Great Western War XIII
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Archery • Baking • Bardic • Beading • Belly Dance • Bookbinding • Braiding • Brewing • Buttons • Casting,Metal • Carving • Chain Knitting • Chainmaille • Chatelaine • Cheese Making • Coaching • Contests • Cooking • Courtly Arts • Cross Stitch • Culture • Dance • Design • Divination • Drumming • Dyeing • Embroidery • Equestrian • Feasts • Felting • Fiber Arts • Garb • Games • History • Jewelry • Knitting • Kumihimo • Language • Lapidary • Leather Working • Metal Working • Music • Naalbinding • Newcomer • OfficerClasses • Persona • Patterns, Sewing • Performance • Poetry • Rapier • Scribal Arts • Sewing • Singing • Society Skills • Spinning • Unarmored Combat • Weaving • Webwright • Wood Working • Youth Combat
Class, Workshop, or Demonstration? What's That?
- A Class is primarily a sit-down, structured lesson where the student's main activities are watching, listening, and taking notes.
- A Workshop is designed to give students hands-on participation in learning a technique or skill and often involves making something. Supplies are frequently necessary for workshops.
- A Demonstration focuses on the instructor's actions and instruction, with little or no student hands-on but lots of spectator interest.
Contests
- Early Period Sheep to Shawl - Spin and Weave to Win - hosted by Magistra Astra Christiana Benedict and Mistress Astridr Selr Leifsdottir
- Kingdom's Brewer's Guild of Caid's Multi-Kingdom Brewing Contest
- People's Choice Arts and Sciences Contest Display
- Our Nefarious UFO competition
- Site Favor Display
- WOOL to WHATEVER - On-site Fiber Challenge - hosted by Baroness Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani
Archery
Kyudo, an Ancient Form of Japanese Archery (Class)
Experience the zen form of archery from an accomplished instructor. This class will cover historical information on the Kyudo form and archery in Japan as well as go over the basics of shooting in the kyudo style.
More Information: Length: 2 hour Schedule: Sunday 3-5 pm Location: Archery Range
Aimed at pairing up novice archers with experienced ones. This is designed to allow for coaching through doing. It is a great opportunity to come out and play on the range no matter your skill level!
More Information: Schedule: Friday Morning Location: Archery Range
Baking
See Also: Cooking / FeastsBaking with a Cloche Oven (Class)
Baroness Colette de Montpellier
Want fresh baked bread at war? Well you too can have the sweet smell of baked bread wafting through your encampment, and at a minimal cost to you. Come and learn the technique of baking with a cloche oven and the materials it takes to have your very own period baking utensil.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Sourdough Bread - Maintaning a starter and making rustic bread (Class)
The class will discus the care and feeding of a sourdough start and will mix a batch of bread and cook a previously prepared batch. I will have a brick oven in my camp to be used for the baking of the bread.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: Camp: Raven and Rose Min. students: 2 Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Student should bring: Apron, Hair tie-back
Bardic
See also: PerformanceAdvanced Coaching for Creative People (Workshop)
Even though we are the Society of "Creative" Anachronisms, the creative process is something that we
sometimes take for granted. Having someone who you can bounce ideas off, listen to you, or offer suggestions
is great. Having a framework for doing this is even better!
If you are a performer, artisan, or person with an artistic bend, this is the class for you. Or if you
want to support the performer or artist in your life, it is a great way to get your feet wet.
In this class, THL "True" Thomas Whitehart will demonstrate some of the key principles in creative coaching, the
do's and do nots, and some ways that we can help each other bring our art to new levels.
This class works for both sides of the mentor/apprentice relationship. Bring examples of your work, if you
like, some things that currently thinking about and come have some fun!
THL Thomas Whitehart (aka True Thomas the Storyteller) is a professional entertainer/coach, and the techniques
used in the class are considered very useful in the creative industries today. In class I'll demonstrate w volunteers,
and if we have time, teach some basics to get your started. Personal topics will NOT be discussed outside of class
(what is shared in class, stays in class)
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Advanced Location: A&S Area Min. students: 4 Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 and up. Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, notes on projects or pieces being worked on. If you are part of a duo, both should have something to share.
Fyrecrawling 101, the art of being a wandering performer (Workshop)
You've seen them ... those brave souls who wander from fire to fire, entertaining as in days of yore,
and having a grand time doing it. YOU CAN TOO! You've always thought about doing it, or have done some, but
you want to tweak your game. Have no fear - a workshop is here!
This workshop is in two parts. A class (day time) and a practical application, where we go to camps
and perform in the evening. But wait, there's more! These camps have agreed to be part of the class, and help
you feel comfortable performing! It will be supportive and instructive.
You'll be learning from THL Thomas Whitehart, a veteran of many a fyrecrawl, and a professional
entertainer, and performance coach. (As True Thomas the Storyteller) and hopefully ... some special guests
will join us!
So ... the firelight invites, and audiences await. Bring your songs, stories, poems, puppets and what
have you, and help keep the bardic tradition going!
Please bring pieces you would like to perform (short ones advisable) and for the evening class, be
prepared for walking at night, in the cool of the evening.
More Information: Length: 1 to ? hours Student Experience Level: Advanced Location: A&S Area & Pre-arranged camps Min. students: 5 Max. students: 20 Minimum age of students: All under age students must have a guardian during evening session. Class fee: None Student should bring: Pen, paper for day. Evening, comfortable walking shoes, warm clothes, flashlight, walking stick, and performing materials
Open Music Rehearsal (Workshop)
Come joing your fellow musicians for and hour of playing period and period-style music! All period and almost-period instruments are welcome. Depending on interest we will have a variety of music to read through, or we can just 'jam'. If there's something you've got some music you've been wanting to try out feel free to bring it (and some copies) too. Come make music!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Intermediate & Advanced Location: To Be Determined (Check at A&S info) Min. students: 2 Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: No minimum as long as the youth can read music and play their instrument Class fee: None Student should bring: Enthusiasm and singing voice
Join the current Bard of Caid in learning some favorite songs in praise and honor of our wonderful kingdom of Caid. These are songs you've probably heard around the campfire or being sung by roving groups after dark or as the fighters march off to the field - and they were written by the bards of our kingdom for everyone to enjoy. So come leanr them and sing with us! All past, current, and future bards are also welcome to come help teach their own favorite songs of Caid.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: To Be Determined (Check at A&S info) Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 14 Class fee: None Student should bring: Enthusiasm and singing voice
Voice for Beginners (Workshop)
Lady Sadb ingen Abner ui Lorccaint
How can a singer hold such a long note, hit such a high note, or be heard at the back of the hall? In this class you will learn the basics of how the muscles of singing work. We will do a variety of exercises that, with practice, will build breath control, range, tone, and strength helpful for both singing and field heraldry. We will also talk a bit about basic stage presence.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area & Pre-arranged camps Min. students: 5 Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Student should bring: Personal voice recorders encouraged.
Writing a Sonnet in the style of The Bard (Workshop)
Lady Sadb ingen Abner ui Lorccaint
Just a simple little Shakespearean Sonnet? Hidden in a deceptively simple form for fourteen lines of iambic pentameter is a carefully structured argument and conclusion. The exercise of constructing your own sonnet is sure stretch your language and reasoning skills. Are you up for the challenge?
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area & Pre-arranged camps Min. students: 3 Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: High School age Class fee: None Student should bring: Personal voice recorders encouraged.
Beading
See Also: JewelryBeginning Beaded Jewelry (Workshop)
Lady Dalphina Delacroix and Lady Muirgen na Faillglas
Learn how to make beautiful beaded jewelry with natural stone beads. Learn how to use modern components to achieve a medieval look. Each student will take home a bracelet or pair of earrings.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: all ages welcome Class fee: None
Beginning Roman/Byzantine Looped Link Jewelry (Workshop)
Comptese Albra Katerine Isabel Bautista, OL, OP
Student will learn basic late Roman to Early Byzantine looped link jewelry technique by making a bracelet and a pair of earrings.
