YET MORE LINKS FOR:
Costuming, Food and Drink, Making Armor and weapons, Calligraphy and Illumination, Music, Makeup and Special effects, and lots more. The purpose of this page is to be a gathering point for links of any kind, pertaining to "How To..." documents that could be of help for LARP, SCA people, Re-enactment and the like, from pavilion-making, to vampire-fang molding, to brewing, to costume-sewing, etc. So if you have a link, comment, or suggestion, please let me know. ShadowMist Hospitalor

This page was compiled by Anna Troy of Anna’s Crafts Links Page. Thanks, Anna!

• Felt hat on a ball
• Making the Ghawazee Coat
• Helen's Cotehardie Page
• Roman Clothing : Women's
• Roman Clothing : Men's
• Patterns and Instructions for Medieval Russian Costume
• Children's Clothing General.
• Costume History From Babylonian times to the 20th century.
• Islamic Clothing, Free Patterns
• Simple Saxon Cloak
• Simple Saxon Trousers
• Simple Saxon Tunic
• Russian Garb-Basic Overview
• Clothed Seemly and Proper : The 14th century
• Clothed Seemly and Proper : The late 12th and 13th centuries
• Clothed Seemly and Proper : The late 11th and 12th centuries
• Clothed Seemly and Proper : The Saxons
• Lining a Kirtle the Easy Way.
• 12th-13th century clothing : An Essay from primary sources
• 15th-century headresses
• A 14th-century Wire Circlet
• Make a reticulated headdress One of them 15th-century things.
• Upbraid Yourself and others : the Basics of braiding
• How to make a Coif
• How to be a HOOD-lum : Medieval hoods
• Women's Roll Hats
• Easy Men's Hats from 1300-1500
• Roman Clothing
• Hur man klädde sig på vikingatiden Från Elvengrimarne
• Braies Medieval men's underwear
• A Medieval Egyptian Sock Very nice!
• Chapter XVIII - Dress and Personal Adornment of the Ancient Celts
• Obscure references Resource Pages Devoted to Archaeological and Historical Textile Research.
• Rus Male Costume "Rus" was a name for Vikings in Russia. Good!
• The Kingdom of Atlantias Clothing and Costume Links Tons of links!
• Eachna's Cloting index Lots of Celtic stuff.
• Irish Clothing And textile tecniques as well as other things.
• Patterns for Medieval Garb
• Drafting a Houppelande Pattern
• Summary of Women's Cotehardies
• A Study of 12th and 13th Century Clothing.
• Oriental Costumes, Their Design and Colors
• 12th and 13th Century Velvet
• CLOTHING AND HAIR STYLES OF THE BOG PEOPLE
• Easy SCA Garb
• Hasses LRP Sida: Kläder Väldigt enkla klädesmönster
• The Hunting Cloak The making of a cloak
• Pouches and Purses
• History of the Corset
• Houppelande Construction
• Easy SCA Garb Medieval type garb
• Early Medieval Clothes Patterns
• Summary of Women's Cotehardies
• Clothing of the Ancient Celts
• Netting for Hairnets Good illustrations
• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages I have just one thing to say: CHECK THIS OUT!
• Japanese Garb Patterns
• Hose Patterns
• Making a tubdress or peplos Has four very interesting projects
• Basic Dark Age and Medieval Costume Good for the beginner
• Simple Pants
• A Pilgrim's Alms Satchel A pattern and method of construction
• Per Ljungsted's hemsida Har om sömnad, medeltida klädsel och accessoarer och lite annat Lajvgodis.
• Some Clothing of the Middle Ages Historical Clothing from Archaeological Finds, primarily focusing on England and the Scandinavian Milieu. Well worth a look!
• Ärbara kvinnor bär huvudbonader En genomgång av kvinnohuvudbonader från vikingatid fram till 1500 - tal.
• Medeltida sömnad Har en bra beskrivning på en klänning och hur man gör en mantel.
• Greek Costume through the Centuries From Minoan times up until the 19th century.
• Clothing and Appearance of the Pagan Anglo-Saxons
• Min hatt den har tre kanter.... En informativ artikel om medeltida huvudbonader.
• An Archaeological Guide to Viking Men's Clothing Text only
• Viking Tunic Construction
• Clothing of the Ancient Celts Recommended, though not very many illustrations.
• Evolution of the Kilt
• Costumes and Clothing A general clothing history page from ancient times and forward.
• Clothing and Appearance of the Early Christian Anglo-Saxons (ca. 600-800 A.D.)
• The History of Costume A costume book online, with plates of costumes from all over the world. Interesting article.
• Mansdräkt i Manessehandskriften av Herr Olaf Eriksson (Örnklo)
• Recreating 14th Century Braies Medieval mens underwear
• Historical Figures A gold mine of pictures, mostly of Medieval French and English royalty.
• The DIY Guide to LARP Under costuming it has: Dyeing, cloak making, tunic making, shirt making (more authentic that tunic), medieval dressmaking, arming coats making, hood making, poncho making.
• The No Hem Skirt Pattern
• The Garb Bag
• Renaissance and later
• We All Need Linen : An easy guide to shirt and smock
• 16th 17th Century quotes concerning Scottish Men's and Women's Attire
• Undergarment Instructions for four different Chemise models and a corset.
• Historical Knitting Patterns 19th to early 20th century
• Cavalier's Hat Nice for the 17th century
• Woman's Leine
• A Short History and Construction of the Spanish Farthingale
• Renaissance Patterns for Men Doublets and cloaks
• A Milanese Tailor's Handbook Pictures from a handbook from the 16th century, quite interesting.
• A Brief History of Lace in the 1500's
• Caroline Goodwife's Pages for the 17th Century Re-enactor Several interesting articles.
• Italian Renaissance Hair Taping
• Basic Hoop skirt
• Jessamyn's Regency Costume Companion Costume from the 1790's to the 1820's.
• Celtic Dress of the 16th Century Good!
