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Saturday
Making your First Leather Pouch
I will be walking folks through making their own leather kidney pouch. Class is limited to 5 with materials, however if you have your own leather, you will be welcome to participate.
- Instructor – Ren (Mihko Pîsim)
- Class Length – 1.5 hours
- Class Size – 5 who need supplies
- Cost – $15
16th C Men’s Japanese Garb 101
An introductory class to menswear for low nobility in Sengoku era (16th century) Japan. This is a broad strokeHattori no Saburou Akihira (Eógan svartauga).s clss as even men’s fashion is heavily nuanced and full of detail. Involves a demo of getting dressed in each layer.
- Instructor – Hattori no Saburou Akihira (Eógan svartauga).
- Class length – 1.5 hours
- Class maximum – no limit but children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult
- Cost – None
Making Mawata: processing cocoons to make silk hankies
Learn to process silk cocoons and then use them to make a stack of silk hankies for spinning. This is a fun activity. Be prepared to get your hands wet.
Please bring a towel for a work surface, a small pair of scissors.
- Instructor – Odette de Saint Remy OL
- Class length – 2 hours
- Class size – 5
- Cost – $10
Pets In The Middle Ages
A look at companion animals – cats, dogs, birds, monkeys, etc – that were kept as pets. Who kept them? How were they treated? Were they all “working animals” or were some just companions? There will be a small handout, and also a discussion portion.
- Instructor – Frowe Dorothea af Holm
- Class length- 1 hr
- Class Size – 10 – all ages
- Cost- $1 for handout
Knitting in Period
We’re going to do a brief romp through the knitting that we know of through period, and discuss options for modern knitters. Bring your knitting (of course!), but this is not specifically a hands on class.
- Instructor – Lucia de Moranza
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Intro to Campfire Cooking
Intimidated by cooking on a fire? Do you need to know the basics? We will start with the period way to start a fire, then how to start it in a Scout manner. How to judge the wood and how to keep the fire going on and on.
- Instructors: Ahibilin fra Skye
- Class length- 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Metal Round Table
I’ve been really happy over the years to see blacksmithing and other metalsmithing really take off in our Kingdom. Yet I’ve also realized that we don’t really gather together to “talk shop”. So I’m calling out to all the metal smithgs out there – be you blacksmith, blaesmith, tinker or jeweler- whatever you do, if it involves metal shaping in anyway, come out to the roundtable and let’s talk and share what we do, what we hope for in the future, any questions or problems we may have. We have a diverse and thriving metal community in our Kingdom. Let’s come together and get to know each other.
- Instructor – Valdr jarnsmiðr
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
16th Century Anatomy and Medicine
This class with start with an in-person lecture by a student of the great anatomist Vesalius. Comelearn why the mores and rules of the mid 16th century allowed dissection, and what new knowledge this great master disseminated. The last part of the class will include a discussion of the 16th century’s medicine from a modern perspective.
- Instructor – Rosi Galea
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Make Your Own Early Icelandic Mittens
In this class I will teach how to pattern your own mittens using your hand as a template. This will be based on the Viking Age children’s mittens found at Akranes, Iceland. Please bring your own fabric. If you are going to use wool, and will need a liner for your comfort, plesae bring enough for that as well. I can supply needles, thread, and paper to make a take away pattern.
- Instructor – Asleif of Ramshaven
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – 5 Children must have an accompanying adult
- Cost – none
Simple Metal Stamping Drop-In & Orla’s Vigil
An easy, drop-in, metal stamping class and also Orla’s vigil. Visitors are encouraged to make a few pendants, one or two to take home and one to gift into a bigger decorative project.
Orla will be bringing all of her metal stamps and hanging out and helping folks make some easy and fun shiny stuff.
- Instructor – Orla O’shanahan
- Class length – 3.5 hours
- Class size – all welcome to drop in to play throughout the afternoon, when you have time
- Cost – none
Artair’s School of Stone Carving – Novice
“Novice (Stone Carving 101)
This set of lessons is for the beginning carver, The novice will learn some history, what to look for in a good stone, what kind of design works best, how to apply the design and carving your stone. Items provided for the novice carver:
Wooden Mallet
3 steel chisels: Point, Flat & Tooth
Cloth Wrap for Mallet and Chisels
A Piece of 400 grit sandpaper to hone your Chisels
A Bib Apron to protect your clothes
Stone
These items are provided at material cost.
instruction throughout the weekend as required.
What the novice needs to bring:
A cloth bag (an old pillowcase will do) half filled with sand.
Safety goggles (especially if you don’t wear glasses), a pencil and carbon paper and a pencil to transfer your design and a 1” or 1 ½” paint brush to whisk away the dust from your piece.
