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Issue #1:
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.
Article: http://www.thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/article_aissiette.html
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.)
Article: http://www.thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/article_dagger.html
With simple tools and easy to find materials, you can make a Viking style
padlock to protect your plunder.
The author had put this article on-line at http://www.maikon.net/wendysweb/hob/lock/lock.htm
The last time I looked, the site was not available.
Much tablet weaving in the Known World involves "threaded-in" patterns.
This article involves a wonderful three colour "threaded-in" pattern that
produces a diamond motif with two good sides!
The author has put this article on-line at http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/saxontw.html
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.
Article: http://www.thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/article_handle.html
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.
Article: http://www.thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/article_kirtle.html
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.
Article: http://www.thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/article_markjig.html