• Detachable Sleeves For an Italian Ren. dress
• Chemise
• Shirts
• 16th 17th Century quotes concerning Scottish Men's and Women's Attire
• A Briefe History of the Codpiece
• The Plaid More kilt history.
• A Quick guide to a Turkish Lady's Dress
• An Effigy of Dona Maria de Parea Primary source for a late 15th-century Castilian Spanish noblewoman's dress.
• Engravings of English Women's Dress of the 17th Century Engraved by Wenceslas Hollar. Has pictures and patterns.
• La Couturière Parisienne Costume and Fashion Site This place is a real goldmine with over 300 images and 50 patterns! 15th Century and forwards
• The Regency Fashion Page
• Victorian Fashion Pages This place is loaded!
• So...what exactly is a Codpiece?
• The Handbook of German dress
• How to Wear a Great Kilt Text only
• How to Wrap and Wear a Great Kilt Good description.
• Italian Renaissance Gown Construction
• The Elizabethan Costuming Page This is where you'll find the bumroll, E. corset and the farthingale from now on and a lot of other stuff.
• The Poulet Gauche Poster Girl How to make a 16th century French kitchen girl's dress.
• Baroque Costumes This page is fairly big with lots of interesting historical articles.
• 17th 19th Century Stocking Design
• Tudor Flat Cap
• Embroidery and other textile tidbits
• Textile Resources for the Re-enactor Has lots of interesting articles about various techniques such as tablet weaving, sprang etc.
• Stitch Count An online calculator
• Netting Lots here :-)
• A Tale of a Sprang Bag
• Fingerloop Braids
• Tips Tricks for Weaving & Spinning
• Photocopying onto Fabric Not very authentic but maybe useful to embroiderers
• Dye Recipies from the Innsbruck Manuscript
• Early and Medieval Western Works on Dyes and Dyeing
• Weaving on the Warp-Weighted Loom: Some Source Materials
• Sharon's Needlework Stitch Dictionary Quite a few stitches. The stitches are shown with photos.
• The Weavers Hand Mostly Tablet weaving but has other things too.
• Early Medieval Embroidery
• Sprang Bags Sprang is a kind of weaving technic. The result is slightly net-like and elastic.
• Elizabethan Embroidery Resources
• Celtic Alphabet Pattern Generator It generates cross-stitch patterns for you.
• Making Authentic Tablets For tablet weaving; interesting, though I'm not quite sure how you're supposed to use it
• Tablet Weaving Archive
• How to Build a Frame Loom For the beginner
• How to Warp Your Frame Loom That is, put on the yarn
• Textiles through Time A collection of links to various museums and other textile related stuff
• Viking-Style Tablet Weaving
• Viking Embroidery Stitches and Motifs
• Medieval/Renaissance Embroidery Homepage
• The Blackwork Embroidery Archives
• Two Stitches for Gobelin Tapestry
• Phiala's String Page Tablet weaving, Naalbinding and other strange string-and-yarn techniques.
• Tablet Weaving Archive
• Metallic Trims for Some Early Period Personae Nice patterns.
• The Lace Maker's Home Page The only lace page I've been able to find with an anachronistic bent.
• The Woad Page Time line of major dye chemicals and their natural sources
• Tailoring, Sewing, etc. Worth looking at if you are interested in fitting etc, has a bodice pattern.
• How to Make your Own Clothes Dummy
• Costume Making Hints and Snippets Cloak making, getting dye out of your costume, reinforcing a collar, pressing and finishing seams.
• Historical Costuming FAQ
• A 12-Step Program for Beginning Costumers
• Sample/Napkin in a Tenth Century Linen Weave
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• ARMOR
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• How to make an Amtgard Round Shield
• ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF LAMELLAR ARMOUR IN THE CURRENT MIDDLE AGES < /li>
• Forth Armory - How To Articles How to make the different tools for riveted maille and how to make the maille itself. Lots of photos.
• Forgery - Round Shield
• Forgery - Perfect Legs
• Armouring tips: Padding and Strapping the Gauntlets
• Building your own Armour; Part 6: Tournament Attire
• Building your own Armour; Part 5: A 14th Century Leg Harness
• Building your own Armour; Part 4: Helmets
• Building your own Armour; Part 3: Early Body Armour
• Building your own Armour; Part 2: Padding the Helm
• Building your own Armour; Part 1: Padded Gambesons
• ARMAMETARIVM The book of Roman Arms and Armor.
• Läderharnesk
• The Perfect Armor Improved: Water Hardened Leather
• Anglo-Saxon Shields
• Anglo-Saxon Helmets
• Anglo-Saxon Armor
• Patrick's Armor Patterns
• Late 13th Century Armour Adapted for SCA Combat
• The Forge, Ancient and Medieval Weapons Armour
• Cad's Pattern Page Has a gauntlet thumb pattern a little other stuff.
• Rustningar Rustningshistoria etc.
• Making historically accurate chain mail
• My Past Armour Projects and Patterns Lots of patterns and photos, especially of helmets.
• Upper Arm Protectors A nice Pauldron pattern.
• Water Hardened Leather
• The Chest Harness Known as the `Varangian Bra'
• The Gjermundbu Mail Shirt A Viking Mail shirt.
• How to Construct a Projectile Combat Helm
• The Armour Archive Lots of interesting stuff!
• Narf's Page O' Help SCA armor making.
• "Do it yourself" Armor Some DeltaCAD patterns.
• Arador Amoury Library Tons of stuff!
• The Silk Road Design Armoury Extensive, deals with the Eastern cultures by the Silk Road.
• Hur man gör en ringbrynja
• Armor Patterns Contains links to patterns for a coat of plates and ring armor.
• Arms and Armour,Glossary of Terms
• Chain Mail Construction Also has a version in German.