More Information: Length: 3 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $25.00 Includes: Handouts, 12" of 24 gauge sterling silver or gold-filled wire, 6" of 20 gauge wire, 12 gemstones, 12 pearls Available at: Guzel Mercazi on Merchants Row Student should bring: Small needle-nose pliers, diagonal cutter, round-nose pliers
Paternosters as Timing Devices (Workshop)
THL Catharine Hawkwod da Barbiano
Make a paternoster and learn how to use it as a period timer. Class will include a brief history of how this type of prayer bead came to be used throughout Western Europe. Research paper on the topic will also be available.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $3 Includes: Handouts: Research paper (optional) will be available at cost. Will not exceed $3. Kit fee: $15 Includes: Beads, cording, thread for tassles. Students are encouraged to bring favorite site tokens to use as end pieces or pilgrim badges. Teacher will have end pieces available at additional cost if students wish to purchase them. Alternately, students may contact the teacher for a materials list and bring their own components. Available at: Unicorn Fiber Arts, on Merchants Row Student should bring: Students are encouraged to bring favorite site token(s) or similar dangling jewelry bits to use as end pieces or pilgrim badges. (Optional) Reading glasses; bead holes can be small.
Viking Beads - Festoons and Necklaces (Workshop)
Make a paternoster and learn how to use it as a period timer. Class will include a brief history of how this type of prayer bead came to be used throughout Western Europe. Research paper on the topic will also be available.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 6 Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $5 Includes: Glass, wood and metal beads. Tigertail (steel wire with plastic coating) for stringing, with ring ends for festoons or toggle clasps for necklaces.
Belly Dance
See: Dance • Drumming • Fyrecrawling 101 • PerformanceBookbinding
Baroness Lynnette de Sandoval del Valle de los Unicornios, OP
Students will make a book from scratch. Absolutely no experience at anything is required for this class!
We'll start with paper, cardboard, thread, and fabric and create a 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" book with 20 pages.
We'll be doing a little sewing, some cutting, and a lot of gluing ... basically it's that simple!
All materials will be provided, BUT students can bring handmade paper for the pages (up to 10 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11"),
marbled paper (2 sheets 8" x 10 1/2") for the end sheets, and/or hand dyed fabric (14 1/2" x 10 1/2") for the cover if
they wish. (HINT: Paper making, marbling, and dyeing are all classes that are planned for GWW.)
If students want to dye the fabric from their class kit, they can buy the kit (that they'll use in class) from the
Unicorn Fiber Arts merchant booth any day before the class.
More Information: Length: 3 hours Student Experience Level: Any Location: A&S Area Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: Old enough to follow complex directions, handle a needle, and deal with cutting and folding to exact sizes. Class fee: $15 Includes: Handouts & Everything needed to make a book: Fabric and cardboard for covers, bookbinding tape (drawn thread), paper for pages, and decorated paper for end sheets, linen thread, needle, glue, waxed paper, rubber bands. Additional kits will be available for the same price in class and at the Unicorn Fiber Arts merchants booth. Student should bring: Paper & pen
Braiding
See: KumihimoBrewing
See Also: Cooking / Feasts
Brewers Meet and Greet (Workshop)
The Brewers Meet and Greet is a chance to meet brewers of all skill levels from across the Known World. Come and talk about your latest of beer, mead, wine, cordial, liqueur, cider, hippocras, soda, syrup, sekanjabin or vinegar. Come and taste a variety of hand-crafted beverages.
More Information: Length: 4 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: Over 18 are welcome to attend. Students must be 21 or older to sample alcoholic beverages. Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, Tasting glass
Introduction to Making Cordials & Liqueurs (Workshop)
Learn how to make, bottle and present various cordials and liqueurs. All are welcome to attend.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: Over 18 are welcome to attend. Students must be 21 or older to sample alcoholic beverages. Class fee: None Includes: Handouts Student should bring: Paper & pen, Tasting glass
Watering the Troops off and on the field (Class)
Class on several different types of beverages that are easy to make and store for war. Class will give recipes for Oxymel,short mead and grog. It will give the recipes and the historic revelance to the Current Middle Ages. I will provide enough handouts for 10 people.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 5 Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 21 w/ID Class fee: None
Casting, Metal
See Also: Jewelry Metal WorkingA hands-on workshop making molds out of sand and filling them with molten pewter, creating a button-like or token-like charm. I will provide objects to be cast, pewter, sand and tools for finishing items. Items cast during workshop will be sent home with students.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $3 Includes: Pewter and sand for casting. Fee is only charged if cast item is kept. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Hair tie-back
Carving
See Also: Jewelry • Lapidary • Wood WorkingLearn period background on intaglio carvings, then learn techniques using modern tools and make your own intaglio carving in a cabochon or early-period ring stone.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $2 Includes: ring stone to work and wire for setting Kit fee: $3 Includes: Cabachons if needed Student should bring: Safety glasses, Hair tie-back, Dremel or other rotary tool
Intermediate Intaglio Carving (Workshop)
Learn more detailed period background on intaglio carvings, then learn more advanced techniques for sculpting complex figures. You will make your own intaglio carving in a cabochon or early-period ring stone based on photos of an actual period intaglio.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: 12 with parent/guardian permission (using small power tools with fine-grit sanding bits) Class fee: $2 Includes: Handouts, and ring-stone and wire for setting Kit fee: $3 Includes: Cabachons if needed Student should bring: Paper & pen, Safety glasses, Hair tie-back, Own tools if available
Introduction to Chip Carving (Class)
Learn to make elaborate and beautiful carvings with a minimum of tools and a little practice. Chip carving is a fundamental technique that has been used throughout history in all cultures. It is easy to learn, required few tools, and will produce stunning, even complex, results quickly and easily. Possible hands-on but I have limited tools
More Information: Length: 3-4 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner & Intermediate Location: Merchant Booth: WILD HARE WOODWORKS Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen, own tools if available
Chainmaille
See Also: JewelryBeginning Chainmail (Workshop)
Lady Saran mac Duinn and Orion Martyn
You’ve been curious how to make that chainmail shirt/necklace/pouch for ages, but you don’t know where to start. This is the chainmail class for you. You will learn the basic European 4-1 weave and come home with a bracelet or keychain made of that very weave. If students have a set of pliers they are comfortable with they should bring them otherwise pliers will be available.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 18 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: $5 Includes: Handout. aluminum rings, clasp for one bracelet, copies of instructions. Student should bring: two pair needle nose pliers, if possible
Beginning Chainmaille Weaves (Workshop)
Ever looked at a piece of chainmaille and wondered "how do they do that?!" Well come to this beginners class
to get the answer to that question! Basic beginners weaves, European 4-in-1, Byzantine, and Box Weave, will
be taught during this class. Bring two pair of needle nose pliers, and I will provide the aluminum rings for
you to start these three chains. Copies of instructions will be given out for you to take with you. Questions
after the class? Come to my merchant space (Bucky Stuffe) for any help you need.
I will provide enough aluminum rings to finish one average size bracelet, and to start the other two
weaves so you have samples to take home. I will also provide a lobster claw clasp or toggle clasp so you can
wear your bracelet that day.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 7 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: $2 Includes: Rings, closures for bracelets or split rings for keychains. Student should bring: Own tools if available
Weaving Metal-The Age-old Art of Chainmaille (Class)
Now that you’ve learned the basics to chainmailling, expand your horizons with some Intermediate -
Advanced weaves, and projects. Build off of the basics and give your chainmaille designs a creative finished
look. The possibilities are endless to all that can be created in the age-old art in weaving metal.
