https://youtu.be/NS2SddH18pM A few of the Royal Foresters Guild in Endewearde have filmed a period watercraft piece. We illustrate the use of a dugout canoe and a pair of coracles. Maneuvering the vessels, fishing an eel pot, and pair net trawling are all shown. These watercraft could definitely have met up in a situation like this... Continue Reading →
Irish Logboat – Seamus na Coille Aosda
East Kingdom Wiki: https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php?title=Seamus_na_Coille_Aosda The goal of this project was to create a functional logboat appropriate to early Medieval Ireland using period materials and tools (or functionally equivalent substitutes when necessary) and using techniques and following a sequence of operations seen in period examples. It is a simple logboat of the canoe type made from... Continue Reading →
Leather Baronial Coronets using the Cuir Bouilli Method – Temur Numuchi
Artist's EK Wiki Page= https://wiki.eastkingdom.org/index.php?title=Tem%C3%BCr_Numuchi&fbclid=IwAR2wTM5j3an6aa0pz0XXYB990tT_dkIihjIza3oDkbSk65DBNmqTNTcC5e0 Cuir-bouilli, which is Leather boiled or soaked in hot water, and, when soft, molded or pressed into any required form; on becoming dry and hard it retains the form given to it, and offers considerable resistance to cuts, blows, etc. The word was in common English use from 14th to... Continue Reading →
Universal Fighting Strategies and Principles – William Deth
Different fighting principles exist in different regions of the world. Examination of fighting manuals from the Eastern and Western world have revealed what can be considered “universal” fighting principles, which are consistent between two very distinct cultures. The fighting manuals are The Book of Five rings by Miyamoto Mushashi (representing the Eastern culture) and Great... Continue Reading →
Scalco, Et Cameriero Secreto; Italian Handwriting in Calligraphy and Illumination – Alessandra Serena Renda of Gibellina
Bartolomeo Scappi came from the town of Dumenza in Lombardy, according to the inscription on a stone at the church of Luino. His date of birth is unknown, but is placed at the beginning of the 16th century, even though his death occurred around 1570. He died April 13, 1577 and was buried in the... Continue Reading →