• Sara's Chainmail Connection THE chainmail Page and a really good one at that.
• Hur man gör en 'Heater'-sköld
• Chain Maille by Lord Randolph Highly recommended. He also sells rings and clasps.
• Making a Heater Shield For the SCA.
• Japanese Chain Armor A different type of chain-mail.
• Therion's armor and weapons page For inspiration. has ton's of photos and links.
• The Making of Wisby Plate It might not look like much when it's finished but it's very popular amoung the SCA fighters in Visby( modern spelling). Also includes "The making of plastic leg-armour".
• Much ado about Bondage How you're supposed to fasten your lamellar armour right.
• Maile-How To Fun-looking Page.
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• Food and Drink
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• Culinary History Page Has also drink.
• Medieval Cookbooks - An Annotated Bibliography
• Living History Cookery Book Recipies from the 16th-18th centuries.
• Medieval Mustard
• Food during the Fur Trade Era
• Medieval Cooking Has a beginners guide among other things.
• Cooking in Ostgard Various interesting things.
• Cindy Renfrew's Culinary Brewing History Links Lots of stuff!
• The Roman Orgy Page Roman cooking.
• Cooking Basics for Campers
• Över öppen eld : Vikingatida recept
• Hildegard's Kitchen
• A Byzantine Feast
• Cooking, The Lammas Harvest-Festival Feast
• Medieval Cookbooks A bibliography.
• The Cookbook of Sabina Welserin Written 1553.
• Cooking and Food Links Tons of stuff here as well.
• A Pilgrim's Picnic Basket
• Cheese Making for the Compleat Novice
• The Soirm Duin Feast Halls A collection of various recipies and links.
• Archaeological Finds of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Viking Foodstuffs
• Assorted Recipes
• Chicken on a String A way of grilling a whole chicken over a camp fire.
• Cheesemaking in Scotland - An Early History
• Serve It Forth! A Periodical Forum for SCA Cooks.
• Cariadoc and Elizabeth's Recipes: Introduction
• C. M's Recipe Alphabetical Index
• Cooking from Primary Sources
• To Make a Feast
• St Valentine's Day Massacre Feast Cookbook XXV Lots of recipe.
• Making Butter Then and Now
• Food Some recipies from the 16th- and 17th-century, mostly Swedish.
• Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
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• Drink
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• The Art of Culturing Yeast
• Brewing information from House Greydragon Has among other things beer, wine and mead recipies.
• Vintning the Landsknecht Way
• The Mysteries of Mead
• Nordrikes Bryggarskrå
• Angående Mjöd
• Vikingatida Mjöd
• Hur man brygger Mjöd
• The Brewery : Total Home Brewing Information
• Brewing and Beverages Links TONS of stuff.
• The Blort's Snork A collection of brewing recipes.
• The Bee's Lees A collection of Mead recipes.
• On Wine Making In The Roman World
• The Mead Maker's Page
• Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage
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• Footwear and Leather
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• SHOE FROM PARLIAMENT ST. YORK has a good pattern that, with some modification, can be used forvarious shoetypes through the Middle Ages.
• Shoe Size Chart Shows what American sizes are in Eurpoean and vice versa.
• Converting a Hide Into Leather or Fur
• Gillie Brogues A kind of shoe.
• Soft boots With patterns.
• Footwear Not exactly traditional but lots of interesting info.
• Late 14th Century Shoe with Poulaine A photo series.
• Medieval Bombards and other vessels Has a photo series on a way of making them.
• Medieval Shoes from the Bata Museum Collection Page 1, Page 2, Page 3 Lots of photos!
• Pictish Shoe Just a picture.
• Medieval Shoes found in Newcastle upon Tyne An article and in the last sentance a link to pcitres of four shoe models that were found.
• Anglo-Saxon/Viking Leather Working
• Home Tanning
• Ians DIY Leatherworking info
• Learher Use FAQ Has a Medievalist slant.
• Brain Tanning
• The International Internet Leather Crafters Guild Has patterns as well as a lot of other stuff.
• Medieval Leather Items, Information and Reseach Lots of Photos.
• 17th Century Shoes Boots Photos.
• Wet-Scrape Buckskin Brain-Tanning
• Braintan.com Tutorials on skinning and tanning. I own their buckskinning book and I recommend it.
• Leather Substance Conversion Table Finaly you can find out what the leather weight is in milimeter thickness.
• Venitian Chopins 16th-century elevated pattens.
• How to make a shoe last Short and sweet.
• Leather Working How to make a seamless pouch and picture of viking boots.
• Pattern archive A ftp-archive with 11 files on 8th - 9th-century shoes.
• Reproducing a Late 14th Century Shoe
• HOW TO MAKE A PAIR OF GLOVES, ONE PAIR AT A TIME
• Early Medieval Irish Shoes
• Leatherworking in the Middle Ages
• Sko dig för Livet En artikel om skor, ursprungligen skriven för Fea Livia.
• Leathercrafts Knowledge Base A database of leather working articles.
• Läderhistorik
• Bill's Tips Tricks
• Leathercrafting, Net Style Has hints and tips.
• Hide Tanning
• Footwear of the Middle Ages Everything you'd ever want to know about making shoes and more.
• Leatherworking-A Basic Guide
• Pouch Making Guide
• Viking Footwear! Good page. Too bad the patterns aren't bigger though.
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• Here I collect links on how to build and play various instruments but also other music and dance stuff as well from time to time. Go to: Instruments building, playing and such Music, Song and Dance