Helpful tips will be included such as Tool dressing, Proper positioning of pliers to lesson fatigue,
as well as creating snag-free seams. Each workshop will include a kit for the desired project of each student.
Kits include a canvas drawstring pouch, instructions/resource list, and enough jumprings for the completion of
each project.
Materials: To provide the highest quality level in craftsmanship, saw-cut aluminum jumprings will be provided
in each kit to ensure that the closures of each jumpring will be flush and will also aid the student in
mastering snag-free seams.
Note: Individual Tools and supplies that compliment the workshops will be available for purchase.
Students must bring their own Chain Nose Pliers if they already have them. A few pair will be on hand
for loan during the workshop.
Since the workshop will be taught in the Merchant booth students may stay to work on projects and
receive additional help if needed provided that there is enough space for the next scheduled workshop.
These workshops build off one another, so it is advisable that the student complete the Intermediate
level first before moving onto the Advanced. Students with prior experience will be able to take the advanced
workshops provided they know Beginner and Intermediate weaves.
Workshop Descriptions
Intermediate Workshop: Prerequisite: Students must know the basic European 4-in-1 pattern.
In this workshop you will learn Intermediate level chains and create a bracelet. Students will be allowed to
choose one of three patterns:
Jens Pind, Roundmaille, or the Turkish Round weave. Each student will also learn helpful tips in dressing
tools, proper positioning of pliers in hands, and closing jumprings with snag-free seams.
Advanced: Prerequisite: Intermediate Workshop should be taken first, or should have previous
experience the European 4-in-1 pattern and at least one weave listed in the Intermediate Workshop.
In these two workshops you will be able to expand the many possibilities in the Art of chainmaille,
creating a candle holder, or a drawstring pouch. The projects that will be taught in these two workshops will
require the combining of different weaves as well as expansion and reduction.
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These classes are taught by professional Silversmith, Jamie Santellano. She traveled to Ireland to
learn her craft by Brian Clarke, Master Silversmith, and currently studies with James Reddington, Jewelry
Designer.
Due to Jamie’s passion for Old World textures she has had the opportunity to have one-on-one training
with Chainmaille Guru, “Spider,” of Spiderchain.com.
Bringing both art and expertise, Jamie will provide professional skill levels in chainmaille for both
Intermediate and Advanced Workshops.
More Information:
Length: 3-4 hours
Student Experience Level: Intermediate & Advanced
Location: Merchant Booth: Handmade Wearable Art By Jamie Santellano
Min. students: 3
Max. students: 12
Minimum age of students: 12 years of age
Class fee: $12-$16
Includes: All kits have handouts of instructions, and a resource list. The fee includes the handouts,
and materials in a kit for the project to be completed in each workshop.
The kit for the Intermediate Workshop will include materials needed for the project to be completed such as jumprings, clasps, and a drawstring pouch.
The kit for the Advanced Workshops will include materials needed for the project to be completed such as jumprings, cord, and a drawstring pouch.
Kits available: at the Handmade Wearable Art By Jamie Santellano. I'm unaware of any other suppliers at this time.
Student should bring: Paper & pen, Hair tie-back, Chain Nose Pliers if they have them otherwise I will have a few pair on hand for loan during the class, and a camera.
Cheese Making
See Also: Cooking / FeastsBasic Cheese - Whole Milk Mozzarella (Workshop)
The class will discus the basics of cheese-making, the use of the rennet enzyme, and go through the process of making Mozzarella cheese. Handout will be provided.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, Apron, Hair tie-back
Cooking / Feast
See Also: Baking • Brewing • Cheese Making
We are working to co-ordinate the creation of a kitchen for the culinary arts area,
if you would like to be a part of this endeavor please email
arts
caid-gww.org
Introduction to Redaction (Workshop)
Trying to cook form period recipes can be intimidating. Weird spelling, lack of amounts, and vague or confusing instructions can frustrate even the most seasoned cooks. In this class, we will discuss some of the issues involved in translating a period recipe to food on the table. Students will then try ther hands at producing food from a period recipe, and the class will conclude with tasting and discussing each others efforts.
More Information: Length: 3 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: Targeted to adults Class fee: $6 Includes: Handout. Food and consumables as necessary to make one or two dishes. Student should bring: Closed toed shoes, Hair tie-back Apron, Own tools if available.
Mistress Adelicia of Caithness, OP
Marmalade is the period spread for your bread. Learn how to make this tasty treat. Participants will have the chance to taste other jams, jellies, spreads and marmalades. Everyone gets to take home a jar of marmalade.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: Camp: Kin of Caithness Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $3 Includes: Handout. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Closed toed shoes, Hair tie-back, Apron
Organizing Your First Feast (Class)
Ever wanted top be a "Feastocrat" but didn't know where to start? Are you intimidated by the idea of cooking for a large crowd? This class is designed to offer a working "check list" to organize and put on a feast of several removes and give you the confidence to feed large numbers of people successfully.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: N/A Class fee: None Includes: Handouts. Instructor will provide checklist "template" to copy at home. Student should bring: Paper & pen
Courtly Arts
The Courtly Art of Compliments (Class)
A brief overview of the origin and history of Courtly love, and an explanation of how to use courtly love principles to create period-style compliments for use in the SCA and how to deal with being complimented. We will look at period ideas about the role of the suitor and the role of the courtly love object and will discuss how these ideas can be applied to complimenting and being complimented in the modern SCA. Also included will be a brief discussion of "when handkissers attack" that covers modes of dealing politely with unwelcome attentions. A handout will be provided.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Culture
See Also: LanguageHlaefdige Cynehild Cynesigesdohtor
Curious about the Gothic language? You should be, it's awesome! Unlike Survival Anglo-Saxon, this class will be focused more on language than on culture. As well as language basics, we'll cover the alphabet and what we know of Gothic names, clothing, and society. The Goths have gotten a bad name over the years, come learn the truth!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $1 Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Dance
See Also: Drumming • Fyrecrawling 101 • PerformancePersian Court Dance (Workshop)
Persian court dance - look like a Persian miniature come to life!
This class will cover the basics of footwork, and arm gestures, as well as differentiating Persian
dance from belly dance. A DVD will be included so you can practice at home!
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 12-ish Class fee: $7 Includes: DVD to practice at home
Tribal Style Belly Dance Basics (Workshop)
Learn the fundamental techniques of this beautiful and earthy art form. Based on the folkloric movements of Egypt, Turkey, Spain, & India, Tribal is a unique style of belly dance, allowing all women of any age, shape, & culture to connect with each other. Using a vocabulary of movement and a system of cues, we can create a spontaneous dance together. Students will be learning a dance language shared by thousands of women around the world.
This workshop will focus on:
* Form & Posture
* The 4 Basic Fast Movements
* Learning to Follow & Lead
* Group Structure & Dynamics
All levels of dance experience are welcome!
Hair must be up off of your shoulders. Full skirts are encouraged but not required.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Student should bring: Hair tie-back
Design
See Also: Fiber ArtsPeriod Design, or Why doesn't my widget look like the widgets in the book? (Class)
Have you ever wondered why your cool stuff doesn't quite look like you thought it should? Are you trying to figure out what would make your stuff looke more medieval and less modern? This class will take a look at the differences between the modern eye and the medieval eye and some common mistakes that people make when designing items for the Current Middle Ages. Discussion will be broadly applicable to most art forms although examples will be biased toward textile items (because that's what I know!); depending on time we may also discuss where to find design inspirations. Please feel free to bring design questions or ideas you wish to discuss.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Divination
This class will cover various period divination practices utilizing the parts of the body. Ever wonder what the lines on your hand or your forehead told about you? Does that growl in your stomach mean money coming your way? Do freckles mean you’re sneaky? Come and find out. NOTE: Though period models of divination will be shown and discussed, actual "divination" will not take place.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 3 Max. students: 50 Minimum age of students: 15 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Themselves and a willingness to learn
History of Divination in Western Europe - An Overview (Class)
This class will be an overview of different forms of divination found in Western Europe from the Roman Empire to the end of Elizabeth I's reign. Culture, science, and philosophy are only a few of the details that will be explored. NOTE: Though period models of divination will be shown and discussed, actual "divination" will not take place.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 4 Max. students: 50 Minimum age of students: 15 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Themselves and a willingness to learn
Drumming
See also: Dance • Fyrecrawling 101 • PerformanceTribal Drumming I: The Basics! (Workshop)
Learn the "secrets" of drumming around the fire. This workshop will teach the basics of drumming,
from a drum circle jam to a fireside performance. Learn how to create and maintain a groove between
any number of drummers.
