Articles to provide instruction in various fields of Medieval arts or for Medieval re-creationists, by people with a passion for their subject.

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• Cotehardies: Cutting and Fitting the Grand Aissiette
  by Ken Nye (Edward Newman)
  The outstanding feature of the fourteenth century pourpoint worn by Charles of Blois is the extraordinarily large armhole (grand aissiette) and sophisticated cut of the sleeves. This article covers the details of the grand aissiette and provides instructions for its construction.

• Recreating 14th Century Braies
  by Ken Nye, writing as Edward Newman
  As cotehardies grew shorter in the middle of the 14th century and uncovered more of the leg, hose were made longer and more closely fitted. To manage this, the braies also had to be shortened and reduced in bulk. I offer my experiments as a possible clarification of the surviving evidence.

• How To Make an Eating Dagger from a File
  by Al Massey (Lord Giles de Macie)
  There are many persons in the SCA who, for one reason or another, would like to make their own working and eating knife. In this, the first of several articles, you are taken through the steps needed to turn a file into a very good dagger. (Hafting and sharpening are in later articles.)

• How to make an eating dagger pt.2-Hilting the blade
  by A.R.Massey (Lord Giles de Macie)
  In a previous article, the author gave an overview of the steps involved in creating an eating dagger from a used file. In this article, he gives tips on how to finish the blade, by putting a guard, and handle, on what will be a hidden-tang knife or dagger blade.

• Building the "Henry" Tablet-Weaving Loom
  by David Swan
  How to construct a loom for tablet weaving. The loom is long enough to easily do split pack work, and the back of the loom is a warping board.

• Lining a Kirtle the Easy Way
  by K.Nye (Edward Newman)
  Lining a garment has several advantages. Often, the draping qualities of a fabric can be greatly improved by selecting the correct weight and texture of lining. This article shows a lining technique learned from studying Victorian corsets. The method is from out of period, but the results are superbly applicable to the kirtles of the fourteenth century, those beautifully shaped garments made of many narrow gores and inset godets which can be hell to get a lining to fit into neatly and accurately.

• A Jig for Marking Clock Wheels for Cutting
  by D.M.Swan (Master Henry MacQueen)
  To make a clock wheel (a gear inside a clock), you need to be able to accurately mark out the teeth of the wheel for cutting. This article describes a jig for marking clock wheels.
  

• Weave a Pouch in Three Hours on a 5 Cent Loom
  by David Swan, writing as Henry MacQueen
  Weave a seamless drawstring pouch using a square of cardboard and some straightpins as the loom.

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