• Instruments building, playing and such
• Ceolas Celtic Music Archive THE place for Celtic music and instrument know-how.
• Women's Early Music
• Kamuran's Guide for Doumbek Players
• Harpsichordist to the Internet Has fingering, some notes etc.
• Svensk säckpipa Hur man bygger etc.
• A Memento : The Medieval Recorder
• The Lute Page many interesting pages.
• Lute Page for Guitarists
• The Lute and Early Music Page Mostly Tabulature but there are other links as well. This guy also has a Lute Tabulature computer program.
• How to Make Your Own War Horn (Cornette) Does not tell you how to play.
• Excerps on Hand positions for the lute. Several old texts from the 16th-century that are translated into English.
• Gaelic Harps Harpers in Ireland & Scotland A history of harp development.
• Hammered Dulcimer Stand Plan
• Improving your dulcimer playing
• Anders gitarr kurs En extensiv kurs med en webstämmare m.m.
• Rope Tuning Hand Drums
• How to Make Thy Own Hammered Dulcimer
• How to Make a One-Stringed Dulcimer Very simple.
• Making Your Own Pipes
• Building the Welsh Crowd A type of plucked string instrument.
• Building a Wooden Period Instrument Mostly about building a hammered dulcimer, clear pictures and some sheet music.
• HOW TO BUILD A HAMMER DULCIMER
• Music Secrets, A Clarification of How Things Really Work! Interesting.
• Lute Etching < /a>
• Building a Hurdy-gurdy
• Mike Simpson's Semi-Comprehensive Tin Whistle Guide
• Stringed Instrument Care
• Hurdy-Gurdy Pictorial Gallery Lots of nice photos.
• How to Make a Gemshorn
• CD Universe's Guide to Classical Music Short articles about music from various periods.
• The Bagpipe Web
• Violin Making By Hans Johannsson.
• PhotoStory: How to make a violin From the Violin Makers School STRADIVARI in Cremona, Italy.
• Drum Making
• The Guitar, pre-1600
• Hammered Dulcimer Page All you want to know about Hammered Dulcimers.
• A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments Quite handy.
• David Daye's Bagpipe Page He has lots of nifty construction improvements as well as general bagpipe stuff.
• Building a Cornamuse in F(Alto)
• How to Make a Quena A traditional Andean Flute.
• The Pipes and Drums of the 1st Royal Engineers How to play the Scottish bagpipes but the lessons are as yet only in Swedish.
• How to Play the Quena
• ~How to Play the "Renaissance" Folk Flute~
• The Recorder Home Page Construction Design.
• The Reid Project Reid/Dunn Uillean Pipes at the Smithsonian Institute.
• Making Plastic Bagpipe Reeds
• Pictures of plastic Bombard Reed Making
• Care Instructions for Wooden Flutes
• Northumbrian Smallpipes Has good drawings.
• Hand-tools for Recorder Making
• How to make a Hurdy Gurdy
• Adding a 2nd melody string to that HG
• Uillean Pipes Home-Building Page
• Building a conduit-tubing Dulcimer
• Building a simple Hammered-Dulcimer
• Converting a Guitar into a Mandolin
• A quiet pipe for night practice
• Highland pipes made from PVC piping
• Constructing pipe bags for the Highland pipes
• Building a simple check-valve for the Highland pipes
• Converting a regular fiddle into a Hardanger fiddle
• Making Bagpipes
• Irish Flute care
• Drumhead Care
• Bodhran Care
• Flute Restoration
• Hurdy Gurdy Adjustment
• Care Instructions for Wooden flutes
• Making an End-Blown Flute
• Added improvements to the End-Blown Flute
• Making a PVC pipe Flute
• Making a PVC pipe Fife
• Making a Yokobue That is, a type of Japanese flute. Very good illustrations.
• How to Play the Yokobue
• Building a Goblet Drum Okay, so it's not very old-fashioned, but what a drum!
• Building a Steelpan Drum For those swinging post-nuclear nights.
• Alden Hackmann's Hurdy-Gurdy Home Page
• Technical Drawings of Musical Instruments in Public Collections around the World Addresses etc.
• The Saxon Lyre: History, Construction and Playing Techniques.
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• Music, Song and Dance
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• Early Polish Music
• < font color="#FFCC00"> Black Letter Ballads From the 17th century.
• to Amhrán Gaelach The oldest collection of Irish language songs on the web.
• The SCA Dance Music of Mistress Ellisif Flakkari More sheetmusic and it includes RealAudio as well.
• The SCA Sheet Music List A long list of various types of sheet music.
• Filking 101 : The Folk Music of Science Fiction
• Tristan, Bard of Mystery Has some SCA filk, British Isle folk lyrics etc.
• Bill's Early Music ad Lute Page Has an empty tabulature template etc.
• Del's Dance Book
• The Black Book of Locksley A collection of SCA filk, etc. in .zip file format.
• Sixteenth-Century Printed Tablatures for the Lute, Vihuela, Guitar, and Cittern
• Del's dance Book 15th- and 16th-century dance.
• FILKING 101:The Folk Music of Science Fiction and the SCA.
• Music and Verse About music during the Anglo-Saxon period in England.
• The Calontir Songbook More Filk.
• Juneborgs sångbok Har en blandning av äkta medeltids sånger och "filk".
• Music and Verse An article about the music traditions of the Anglo-Saxons.
• Cantaria < /a> A lyrics library that has accompanying soundclips!
• The Caidan Fray Songbook SCA filk.
• The Fat Guys Song Book SCA Filk, mostly from the kingdom of Drachenwald.
• Sixteenth Century Ballads: A work in progress...
• Medieval English Ballads
• Dance Instruction Manuals ca 1490 - 1920
• Barden Runds Visbok Lajvvisor.
• Early Child Ballads
• THE WORLD'S OLDEST DANCE : The Origins of Oriental Dance That is Belly-dancing
• The Music of the 14th Century A HTML interface to the Gopher databases.
• The Tam Lin Pages It's about the Scottish ballad of Tam Lin.
• The SCA Minstrel Homepage Great mailinglist for those who are intrested in pre-1600's music.
• Early Music FAQ
• SCA Music and Dance Homepage
• Gregorian Chant Notation
• Renaissance Dance < /a>
• Writing a Period Ballad "Period" in the SCA is before the year 1600.
• Spanish Music before the 15th Century < /a> Has also about their instruments
• Reading Lute Tablature
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• Anything that has to do with make-up, special effects and strange costumes goes here.
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• How to Make Nice-Looking Fangs for Next to Nothing < /li>
• The Star Trek Costume Site Extensive
• Build your own Ghost Busting Equipment
• Build your own Boba Fett Costume
• The Golden Stag Gets Plastered Commedia Mask Making Project. CAUTION! Make sure the person under the plaster has straws stuck up their nostriles so they can breathe! And be careful so you don't clogg up those straws.
• Teeth Fangs How to make vampire fangs, a fake gold tooth etc.
• Carving a Foam Head
• A FX Glossery
• Klingon Costume Stuff
• Hur man gör åldrat papper
• The Painting Process of a Latex Mask
• The basics of Mask Making Latex masks to be more precise.
• How to Make Fake Blood
• How we make Werewolf Costumes. For all you out there who've dreamed of a Crinos costume. Advanced.
• How a Latex Mask is made Proffesional, only pictures.
• Pyrotechnics
• Llinks that go to pages that pertain to Calligraphy, Illumination, Bookmaking and Painting.
• Go to: Calligraphy Illumination