Tribal Drumming I : The Basics focuses on:
1) Holding the drum, and proper posture.
2) The three basic strikes.
3) Three basic and popular rhythms.
4) Communication between drummers.
5) Drumming etiquette.
Any drum, from doumbek to djembe, from frame drum to tambourine, will work for this workshop.
Grab yours and join us!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner & Intermediate Location: A&S Area Min. students: 4 Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $5 Includes: A 12 page handout detailing and expanding upon the class topics.
Tribal Drumming II: Happy Dancers! (Workshop)
Everyone loves dancers! And dancers love good drummers! Learn the tricks of the trade and get the dancers
up and laughing.
Tribal Drumming II : Happy Dancers focuses on:
1) Holding a steady groove to provide a framework for Tribal Belly Dancers.
2) Two advanced striking techniques.
3) Two popular dance rhythms.
4) Communication between drummers and dancers.
5) Performance etiquette.
Any drum, from doumbek to djembe, from frame drum to tambourine, will work for this workshop.
Grab yours and join us!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner & Intermediate Location: A&S Area Min. students: 4 Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $5 Includes: A 12 page handout detailing and expanding upon the class topics.
Dyeing
See Also: Fiber Arts • SpinningDust Dyeing with Un-Natural Dyes (Workshop)
This method uses Cushings brand synthetic dye on protein fibers - yarn or roving. A steel steam
tray over burners with vinegar laced water holds the fiber, the dye colors are dusted onto the fiber with
salt shakers to produce a mottled, multi-colored yarn or roving. I taught this at the last Griffin Dye
Retreat and it seemed to go over quite well.
Wool or angora goat are easy to dye, silk takes a little futzing but can be done. Blends of wool and
silk will behave differently than plain wool – silk may take more dye or get too warm and not accept it well.
Wool/bamboo will look frosted. Pure silk needs a lower temperature and some massaging to get the dye into the
fiber but the results are worth the work.
I have not tried fabric and would consider at most a scarf or small object - no more than 6 oz dry
CLEAN fiber, yarn or fabric. Raw or incompletely scoured wool will not be accepted. Silk may have a strong
fish smell and I will have a bucket of water with some orvus to help with that since it’s impossible to spot
before the silk gets wet.
The colors are usually jewel tones, rich and complex and some mixes may sound strange. Some beautiful
blends I have seen are:
- Rust / forest green / indigo blue / golden brown
- Rust / violet / magenta / orange / scarlet
- Seal brown / peacock / golden brown
- Violet / peacock / peridot green
- Indigo blue / violet / magenta
- Scarlet / orange / magenta
I have done this in my kitchen without gloves or a dust mask and have not gotten sick, all of my cats have also lived to a ripe old age and shown no ill effects. I have been doing this for over twenty years and it seems safe enough for a hobbyist.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 20 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $5 Includes: Handouts. A good selection of dyes will be prepared ahead of time in salt shakers. If we run out of a color and want to use something else I will have dyes with me. I will have several buckets with cold water, vinegar and one with some Orvus if someone's silk seems not quite clean but this will not be enough for unscoured wool. Student should bring: Hair tie-back, Apron, CLEAN protein fiber roving or yarn. Blends can work. Rubber gloves are nice
Mordants for Natural Dyes (Workshop)
Baroness Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani, OL, OP
Explore the 4 basic medieval dye mordants: alum, copper, iron and tin. Find out what these mineral salts do to enhance or even change natural dye colors. Learn the ancient but still effective alum-tannin-alum mordant technique for that cellulose fiber (cotton, linen, hemp, ramie). Samples of wool, silk, cotton, linen fibers available to dye and take home, as well as some of the “new” fibers: bamboo, tencel, soy silk, etc.
More Information: Length: 4 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: Children allowed who will obey orders (mine) Class fee: $5 Includes: Handouts. Student gets use of 4 mordants, several modifiers, dyepots, stoves, butane, and a large collection of sample fibers (fabric, yarn). Mordants for use at home will be available at Unicorn Fiber Arts merchant booth. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Closed toed shoes, Hair tie-back, Apron, Their own fiber if desired: skeins of yarn, small pieces of fabric. NO clothing, no fleece, no large pieces of yardage
Baroness Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani, OL, OP
Create the rich colors seen in medieval illuminations and paintings on fabric and yarn. Dye with various natural colors used down through the ages. Dye color choices to be voted on by students from available natural dye stock, including indigo. We will also use plant material found on the site or brought in by anyone willing to pick at least one pound of said plants.
More Information: Length: 4 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: Children allowed if they obey orders (mine) Class fee: $5 Includes: Handouts. Student has use of dyes, stoves, butane, and sample fibers to dye. Additional dye kits for home use will be available at Unicorn Fiber Arts merchant booth for various prices depending on the contents of kit. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Closed toed shoes, Hair tie-back, Apron, 100% natural fiber: yarn or small pieces of cloth. NO clothing, large piece of yardage, fleece
Pysanky is the Ukrainian tradition of dying eggs using a wax resistance dyeing process. The class will cover both a basic history of the tradition as well as the technique of creating an egg. The students will be supplied with all that they need to create an egg they can take home.
More Information: Length: 4 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: 15 Class fee: $10 Includes: Handout, Eggs, Egg Dyes, Beeswax, stylus, candles and other expendables required for the project. Kit fee: $20 Includes: 3 Stylus, Package of 5 traditional dyes, Beeswax. This cost is in addition to the class fee. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Pencil as we will be sketching on paper and eggs. Apron is optional. You SHOULDN'T get any wax or dye on you but be aware you are working with materials that will ruin clothes if any is spilled.
Embroidery
See also: Fiber ArtsBeginning Embroidered Headbands & Coronets (Workshop)
Comptese Albra Katerine Isabel Bautista, OL, OP
Students will learn basic metal thread and silk techniques typical for 16th century Persian and Turkish style embroidery.
More Information: Length: 3 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $15.00 Includes: Handouts, Kit includes all foundation threads, silks, metal threads, felt background. Available at: Guzel Mercazi on Merchants Row (Handout: $1.00 each) Student should bring: Sewing Kit, Embroidery Kit with 8" inch hoop
Cross Stitch a Needle Book (Workshop)
Baroness Lynnette de Sandoval del Valle de los Unicornios, OP
Tired of not having the correct size needle handy? Can't fit your beading or tapestry needles in your needle case? Fear not! A fabric needlebook will carry a large number on any size compactly! Students will construct a needlebook in class and decorate it with cross stitch embroidery. No prior experience is necessary.
More Information: Length: 3 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 6 Minimum age of students: Old enough to follow directions and handle a needle. Class fee: $10 Includes: Handouts. All material to construct a fabric needlebook: Cross stitch fabric and interfacing for cover, needle, thread, embroidery thread, ribbon, flannel or felt for pages. Additional kits of the same will be available in class or at the Unicorn Fiber Arts merchant booth. Student should bring: Paper & pen, their own tools if they wish.
