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Stuff to use for camping in the SCA

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Trestle Table

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I’ve always liked trestle tables.  I like how you can see how they work, and I like that they can be demountable and the parts moved elsewhere when you need MORE FLOOR.  Or outside, I have grand ideas of having people over to eat in the garden. Here’s the kind I like best, with a shaped leg upright, though not the ornate stretcher, and preferably even more painted than this.  Like Swedish Style.Doesn’t it look like you could just knock that apart, set the top against a wall, hang the legs and stretcher up, at the end of a work … Continue reading Trestle Table

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Laundry and Towels That Dry

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(thanks to the lovely and wonderful Lord Eoin for today’s inspiration) Here are some lovely re-enactors playing with laundry.  (we are so nuts.  who else would do laundry by hand, probably scrupulously taking notes somewhere behind that gorgeous washtub, and call it "play"?  Go see the rest of KirrilyRobert’s pics.) Do you think those shifts that are being worn are cotton?  The green dress looks like linen – I find it very funny how I’m learning to tell at a GLANCE which is what. I’ve been looking forward to hanging my laundry outside again – the machines are in the … Continue reading Laundry and Towels That Dry

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Packing for War

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Here’s all the loot a Greet thinks she needs to go off to war for four-and-a-half days.  The trick here is to pack in loads that I can manage to carry.  If anyone has any additional suggestions, PLEASE feel free to comment – I’ve camped before, but never in such cool temperatures, and of course, I’ve never been to An Event. GARBEmbroidered undertunicWhite muslin undertunicPlaid kirtleBrown sleevesGreen dress with laceJan’s black cotehardieJan’s white chemise Didn’t useJan’s pants Didn’t useGreen smocked Italian dress Didn’t useRussian cloak & hood Slept underKnitted chaperone Big hitRose stockings & ribbon garters, legwarmersUnmentionables, five days worthBelt … Continue reading Packing for War

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Folding Chairs Through The Ages

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Look here. "the folding stool as a ceremonial chair developed in two ways: one secular, and the other ecclesiastical. the makeup of the roman ‘sella curulis’ assumes, through the longobard ‘sella plicatilis’ in steel, the form of the carolingian ‘faldistorium’. here we notice another typological alteration. the crossed legs are frontal instead of being placed laterally. this was to emphasize the crossing ‘X’ – structure which became a symbol of authority. the most emblematic example is the throne of dagobert I, king of the franconians." Continue reading Folding Chairs Through The Ages