Books, Painting and Tools of the Trade
Illuminated Manuscripts Online

• Calligraphy Illumination
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• Calligraphy Some Italian diaper patterns.
• TECHNIQUES OF ILLUMINATION AND THE BOOK OF HOURS
• Regional and Global Characteristics of Illuminated Manuscripts
• Ottonian Calligraphy and Illumination A style from 10-11th century Germany.
• Medieval Renaissance Calligraphy
• Medieval Calligraphy
• On an Ancient Appearance Interesting. How to make your calligraphied text feel more ancient.
• RVLES MADE BY F. B. FOR Children to write by. An interesting treatise from 1611, some picture on hand positions.
• Italian Renaissance Scrolls
• Draw Your Own Celtic Knots
• Celtic Knotwork Construction Class
• Making an Illuminated Cover Illustration I highly recommend this, the photos are good as well as the discriptions and he uses extremly period methods.
• An Introduction to Parchment
• County Scroll/Everyday book The making of a very nice medieval illuminated book.
• Gilding
• Calligraphy < /a> Some interesting pictures of early scripts.
• The Illuminated Initial: How to and Where Good, but the pictures are a bit small.
• CELTIC KNOTWORK FOR KLUTZES: THE GRID METHOD
• The Kingdom of Atlantias Scribal Home Page
• Tips and Tricks Vol 1 Short but interesting.
• SCA Scribes home page
• Kingdom of the Outlands Scribe's Handbook
• Islamic Calligraphy < /a> Lots of examples.
• Celtic Art and Illumination Knotwork instructions etc.
• John Stracke's Book Reviews: Calligraphy Illumination Formerly "A Scribe's Bibliography".
• Middle Kingdom College of Scribes We're talking Midrealm here.
• Making a Medieval Book
• Several Period Hands
• The Raven's Quill #1 Some interesting articles.
• The West Kingdoms Scribe Handbook
• Sources for Period Illuminations and Supplies No articles, just sources.
• Tips Towards Better Whitework
• An Apprentice's Handbook for Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts
• Baron Morgan's Scriptorium Lots of fun stuff.
• Medieval Ductus 6 Medieval scripts.
• The Cyber-scriptorium THE SCA scribal Page.
• The Gutenberg School of Scribes Lessons for Beginner Scribes on How to Illuminate Pre-printed SCA Scrolls.
• The Lochac College of Scribes They have a collection of links to various manuscripts on the list etc.
• The illumination step-by-step , of the scroll of Sir Arafel in the SCA.
• The Write Stuff Early Medieval manuscript-making
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• Books, Painting and Tools of the Trade
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• Medieval and Renaissance Book Production - Manuscript Books
• Cumdachs and Polaires Medieval Irish Book Shrines and Book Satchels.
• Quill Reservoir
• Hints on Use of Parchment
• A Very Proper Treatise:The Arte Of Limming An anonymous work of 1573 transcribed into modern English by the hand of Merouda Pendray.
• How to Make a Waxed Tablet
• Painting on Cloth in the Mediaeval Period
• Quills - Part 1: General Information Has also an article about inks.
• The Ink Compendium
• Making and Using Waxed Tablets Make your own Medieval notebook.
• Period Inks
• Period Colors for SCA Scrolls
• Make Your Own Holbein Furthering portraiture in the SCA.
• Reed Pens Quick instructions.
• Making a Medieval Book Mostly photos.
• Girdle Calender
• QuillCut Hur man skär till en fjäderpenna.
• Writing Materials in the Roman World
• What are the possibilities of Pigments? By Synopia.
• < a href="http://www.niagara.com/~acavasin/rick/process.htm"> Parchment Making : A brief description of the Process
• The Golden Section The Geometry behind the Golden section which is used extensively in late Medieval and Renaissance painting.
• How To Cut a Bamboo Pen
• Writing Quills The making of them and the ink.
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• Illuminated Manuscripts Online
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• Medieval Manuscript Leaves FIFTY ONE LEAVES FROM MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
• Celtic Illuminated Manuscripts A kind of bibliography.
• An Image Collection of European Written Historical Documents
• Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry
• Web Gallery of Art Go to the "Quick index" and then "the Gothic section" and there you'll find quite a bit of stuff.