Easy Decoration for Garb (Workshop)
You will learn how to decorate your garb without that lovely trim you can't afford or years of experience with embroidery. After a discussion of how to use very simple stitches to create a design, you will choose some threads (provided), and produce an easy decoration. Then information on non-embroidered decoration will be gone over, along with techniques, and examples. With limited experience, even T-tunics can be nicely decorated without frustration or breaking the bank.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: 15 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, Embroidery Kit with 6 - 8 inch hoop: a few large eyed embroidery needles, small scissors, a small to medium embroidery hoop if you have one, a pencil, and note paper.
Romanian Couching Stitch, Embroidery (Workshop)
Hate using a metal thimble to sew with? Can't feel your work? Then this is the workshop for you! In this workshop you will see how the stitch is done and you will try it out. You will also see some work done in the stitch. I will have some kits, please bring your embroidery tools, I do have some hoops to use.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate Location: A&S Area Max. students: 15 Minimum age of students: 13 Class fee: $2 Includes: Handout Kit fee: $5 Includes: Handouts, cotton floss, fabric with a flower printed on it. After you are done with the embroidery you can make it into a pincushion. Student should bring: Paper & pen, your embroidery tools with a 4 inch embroidery hoop.
Equestrian
See Also: The Equestrian Activities listings for all of the Equestrian activitiesStable Storytime / Horse 101 (Workshop)
Bring yourself and the children for a combination of read-aloud stories about horses and hands-on horse keeping techniques including grooming, leading, tacking, and feeding horses treats. This activity is specifically designed for people who love horses but do not have their own, are having understandable "horse withdrawal" while on site (who doesn't, right?), or would like to learn more about them.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: EQUESTRIAN ARENA Class fee: None
Felting
See also: Fiber ArtsTHL Courtney of the White Meadow and Lady Kora Aelfbairn
Make a small period cell phone camoflauge device that hangs from your belt: a felted case that can also double as a small purse.
Students can make a cord to hang the purse in a kumihimo class taught by someone else.
More Information: Length:21 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 2 Max. students: 6 Minimum age of students: Any Class fee: None
Learn to felt fleece around a bar of soap to create a "loofah" for the shower.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: Any Class fee: None Student should bring: Rubber gloves if they don't want to get their hands wet
Felting For the Young At Heart (Workshop)
Mistress Katherine of Anglesey
Making a flat patterned felted piece for a pouch or bag.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 6 Minimum age of students: Any Class fee: $5 Includes: Handout Student should bring: Apron
Fiber Arts
See Also: Design • Dyeing • Embroidery • Felting • Garb • Knitting • Naalbinding • Patterns, Sewing • Sewing • Spinning • Weaving
Baroness Arianwen Megan McBride of Arainn
Ever find you just don't have time to knit, crochet or spin, take the time around noon each day to gather and work on your project. This is a great time to get together to chat and work on our continuing projects. Need help? Just want to show off your newest project? Want feed back on your craft? Or just come and chat. This is for you.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Class fee: None Includes: Handouts and materials. Student should bring: Just bring your project and own tools if available.
Games
Period Games and How to Play Them (Workshop)
A class/workshop to give people an opportunity to learn the origin and rules for several period games. Students will have the opportunity to play!
More Information: Length: 1-2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: Merchant Booth: Fish-N-Weasel Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None
Garb
See Also: Embroidery • Fiber Arts • Knitting • Patterns, Sewing • Sewing14th Century Cotehardies (Class)
Do you want to look fabulous in your new cotehardie? Come to this class and learn all the techniques to emulate the 14th century's signature form-fitting dresses. We will discuss a range of basic to advanced techniques and provide inspiration for your beautiful projects!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 0 Class fee: None Includes: Handouts and materials. Student should bring: Paper & pen a test fit coif
Basic Tudor / Elizabethan Coif (Workshop)
The student will learn about period coifs through lecture and handouts. The focus of the class will be how to make a coif that fits the head and hair of the student. I will also discuss how to keep the coif on the head (such as for extra short hair and long hair).We will make a pattern such as in the "Janet Arnold" book on accessories. After the pattern is made a sample coif will be basted together to check for fit. I will discuss the construction and assembly of the undecorated coif. I will discuss various ways of embroidering and decorating the coif which needs to be done before construction. They can expect to leave the class with a paper pattern and a muslin sample.
More Information: Length: 1-2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 5 Max. students: No LImit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $2 Includes: Handouts and materials. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Hair tie-back, Sewing Kit, and muslin or other plain fabric to make a test fit coif
Cesare Vecellio and Venetian Clothing of the 16th Century (Class)
Discussion of Cesare Vecellio's "Habiti Antichi e Moderni" and what makes a Venetian garment so unique in its time and region. This will be mostly focused on female clothing, however if there is interest in male clothing during class it will be open to discussion.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: young adults and up Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Coifs, Kerchiefs and Veils: Things to wear on your head even if you “hate hats!” (Demonstration)
I know, I know: You hate having something on your head - but you are beginning to suspect that you probably should do it anyway. Well, this class is for you. (It’s also for those of you who love hats, and wear them all the time.)
I’ll show you lots of different options of things to wear that will complete your outfit – and just might not make you crazy...
This is a demo. I'll show a couple of ways to do hair, and then whip through linen like a headwear hurricane!
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Easy Dress Construction (Class)
Baroness Muirenn ingen meic Marteunn
Make a dress tailored to your measurements that is very easy. Even a fighter can do it! Can be structured for viking, Irish or Norman.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen, Measuring tape, camera if you want
What is both practical and stylish? What can keep you warm or cool? What keeps the sun out of your eyes and off of your neck? Why, a hood of course! During this class, we will discuss various styles, fabrications and construction methods, and also draft a pattern.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
How to Research Your Garb (Class)
Do you want to make perfectly period appropriate garb? Or at least something that looks completely period? Want some evidence to back up your opinions regarding period techniques? Learn how to spend your time efficiently and research all the materials you need to make the best garb. These techniques work for any time period. I am a lover of all garb, and I will share my tricks for finding and interpreting useful material very quickly.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 0 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Landskneckt Garb and Techniques (Class)
Landskneckt garb gives us so many colorful options! Come and learn where to get started, where to proceed, and where to take your wonderful German garb to the next level. We will discuss tips and techniques and where to go for helpful resources and period examples. material very quickly.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 0 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Very Venerable Veils (Demonstration)
Add that perfect final touch to your ensemble! Ever get into garb and think that something is missing?
Veils are a huge part of daily life in the late middle ages and Renaissance. Come and learn which shape
of veil fit your persona, learn how to wear a veil, and the impact of adding wigs and faux hair to your
veil. We'll examine primary source and tertiary source images and research, as well as a brief discussion
of appropriate fabrics and colors.
We will *not* be discussing middle eastern clothing or dancing veils, this is a European-focussed,
historically accurate, garb accessory class
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Includes: Handouts Student should bring: Paper & pen
Baroness Muirenn ingen meic Marteunn
Easy construction for a coat to your measurements. Even a fighter can do it!
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen, Measuring tape, camera if you want
History
See: Culture • Language • Persona
Jewelry
See Also: Beading • Carving • Casting, Metal • Chainmaille • Lapidary • Metal WorkingEarrings Part 1: Making your own earwires (Workshop)
Learning to make sterling silver earwires. The earwire is the top part of a dangling earring.
More Information:
Length: 1 hour
Student Experience Level: Intermediate
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: 12
Minimum age of students: 12
Class fee: $5
Includes: The class fee includes 22 gauge half-hard sterling silver wire and silk container.
Participants may bring their own wire.
Student should bring: Paper & pen, Own tools if available:(1) set of jewelry making tools recommended.
