... It's not just you. I went looking before I sent the shoe question email, and could get no acknowledgement the sig site existed... Glad they're back up! ...
Thanks Margita, I finally found one of my sewing students who has an umbrella swift and an old crotchety yarn winding wheel. It works (after a fashion) and...
It arrived! I am so pleased! I ordered some fine, 2-ply, naturally dyed hemp yarn for selling at Pennsic (and my website but there's no way I can put them up...
Greetings, I have 10 yards of fairly heavy linen, white with thin blue or black stripes about an inch apart. I'm dying to do something with it. Does anyone...
Um, is it just me, or are the Freeservers sites down? Has the SIG homepage moved? Or is there a mirror site somewhere? --Mikhail, who wants to re-peruse the...
Ooooh. A book on a topic we've recently been discussing, reviewed by The Medieval Review. (I'm not the reviewer, I just forward this stuff on.) -- Pani Jadwiga...
Greetings, all. It is time for me to make footgear and I'm not finding that great shoe link someone sent a bit ago, nor am I able to make the Novgorod Museum...
Had a great time in Croatia, which included brief visits to the town of Porec' (Parezzo) and Rovinj (Rovignone) on the Istrian coast. The last time I was even...
I am looking for some good historical info on the first kings of the Piast dynasty in Poland, in English. Thanks! Pan Zygmunt Nadratowski Middle Kingdom,...
... in October, this is it. I was delighted to hear that Lady Marie Lorraine de Montclair was offering "Russian Clothing and Embroidery: A Slide Presentation...
Before zipping off to Croatia I did have a chance to see the Coronation Jewels on display at Prague Castle - but boy was I glad to have a 'staff & relatives'...
A list of obviously Slavic-themed classes and the annual SIG fest for those attending [not me, sob!] this year's Pennsic. Not as many as in previousl years,...
I am trying to write a new persona. A Czech Persona from about the 900 -1000 A.D. Any information that any one has of this time period would be appreciated it....
Hello, List. :) I just joined on the recommendation of my local Herald, as I'm developing a Polish persona and a device. (Agnieszka SurnameHere from the...
This book is currently on sale for 50% off on Dover's website: Medieval Russian Ornament in Full Color: From Illuminated Manuscripts Over 1000 motifs reprinted...
I have been reminded of a book that I've found useful... _European Paganism: the realities of cult from antiquity to the Middle Ages_ by ken Dowden. (NY:...
The planed huge reenactment of the Siege of Czestochowa at doylestown was canceled, but a smaller event is planned for oct31-nov1/2 2003 at Ft Randolf WV, not...
The request for Russian info has me wondering what it was like for the Pols as well. Also, does anyone know where I can find a record of when nobles were alive...
<<A nice large-format photo album/book>> I have it. It's called "Photographs for the Tsar", ed. Robert H. Allshouse, pub. by The Dial Press in New York c.1980....
... Ohhh! I'd like these. ... These too. ... Pretty please? Thank you very much for letting us know about this! -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika...
http://www.ckrumlov.cz/uk/zamek/oinf/t_gotkac.htm Don't know if this has already been posted here. I stumbled across it in my research and thought I'd share...
Hi, Where can I find reliablie patterns and photos to make accurate copies of purses, sheaths, bags, belts and other leather equipment for Slavic precise...