• The Burnet Psalter
• The Aberdeen Bestiary Project A very nice illuminated manuscript.
• Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
• Bibliotheca Schoenbergensis:An Exhibition from the Collection of Lawrence J. Schoenberg Some very nice illuminations.
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University Takes a bit of surfing to get to the actual images.
• Manuscripts Some links to some 14th and 15th century manuscripts.
• THE EARLY HEBREW PRINTING HOMEPAGE A Virtual Guide to the Great Jewish Libraries and Rare Book Collections On-line Hebrew Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Written Antiquities.
• Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor You get to see very fine details, it's just to point and click :-)
• DScriptorium "..devoted to collecting, storing and distributing digital images of Medieval manuscripts."
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This is where I put the stuff that I can't seem to fit anywhere else and bigger, mixed Link-collection pages.

• The Roman Army 2
• The Roman Army 1
• The Ravens Warbad Guide to making Ango-Saxon Weapons and Equipment That includes clothes.
• SCA-Arts Listcitation index The collected wisdom of the SCA Arts list.
• The Aikido FAQ Contains info on how to make different salves for aching muscles like Tiger Balm.
• The Web Gallery of Art Art 1100-1750, great place for costume inspiration.
• From Beer Bottle to Arrowhead
• The Medieval Science Page Looked fun.
• LATIN 1: THE EASY WAY A different way to learn Latin and even I found it understandable.
• Medieval Drama Links
• The CORACLES of GLENNATIEGH
• A Treasury of Alliterative and Accentual Poetry Write poetry the Medieval way.
• Medieval Diving Dress Photos, you got it, they actually made and tried this thing.
• Learning Irish
• Artifact Quartely The Journal of Arts and Sciences in the Middle Ages. Has Several interesting articles.
• Roman Life
• "VICTORIANA, Resources for Victorian Living"
• The Viking Answer Lady Plenty of interesting Viking stuff here.
• HOW TO BE A PISTOLERO For those who recreate the Wild West.
• Syskonskapet, Levande Rollspel Det största och snyggaste LRP sidan som Sverige har för tillfället, rekommenderas.
• A Welsh Course You have to be equipped for sound but if you are, this is great!
• Stefan's Florilegium (formerly the Rialto). The collected wisdom of the SCA newsgroup and it just keeps growing.
• Viking Pottery Kilns
• NativeTech Native American crafts galore!
• Potion Bottle
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• Metel Working
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• Definitely a Toss: Irish Celtic Scabbards from the River Bann These metal scabbards are beautiful.
• Viking Age Metal Casting Also has lots of photos of jewelry.
• Soldering Tips
• Step by Step Soldering
• SEALING WAX STAMPS
• Handbok i silversmide Utförligt!
• Blades 'N' Stuff
• Steel Data Chart For Knifemaking
• Sixty Centuries of Copper
• Dishing Sheet Metal For hilts and hand guards.
• The Electric Anvil Has lots of interesting articles.
• Viking Bronze Casting Also in Swedish.
• Lapidary Journal On-line Check out their workshop section with an article on how to make granulated earrings. Check also "Technically speaking".
• Wire and Sheet Metal Gauge Equivalents
• Kymber's Casting Page
• anvilefire.com Lots of interesting stuff.
• The Blacksmith's Junkyard Check out the Sketchebook link!
• Tips from the Jeweler's Bench A BIG database with ton of metal working info. They also sell books.
• What is Pewter?
• Bronze Casting: The Lost Wax or Cire-Perdue Process
• Lost Wax Bronze Casting Method
• Schematics for a Fullering tool
• Making Engraving Tools From Nails
• The Blacksmith's Compendium Pieced together from "The Forge" mailing list.
• Fremlin's Forgery Has some tutorials , mostly about horse shoes.
• Armor Fluting Press
• Metal Web News Has lots of metal working articles of varying strangeness, ex. "How to make your own anvil.
• Viking/Saxon Iron working
• Greek Jewellery, 5000 years of tradition Has techniques and tools, as well as history.
• Bronze Working
• Blacksmith Basics Includes how to make your own anvil!
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Hand-held Weapons and mixed Weapons pages