A limited supply available for class use.
A limited number of jewelry making tools will be available for the class. Participants are encouraged to
bring their own.
Jewelry tool sets can be purchased at Jo-ann Fabric and Michaels for $6.00 to $10.00
Metal files will be provided for class use.
Kits / Supplies supplier: Tools: Jo-ann Fabric and Michaels. Wire: Bead Stores
Earrings Part 2: Making a pair of sterling silver and pearl earrings (Workshop)
Learning to make a pair of earrings from pearls and sterling silver. The class will assemble a set of pierced earrings.
More Information:
Length: 1 hour
Student Experience Level: Intermediate
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: 12
Minimum age of students: 12
Class fee: $10
Includes: The class fee includes 24 gauge sterling silver head pins, 26 gauge sterling silver wire
and assorted beads in glass and semi-precious stone. A silk container will also be provided.
Student should bring: Paper & pen, Own tools if available:(1) set of jewelry making tools recommended.
A limited supply available for class use.
A limited number of jewelry making tools will be available for the class. Participants are encouraged
to bring their own.
Students should bring their own earwires. Earwires will be taught in the Earrings Part 1 course (the previous
hour). Earwires may also be purchased at craft store and bead stores.
A limited number of jewelry making tools will be available for the class to use. Participants are
encouraged to bring their own tools. Jewelry tool sets can be purchased at Jo-ann Fabric, Michaels and
Bead stores, for $6.00 to $10.00 a piece. Also recommend are a bead reamer and metal files (also available
at Jo-anns, Michaels and Bead stores.
Metal files will be provided for class use.
Kits / Supplies supplier: Tools: Jo-ann Fabric and Michaels. Wire: Bead Stores
Simple Silversmithing (Workshop)
Learn the basics of working in silver, making a bezel setting for cabachons, to use as a pendant or ring.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 8 Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: $10 Includes: Silver sheet, bezel or gallery wire, ring wire Kit fee: $3 Includes: Cabachons if needed Student should bring: Hair tie-back
Viking Chain Knitting 101 (Class)
Learn the ancient art of Viking Chain Knitting, also known as trichinopoly. This is a hands on class and you should emerge with a length suitable for a bracelet.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 6 Minimum age of students: Adults only Class fee: $5 Includes: Wire, dowel, color handout Kit fee: $3 Includes: Cabachons if needed Student should bring: Bring needle nose pliers and wire cutters if you have them.
Knitting
See also: Fiber Arts • NaalbindingBeginning Knitting Part I (Class)
Have you been wanting to learn to knit but didn't know where to start? Are you a beginning knitter but
patterns seem to be written in Martian code? Has it been too many years to admit since you knitted and
need a refresher course? Come join us for Beginning Knitting Part I! This is a hands-on class where we
will learn a simple cast on, knit stitch, purl stitch and simple cast off. Believe it or not, these are
the basics by which all knitting patterns are created. We will also explain and decode the most common
knitting abbreviations used in American patterns.
If you don't know what K1, K2 tog, psso means, you need this class!
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: Adults (children 8 years and up if the child is able to focus, follow directions and is accompanied by an adult) Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, straight 12" knitting needles size 8, scissors, and a skein (of at least 2 oz) in “worsted weight” (aka size 4 – the yarn store can help you select this) wool preferred, but acrylic is okay)
Beginning Knitting Part II (Class)
Are you getting tired of knitting scarves and want to branch out to something with more shape?
Come join us for Beginning Knitting Part II! This is a hands-on class where we will learn increases,
decreases, simple ribbing and de-mystify the cable stitch. Time permitting, we will also cover eyelets,
buttonholes and other commonly used knitting skills.
If you don't know a moss stitch or a double moss stitch, you need this class!
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate & Advanced Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: Adults (children 8 years and up if the child is able to focus, follow directions and is accompanied by an adult) Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, straight 12" knitting needles size 8, cable needle, stitch markers, scissors, and a skein (of at least 2 oz) in “worsted weight” (aka size 4 – the yarn store can help you select this) wool preferred, but acrylic is okay)
Knitted Hooded Mantles (Class)
Mistress Adelicia of Caithness, OP
This class will teach you how to knit a hooded mantle, the newest fashion accessory for the well-dressed
Caidan. You need basic knitting skills to complete this project. Any questions can be directed to
Mistress Adelicia of Caithness at CKeen022655aol.com
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate & Advanced Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: As long as the students have a rudimentary knowledge of knitting, I don't care how old they are. Class fee: None Student should bring: Yarn, 24" circular knitting needles appropriate to the weight of the yarn, 8 stitch markers and paper and pencil for taking notes. Directions for the hooded mantle will be provided.
Kumihimo
See also: Fiber ArtsYou now know how to do Japanese Braiding. Now let's start playing and making our own patterns. Supplies will be provided to design your own pattern and try them out. 16 thread patterns will be our starting point, but we will use more threads if needed, and make a disc to handle more threads. This is an intermediate class, but beginners will be welcome.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Intermediate Location: A&S Area Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Includes: Handouts, Kumihimo disc pattern, foam and cardboard backing material, glue, thread, weights, bobbins. Student should bring: Scissors to cut foam, card board and thread.
Language
See Also: CultureHlaefdige Cynehild Cynesigesdohtor
Recently arrived to the land of the Englisc? Pick up some quick tips and survival phrases to fit in! The class will cover the dress, customs, and (very briefly) the language of 8-11th C. Anglo-Saxon England. Time-permitting we will also cover: naming conventions, armor, and crafts.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $1 Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Lapidary
See Also: Carving • JewelryDrop-in Lapidary Workshop and Roundtable (Workshop)
Lady Rekon of Saaremaa and Lady Rutilia Fausta and THL Cynthia de Wickersham
Bring your interesting rocks and ideas and talk with us, or try your hand at shaping stones (yours or ours, we'll have some for you to try working with) using a water-cooled flat lap wheel setup. We will have some resources to share.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Hair tie-back, Safety glasses, Their own stones for shaping, if desired
Period Gems & Gemology (Class)
An over-view of period gems and gemology and the beliefs associated with gemstones in Roman-Medieval times.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 5 Max. students: 10 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Leather Working
Made to fit Leather Thimbles (Workshop)
Hate using a metal thimble to sew with? Can't feel your work? Then this is the workshop for you! In this workshop you will lern how to make one leather thimble for one finger of your choosing. If you can bring some scissors that would be a big help, the sharper the better.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 15 Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: $2 Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen, scissors, the sharper the better.
Metal Working
See: Casting, Metal • Chainmaille • JewelryMusic
See: BardicNaalbinding
See Also: • Fiber Arts • KnittingBegining Naalbinding: The Oslo Stitch (Class)
Naalbinding is, essentially, using a single needle to form loops of fiber to create fabric. It's a very
ancient technique, arguably predating spindle spinning, and is found across the world in various fibers
and put to various uses. While it is most commonly associated with Scandinavian cultures, it is found
throughout SCA period across Europe.
Workshop will include naalbinding needles and a modern, commercial yarn to work with, written,
historical overview, in-workshop library, and post-workshop availability for further hands on work and
networking. The cost for the packet will be $7, or $1, if the student brings their own needle and yarn.
Scissors would be a good idea, too.
This is a flexible workshop, as it is a very portable craft. If small children need to attend
WITH parent or guardian, they can, providing they are relatively well behaved. Part of the fun of this
textile art, is how portable and "in the gap" friendly it is.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: Age 14 and up. Will allow younger, with recommendation or companioned by an adult. Class fee: $1 Includes: Handout (Covers printing fees, will work as a bibliography for student to pursue their own research and documentation.) Kit fee: $5 Includes: Naalbinding needle, commercial wool yarn. Student should bring: Own tools if available: Scissors, commercial wool yarn, as close to worsted as you can get. There will be needles for borrowing, or the student can bring their own needle, either the largest tapestry needle or yarn needle they can find.