- Instructor -.Artair mac Artair of Orkney
- Class length – 2 1/2 hours
- Class size – 6 adults 18 and over only please
- Cost – $80
Blacksmithing
Making a Hook or Fire Poker
You will learn to use an anvil, hammer, bellows and tongs. We will work on techniques such as tapering, flattening, bending and selective cooling to produce a useful hook, fire poker or similar object. Class members are invited to email mark.pasley@gmail.com in advance if they have a similar project they would like to try. Participants require leather gloves, natural fibre clothing and closed toe shoes.
- Instructors: Penda and Sibylla
- Class length – 2 hours
- Class size – 4 – open to teens and adults
- Cost $7
Dress Pin Making
This class will teach you how to make two dress/hair pins fashioned from steel. We will workon techniques such as tapering, flattening, bending and selective coolling. Participants require leather gloves, natural fibre clothing and closed to shoes.
- Instructors – Penda and Sibylla
- Class size – 4 teens and adults
- Class length – 2 hrs
- Cost – $5
Sunday
Beyond The Pricking: Bobbin Lace On A Grid
Learn how to transfer your favourite repetitive pattern (ideal for trim/yardage) to a pattern that can be worked on gingham or similar square fabric.
- Instructor – Amelye Merriman
- Class length – 2 hrs –
- Class Size – 8 14 years and older
- Cost – none
From Bow to Bullseye
You can’t tune your bow without knowing your arrows. Master class in archery working from the target back….there will be math!
- Instructor – HL Graem de Cherbourg
- Class length – 1.5 hrs
- Class Size – open to all
- Cost – none
Putting the A in the SCA
An interactive discussion around the anachronisms in the SCA and how you can take your garb, A&S projects, armor or music and make it your own.
- Instructor – Sara Barrington
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class Size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Period Beavers are SO cool: and other underused heraldic beasties!
Come geek out with me as we explore what beavers, whales, dolphins looked like in medieval heraldry! Plus some other weird beasties you might want for your own armory.
- Instructor: Rylyn Buchanan
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size: all welcome – ages 12 and over
- Cost: none
Norse Farming – An Experiment
A presentation covering the various aspects of Norse farming including tools, crops, laws and more. This is part of Liðr’s White Wolf Fian Challenge.
A general round table discussion will follow the presentation.
- Instructor – Liðr Langakason
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Introduction to Irish Uncial Calligraphy
This early script was spread by wandering Irish monks, along with Irish art styles, all across the European continent. We will start with pencils and graph paper to master the basic shapes, and then hopefully move on to using ink. I will supply calligraphy markers and graph paper for the first 5 who sign up, but after than anyone can participate as much or as little as they wish if they bring their own supplies. We will only cover one of the minuscule forms and not any of the larger decorated letters.
Any ages as long as they can hold a pencil – Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Instructor – Asleif of Ramshaven
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – 5 – anyone welcome if they bring their own pencil, graph paper, calligraphy markers/pens
- Cost – none
Royal Moneyer’s Guild of Ealdormere Annual General Meeting
Come join the Royal Moneyer’s Guild of Ealdormere as we have our annual general meeting! New moneyers and those simply interested in what we do are welcome to attend. Topics of discussion to include the guild projects, techniques, and guild officer elections.
- Instructor – Dietrich von Sachsen
- Class length – 1 hr
- Class size – all welcome
- Cost – none
Artair’s School of Stone Carving – Scholar
“Scholar (Stone Carving 201)
This set of lessons is for the more experienced carver, such as one who has completed the novice level and has made such progress as to be advanced to this level. In addition to learning some new tricks and techniques, the scholar may discuss ideas for a master piece. There is no charge for this instruction.”
- Instructor – Artair mac Artair of Orkney
- Class length – This class is on a consultation basis. Please contact the instructor on site to arrange a time which is agreeable to both parties. Instructor has advised that he will make himself available all weekend.
- Class Size – to be arranged on an individual basis
- Cost – None
Blacksmithing
Making a Hook or Fire Poker
You will learn to use an anvil, hammer, bellows and tongs. We will work on techniques such as tapering, flattening, bending and selective cooling to produce a useful hook, fire poker or similar object. Class members are invited to email mark.pasley@gmail.com in advance if they have a similar project they would like to try. Participants require leather gloves, natural fibre clothing and closed toe shoes.
- Instructors: Penda & Sibylla
- Maximum 4 people per class
- Age: Teens and adults
- Cost $7
Making Fire Tongs
Make a set of two-handed, long -handled campfire tongs (these will pick up firelogs). We will work on techniques such as tapering, flattening, bending and twisting. Participants require leather gloves, natural fibre clothing and closed toe shoes.
- Instructors – Penda and Sibylla
- Class size – 4 teens and adults
- Class length – may take longer than 2 hours
- Cost – $10