• The Ravens Warband Seax A type of Anglo-Saxon/Viking shortsword.
• Basic HACA Padded Contact-Sparring Swords
• Sword Making Has how to make rapier hilts as well.
• Sword Forum Magazine On-Line Really snazzy-looking.
• Knighthood, Chivalry Tournaments Resource Library Has articles on Fighting etc.
• The Spear Butt
• The Spear Butt - An Addenda
• The Cavemans Armory "Dawn-time" and Native American weaponry.
• How to Make SOLAR Legal Weapons a couple of different boffer weapons.
• How to make a bokken A Japanese practice sword made out of wood.
• Knivar och dolkar 1250 - 1500
• Japanese Swords Has about forging them and other stuff.
• Making a Basket-hilt sword For the SCA.
• Byg dit eget live-svaerd
• Forging a Norman Sword
• Dagorhir Weapons Resource Page Has lots on LARP weapons and other stuff.
• The D.I.Y. Sword making Guide



Missile and Siege Weapons

• The Do It Yourself Archery Equipment Page
• A Basic Manual on Tomahawk Throwing
• On-Target Online An Tirs (an SCA group) Target Archery magazine. Has various interesting articles.
• The Tennis Ball Launching Cross-bow
• Val av båge?
• Care maintenance of wooden arrows
• Making your own Weapons A collection of various articles.
• Construction of Combat Arrows and Bolts Using Baldar blunts and tennis balls
• TUNING ARROWS
• HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN BOW STRING
• Om konsten att skjuta båge
• Archery articles
• PROJECTILE COMBAT New Varangian Guard Combat Archer stuff.
• A Glossary of Archery
• A Bibliography of Archery
• The Solenarion The Byzantine Arrow Guide.
• The Bungeelista Or, How to Build a Surgical-Tubing Ballista
• CATAPULTS -in Greek and Roman Antiquity
• Archery Newsgroups - FAQs Lots of various information pertaining to Archery.
• The Quivermaking guide How to make a simple quiver.
• Ballista bolt diagram of a Caid B. Bolt.
• Medieval Crossbow Pages
• Experimental ABD Crossbow Bolts and Arrows A couple different types of boffer crossbow bolts for the SCA.
• The Stickbow A On-Line Bow-and-Arrow building magazine.
• Crossbow blueprints
• Defensive Archery Techniques
• Calculating Wooden Shaft Spin < li> Assembling a Wooden Arrow
• Arrow Making
• Making a Dozen Arrows
• Traditional Bowstring Making
• Wood Baking for bow-making.
• General Bow Construction FAQ with pictures.
• General Bow Construction
• Precision Arrow Matching
• The Medieval English Longbow < li> Some Speculation on the Nature of Longbowstrings
• Further Speculation on the Nature of Longbowstrings
• Ten Basic steps in Archery
• Archery FAQ's
• LRP Arrow Making Guide MKIII Includes LRP bow use.