Officer Classes
THL Luce Antony Venus, Society Chatelaine
Join the Society Chatelaine and learn why growth is good, why everything you think you know about recruiting just might be wrong, and what really works when you’re trying to keep newcomers engaged. This class is designed for chatelaines, aspiring chatelaines, and any member of the populace who is interested in learning about how they can help with recruitment and retention of new members.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 years or older Class fee: None
How to Be an Effective Chatelaine 101 (Class)
THL Luce Antony Venus, Society Chatelaine
Join the Society Chatelaine and learn the basics of being a Chatelaine; How to be effective at personal contact, how to plan a successful demo, how to create activities to integrate newcomers into your group. This class is designed for those who currently hold the office of chatelaine or aspire to the position. More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 years or older Class fee: None
How to Be and Effective Chatelaine 102 (Class)
THL Luce Antony Venus, Society Chatelaine
Join the Society Chatelaine for an advanced class on the art of being an effective chatelaine. Learn how to focus your attitude and focus your effort to build a successful recruitment and retention program for your local group. Learn some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them. Learn what is most effective at not only attracting newcomers but encouraging them to keep playing. This class is designed for those who already hold the office of Chatelaine or aspire to. THE 101 CLASS IS NOT REQUIRED. THERE ARE NO PREREQUISITES.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 years or older Class fee: None
The SCA and your Modern Resume (Class)
The intent is to see how you can incorporate your activities in the SCA to your modern resume. This is a roundtable conversation so bring your resume and writing equipment.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, Resume if they have one
Webwright Workshop (Roundtable)
Lord Gregor MacDonald, Kingdom Webwright
A place to discuss your questions and concerns about being a Webwright.
More Information: Length: 1-2 hours Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: 18 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen, Copy of Kingdom Webwright's Handbook
Patterns, Sewing
See Also: Garb • SewingA demonstration of drape patterning for a sloper will be performed, followed up by a hands-on workshop where the class will be drape patterning. I will be teaching techniques, tips, and secrets to patterning successfully. This is very interactive, the more questions you bring the more everyone will learn.
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: young adults and up Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Learn to measure quickly and accurately to assure proper garment fit. In addition to the necessary tools, we will discuss the basics of pattern drafting, garment ease, fit issues and flattering the body within style constraints. You will go home with a new appreciation for tailors -- and blank measurement charts to copy for future use!
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Includes: Handouts Student should bring: Paper & pen
So, now you know how to measure somebody (Measuring for Fit), now what? Here you'll learn the basics of how to translate a chart full of measurements into something useful! In addition, we will discuss garment ease, fit issues and flattering the body within style constraints.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
Seeing the Period Garment in the Modern Day Commercial Pattern (Class)
Can't find a pattern for a sideless surcoat or a chemise? Don't want to pay 40 plus dollars for drawstring fighter pants? Well come and see the patterns you want in patterns you can buy from the thrift store for $.25. I'll explain that there are only so many shapes that clothes are made from and how to find them in patterns.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Min. students: 5 Max. students: No Limit Class fee: $2 Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Persona
This class is intended to give the new or relatively new SCA participant assistance with developing a basic persona. For those who may already have a basic persona developed this is the opportunity to start "fleshing out" what they already have.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Persona Opportunities in the Crusades (Class)
This class will help develop personas based during the Crusade period. The class will focus on the activities of a day to day nature at various points between 1080 and 1300. A variety of locations and years will be discussed with an eye on developing a persona within them. Political situations, garb, professions, and equipment for each location will be discussed.
More Information: Length: 2+ hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: Camp: Barony of Drieburgen Max. students: No limit Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Performance
Music
See: BardicRapier
Come and learn the ins and outs of a rapier bout. Enhance your understanding and enjoyment of art of the rapier. See wild monkeys dance for your amusement.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: N/A Class fee: None Student should bring: N/A
Scribal Arts
Baroness Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani, OL, OP
Medieval artists used natural earth oxides and dye extracts to create beautiful pigments for painting on wood and parchment. These stable, long-lasting paints are easy to create from gum arabic and egg. Also learn about medieval copybooks, so even if those who don't know how to draw can produce beautiful period pieces. All materials provided.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 12 Minimum age of students: Any age accepted if they can follow directions Class fee: $5 Includes: Handouts. Use of earth oxides, dye extracts, egg, gum arabic, brushes, grinding plates and mullers, brush rest. Pigments for home use will be available at Unicorn Fiber Arts merchant booth. Student should bring: Paper & pen, Hair tie-back, Bring own #1 to #000 brushes if available, any illumination examples if desired
Sewing
See Also: Embroidery • Fiber Arts • Garb • Patterns, Sewing14th Century Cloth Buttons (Class)
Learn to make 14th century cloth buttons to accent all of your favorite cotehardies and hoods. These buttons are so useful, and this is a project you can do anywhere. If you would like to participate in your own button making on the spot, you can bring some materials and get right to work.
More Information: Length: 1 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: all ages Class fee: None Student should bring: Sewing Kit
All fabrics currently available to the modern tailor will be discussed with a particular emphasis on periodicity, strengths and weaknesses, and tricks to working with them. The fiber itself will be discussed in detail along with the various fabric weaves they can be (and are typically) used in. Also we will discuss how to tell what fabric you are really looking at despite the shop owner telling you "100% silk!!"
More Information: Length: 1 1/2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Student should bring: Paper & pen
How to Make a Banner from a T-Shirt (Workshop)
Have old SCA themed T-Shirts hanging around in the closet? Have a T-Shirt with a design that would make excellent decor for the camp? Bring it along, and a pillowcase and I'll show you how to transform that old T-Shirt into a beautiful, functional banner to spice up any feast hall or encampment. Directions are simple, and the result is spectacular! Bring trim, embellishments, tassels, embroidery...You dream it, you can make it.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None 50 Handouts available, FREE Student should bring: T-Shirt with graphic, pillowcase, embellishments
We will have a couple sewing machines and some help. Bring fabric and matching thread to make what ever you
wish. Don't know what you are doing, stop by and learn to use a sewing machine, bring some fabric (or buy it
over in merchants) and make a t-tunic. Rectangular construction is fun! Questions? email:
viviantheodosiagmail.com
More Information: Length: 5 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 6 Class fee: None Student should bring: Sewing Kit, Hair tie-back
Society Skills
See Also: Courtly Arts • Officer Classes • PersonaGame On!: Surviving Your First Year in the SCA (Class)
You have decided to step through a door into a wonderful world called the Society for Creative Anachronism, Inc. By doing so, you have taken on an interesting, rewarding, and sometimes frustrating hobby that has its own set of rules, customs and language and can sometimes leave those new to things scratching their heads. This class will help you with the basic terms of our game and their meanings; give you tips for how to prep and what to bring for the various styles of events; teach you ten minute no-sew garb; provide an overview on identifying the various nobles by what they're wearing; provide tips on persona development; and offer suggestions on different things you can do within our little world. Bring your questions and your imagination and join others as we explore the SCA.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: Beginner Location: A&S Area Max. students: No Limit Minimum age of students: 12 Class fee: None Includes: Handout Student should bring: Paper & pen
Music
See: BardicSpinning
See Also: Dyeing • Fiber Arts • WeavingSpinning Linen on a Drop Spindle (Class)
Now that you know a little about spinning and worked with a number of animal fibers, let's give linen a chance! We'll look at some of the archeological information about linen threads and fabrics. Then we'll give it a try: Dressing a distaff, spinning wet, all those flax-specific steps! You should have some spinning skills.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: Intermediate & Advanced Location: A&S Area Max. students: 7 Minimum age of students: Must know how to spin on a drop spindle, age is not a restriction. Class fee: None Includes: Handouts. A small portion of linen strick will be available, as will distaffs for loan. Bring your own drop spindle, or some will be available for loan. Student should bring: Distaff and Linen if you have them; Drop Spindle that you prefer
Spinning Meet-Up and Open Workshops (All Levels) (Workshop)
Join us in an open, shady, and breezy place to spin and create together! Bring your drop spindles, spinning wheels, fiber, and curiousity. Stay as long as you like, or visit between classes, shopping, fighting, and volunteering. [Open workshop means come and leave anytime, there is no required length of class.]
