrete buttons and loops in order to button a reflective stripe on the hood for modern safety convenience yet still be able to...
... Hi Ranif, I don't have a set period and persona of my own, but generally like a variety of early period styles. The reason I asked on the list is that I ...
MODERATOR NOTE, please sign your posts so we know who you are! Welcome to the group. Hello, I may be going to Pennsic this year. I did a bit of a web search...
... I think so, but i can doublecheck with His Grace, Duke Cariadoc, who originated and continues to operate the Enchanted Ground (he is actually the reason...
My lady and I used to teach SCA classes in Early Modern English and mark off a spot in front of our pavilion as an enchanted circle; but that was in...
I have communicated with His Grace, Duke Cariadoc (actually he wrote to me about something else), and i should hear back in a couple days as to whether he's...
Good morning, everyone. In my duties as moderator for a couple Yahoo Groups and as a private email user, I came home to discover several people had sent me...
Thank you ________________________________ From: LJonthebay <wodeford@...> To: Authentic_SCA@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2013 11:27 AM ...
I just put together a little video about the history of knucklebones as a game/toy/dice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrIbNxumT4Y Chas -- MacGregor Historic...