Various Manuals

• Primary Fencing resouces Another link- collection.
• The Swetnam manual Another fencing manual.
• The HACA Guide to Historical Manuals Online Extensive
• Warfare in the Ancient World
• A Short Treatise on the Art of Rapier Fencing as it is done in the SCA
• A Distilled DiGrassi
• Mieczko Sword Shield SCA fighting.
• Dylan's Fencing Page Links to fencing manuals and SCA fencing rules.
• Primary Resources of Defence Links to Fencing Manuals etc.
• The Mysterious Circle School A Spansih fencing style.
• No Shield to Hide Behind A Guide to Two-Handed Weapons Forms
• King René's Tournament Book A 15th- century book on how to hold a tourney.
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• ARTS and SCIENCES
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• Hot Glass Bits About Glassbloing among other things.
• Lampworking Lingo
• MAKING CHEVRON BEADS BY Lampworking
• Brian Kerkvliet's Glass Articles For those who want to make glass beads etc.
• Beds based on the Viking design.
• A Period Rope Bed
• 13th Century Spanish Loom
• Wood Moisture About the art of drying wood.
• Sources of Loom Building Plans
• How to make an eating dagger pt.2-Hilting the handle
• How To Make an Eating Dagger from a File
• A Jig for Marking Clock Wheels for Cutting
• Bob Myer's Camp Table and Patrol Box
• Patrol Kitchen Box Plans
• Classical Carving Patterns Has a woodcarving primer and a neat section on how to carve wood spirits etc.
• So, you want to carve stone
• Medieval and Renaissance Lathes
• Medieval Woodworking, Part 3
• How to make a medieval chair
• EXPERIMENTS WITH EARLY MEDIEVAL POTTERY
• Four piece chair plans
• The "Spiffing up your campsite" series... Funiture plans etc.
• Anglo-Saxon Woodworking
• Using and Working With Horn
• Making a Bone Needle
• Bone and Antler Working
• Kniven, från flinta till rostfritt Knivens historis plus hur man gör en egen kniv och slida.
• EXPERIMENTS WITH EARLY MEDIEVAL POTTERY
• Twill Beadwork
• Kick Wheel Plans How to make your own pottery wheel.
• British Native Woods and their uses in history
• How to make a small Bow Lathe
• Woodworking on the Web Many good articles and other things.
• A Replica Viking Chest
• How to make a replica of a Viking Table
• Early Wood Lathes Starts with an ancient Egyptian lathe.
• Using and Working With Horn
• The 'Lund' Viking Stool
• A Primer on Carving Soapstone With photos.
• Stone Carving -Tools of the Trade
• Glass and Amber working in the Anglo-Saxon World
• Humlebo träslöjd Har en fotoserie om svepteknik och karvsnitt.
• Medieval Woodworking, Part 1: Woodland
• Medieval Woodworking, Part 2
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Under "Your Home" there are links that have to do with various abodes and their construction and various camping tips. Larger link-pages will also be here. "Inside Your Home" has links to how to make the inside of your shelter more then just a place to stay dry. Such as playing games, making hygiene products and other domestic links that are a bit hard to fit in elsewhere :-)

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Inside your Home

Your Home

• Awning Idea
• Making Fire with Flint and Steel
• How a Boy Scout makes Fire Without Matches With a fire drill.
• The Fire Plow A stick and a board.
• The Firepiston : Ancient Fire Making Machine Looks like an old type of pocket lighter from the 19th century.
• Fire Building Notes III
• Fire Building Notes II
• Fire Building Notes
• Newbill's Gear What to bring for a Buckinning/Mountain Man camping trip.
• Fire Fixins Staring a fire the old-fashioned way.
• The news letters of the Know World Architetural Guild Te Known World is the SCA. Hosted by Medieval Pavilion Resources
• An Anglo Saxon Geteld Pattern
• MEDIEVAL PAVILION RESOURCES THE place to go!
• The Construction and History of Medieval Timber-Framed Houses in England and Wales For the ambitious!
• Dragonwing Tent making articles
• Camp Chase Gazette , the voice of Civil War Reenacting. Look in their archives!
• How we made our own Gher or Yurt
• Making a Medieval Single-Pole Pavilion Great for the loner.
• How to make a Medieval (Shade) Pavilion
• On the Making of Your Own Pavilion
• Tent Hints
• What Held Tents Up?
• What Holds Tents Up?
• On the Making of Your Own Pavilion
• Dragonwings Tent Hints generally good stuff for putting up your tent.
• The Construction of a Yurt
• Make your own Mini Pavilion
• The Yurt Very picture intense.
• Keeping your tent dry
• An SCA Shed
• Nils Efficient Tent Design
• Viking/Saxon Houses and Furniture
• Tent pictures etc. Check out their pavilion pattern generator.
• The Griffin's Den An Inn pavilion.
• Building a Conjecturally Period Pavilion

Inside Your Home

• Make stuff Formulas, lotions powders and alot of other personal hygiene products.
• Regler för Hnefatafl
• Merelles A game. Variations are Nine and Twelve Man Morris.
• The Beginning of Soapmaking
• Medieval Candlemaking
• Games from the Drachenwalds Children's Guild Can't say if any are old but it will help keep the chil'ens busy.
• Measurements in the Middle Ages
• Building a Modern Camp Kitchen
• Hur man gör upp eld Titta efter julträdet så står det om hur man gör upp eld och hur man tillverkar fnöske.
• Event Packing Lists and Tips
• < a href="http://www.teleport.com/~sca/3yc/camp.html"> Encampment by Design Might give you some packing ideas.
• Camping Tips
• Alphonso X Book of Games
• Everything You Wanted To Know About Soap But Were Too Afraid To Ask
• How to Make Soap Page Tons about soap!
• Soap Crafters Company How to make soap in different ways.
• Roman Board Games
• Medieval Renaissance Games Home Page Tons of stuff here.
• The Knotting Dictionary of Kännet also in Swedish.