If you are brand new or returning to spinning, we'll have loaner spindles and fiber and plenty of helpful
hands-on instruction. Learn to spin and ply. Try your hand at combing or carding fiber. Check out various materials
and learn which ones work best for you.
If you need some trouble-shooting assistance, bring your rusty skills and tangled skeins, and we'll get you
started again. "The only wrong way to spin is to quit" -- not everyone wants to spin, but if YOU want to spin, come
get your skills honed and polished again, and learn how to fix those obstacles that have stumped you so far.
If you are an accomplished spinner, come join us! Show off your newest work, help a newcomer, or just relax
and get some production spinning done. Or maybe try your hand at flax and spin some linen for the first time. Spin
some new embroidery threads for a dye workshop later. Just join us and let's spin.
More Information: Length: 4 hours open house (come and leave anytime) Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: No limit Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Student should bring: Drop spindle and/or fiber if you have some
Unarmored Combat
Intermediate Unarmored Combat: I.33 Binding with Sword and Buckler (Workshop)
THL Muirrenn ingen Dondubain and Duke Guillaume de la Belgique and Duchess Felinah
This is an intermediate level class for those students who have already learned the basics of Unarmored Combat/I.33. This workshop is based on the I.33 period combat manual (Germany, circa 1295), and will focus on the techniques of binding the sword using sword and buckler, and how binding techniques change the flow and tone of combat. The introduction to Unarmored combat class or experience working with techniques from the I.33 manual is suggested. The class will include controlled drills but no actual combat. Please bring an unarmored combat sword simulator, buckler (12" or smaller), fencing-type helmet, and gloves if you have them. Some loaner equipment will be available.
More Information: Length: 2 hours Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: 20 Minimum age of students: 16 Class fee: None Includes: Handouts Student should bring: Hair tie-back, unarmored combat sword simulator, buckler (12" or less), fencing-type helmet, and gloves. Some loaner equipment will be available.
Introduction to Unarmored Combat: I.33 Sword and Buckler (Workshop)
THL Muirrenn ingen Dondubain and
Duke Guillaume de la Belgique and
Duchess Felinah
A basic introduction to Unarmored Combat, Caid's newest martial form. This workshop will explore the
fundamental forms from the I.33
period fighting manual. This is a sword and buckler form from Germany circa 1295. In this class, we
will cover the basics of footwork, stance, attacks and defenses. Please bring an unarmored combat
sword simulator, buckler (12" or smaller), gloves, and rapier-type helmet if you have them. If not,
some loaner equipment will be available. The class will include controlled drills but no actual combat.
More Information:
Length: 2 hours
Student Experience Level: All
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: 20
Minimum age of students: 16
Class fee: None
Includes: Handouts
Student should bring: Hair tie-back, unarmored combat sword simulator, buckler (12" or less),
fencing-type helmet, and gloves. Some loaner equipment will be available.
Unarmored Combat Practicum/Sparring practice (Workshop)
THL Muirrenn ingen Dondubain and
Duke Guillaume de la Belgique and
Duchess Felinah
This practicum will allow students who have just taken the Introduction or Intermediate Unarmored combat
classes to put what they have learned into practice. This class will also be an open practice for those
individuals already authorized for unarmored combat. For beginners, this class will consist of structured
sparring drills focusing on timing, range, and moving through the wards and counter wards. For more advanced
students, this class will focus on practical binding techniques and more free form sparring. Authorized
Unarmored Combat fighters can use this as a regular fighting practice. You will need protective gear in
order to participate in this practicum, including fencing-type helmet, gloves, gorget, elbow pads, and groin
protection for males. A gambeson or other padded shirt is recommended but not required. Some loaner helmets,
elbow pads, and gloves will be available, but students must provide the rest of their own protective gear.
Unarmored Combat Sword Simulators and bucklers will also be needed; some loaners will be available.
More Information:
Length: 2 hours
Student Experience Level: All
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: NO Limit
Minimum age of students: 16; all participants under the age of 18 must have a parent/legal guardian
present for the duration of the class.
Class fee: None
Includes: Handouts
Student should bring: Hair tie-back, Unarmored sword simulator, buckler (12" or less), gloves,
fencing-type helmet, gorget, elbow pads, and groin protection (men only). A gambeson or padded shirt is
recommended but not required. Some loaner helmets, gloves, elbow pads, swords and bucklers will be available.
Inkle Weaving - Warp Pickup Patterning (Workshop)
THL Sean Micheal Padraig of Sheep Haven
So you have done a few bands with patterns setup on the loom. What is next? One path is patterns done by manipulation of the
warp. This class will introduce two setups, bar pattern and diamond (speckle) weave, that support warp pickup and drop to
achieve new patters. Class will cover setup, method, and problems. Instructor will lecture, demo, answer questions, and assist
those attempting hands-on. Instructor will be available for additional consultation. Student should bring an inkle loom setup
for bar pattern or diamond weave, if possible. Looms provided by instructor are very limited. Handouts will be provided with
sample patterns. While class is at intermediate level, beginners may sit in for information.
More Information:
Length: 2 hours
Student Experience Level: Intermediate
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: No Limit
Minimum age of students: adult; teens admitted on approval of the instructor
Class fee: None
Includes: Handouts
Student should bring: Loom setup for bar pattern or diamond weave, if possible.
Learn the basics of tablet weaving and 10 patterns you can make with 1 warp threading.
You will be able to make your own trim! This is a Hands on Class, you will need the supplies
listed to participate.
More Information:
Length: 2 hours
Student Experience Level: Intermediate
Location: A&S Area
Max. students: 6
Minimum age of students: Adults only
Class fee: $2
Includes: Class fee is for the handout only.
Student should bring: You will need to bring 10 tablet weaving cards, 1 tablet or inkle loom
(or wear a belt), 1 shuttle, 2 balls white and 2 balls black of crochet cotton. OR 4 balls that are
in 2 colors of very high contrast colors in Cotton or Linen. Do NOT use wool for this beginner class.
Precision Jointery in an Age of Hand Tools (Class)
Lean basic carpentry techniques to create quality results without relying on expensive power tools and
machinery. Class will cover everything from tool selection (with an eye toward economy as well as quality)
and how to get the most out of them. Various types of period joins will be demonstrated, from the simple
half-lap to the queen of jointery: the hand-cut dovetail joint.
More Information:
Length: 4 hours
Student Experience Level: Beginner & Intermediate
Location: A&S Area or Merchant Booth: WILD HARE WOODWORKS
Max. students: 10
Minimum age of students: 16
Class fee: None
Includes: Handout
Student should bring: Paper & pen, own tools if available
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Weaving
See also: Fiber Arts
Wood Working
See Also: Carving
Youth Combat
Come build a weapon to add to your arsenal. We will be demonstrating the techniques for creating Caid-approved Youth Combat weapons and noting the differences in the Caid and Atenveldt rules, for those you interested in attending Estrella and fighting there. You build it, you take it.
More Information: Length: 1 hour Student Experience Level: All Location: A&S Area Max. students: Class is limited to 15 students (but come by, we might be able to squeeze you in) Minimum age of students: Youth must bring a responsible adult that stays with them. Class fee: None Includes: Handouts
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