Arts And Sciences

ARTS & SCIENCES

[Bardic Endeavours]

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The Lochac Arts & Sciences Webpage
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[Brewing] [Cooking] [Costuming & Embroidery] [Dancing]
[Gaming] [Gardening] [Illumination & Calligraphy] [Jewelry] [Leatherwork]
[Period Combat Styles] [Period Encampments] [Pottery & Ceramics]
[Smithing & Armouring] [Woodworking]

There's more to do in the SCA than just fighting and feasting! As modern medieval enthusiasts, we indulge in all sorts of artistic passions ranging from the coarse (such as blacksmithing) to the fine (such as needlework and illumination). Here, in alphabetical order, are but a few of the things we do:

Bardic Endeavours
	For some of the best information on Music in the SCA, try the Online SCA Demo Music Page.
	Useful Links: Lochac's Worshipful Company of Bards, Troubadours and Jongleurs This is the discussion list for Bards in the SCA.

Brewing
	For some of the best information on SCA Brewing, try the Online SCA Demo Brewing Page
	Useful Links: Perhaps you'd like to join the Kingdom of Lochac's Brewers, Vitners' and Imbibers' Guild? The Kingdom of Lochac Brewer's Discussion Group can be found here. The SCA Brewer's Discussion Group can be found here.

Cooking
For some of the best information on SCA Cooking, try the Online SCA Demo Cooking Page.	Useful Links: The Cooks Guild contact updated.

Costuming & Embroidery
For some of the best information on SCA Costuming, try the Online SCA Demo Costuming Page.	The Costume Ring - is a webring linking sites as diverse as Dutch Women's Clothing (1500-1530), La Couturiere Parisienne (this has hundreds of paintings up as reference material) and The Elizabethan Costuming Page. The Salacious Historian's Lair - an intriguing costuming site by a German lady living in England. The Costume Page - an online costuming resources webpage. The Costumer's Manifesto - a list of great costuming links.
Useful Links: If you like, there are a number of groups within the Kingdom of Lochac that you could join: i) The Fibre Guild Website is here. ii) Worshipful Company of Broiderers iii) Guild of Tailors, Haberdashers and Mercers of Lochac website

Dancing
For some of the best information on SCA Dancing, try the Online SCA Demo Dancing Page.
Useful Links: Perhaps you aspire to join the premiere Lochac Dancing Order, the Silver Rondel?

Gaming
For a little bit about Period Gaming, try this page from the Online SCA Demo Website.

Gardening
Useful Links: Gardening Guild - Herb and Garden Guild contacts updated.

Illumination & Calligraphy
Useful Links: In the Kingdom of Lochac, we have two major Guilds which you can join: The Painters and Limners Guild, and the College of Scribes.	For the best information on SCA Calligraphy try the Online SCA Demo Calligraphy Page

Jewelry
	See our small collection of pictures from the Hohensalzburg Museum in Salzburg, Austria.

Period Encampments
Period Encampments Reference Page - a collection of examples of how its done - both in the SCA and elsewhere around the world.

Pottery & Ceramics
See our small collection of pictures from the Hohensalzburg Museum in Salzburg, Austria.

Smithing & Armouring
Local Western Shores Armourers Dragon's Hollow Armoury (Mark Batchelor) http://www.eftel.com/~dragons_hollow/ The Hall of Antiquities (Brad) http://thehall.iinet.net.au Medieval Arms and Armour (Ray Morris) http://members.iinet.net.au/~morrisrh/ Hawkewynde Armoury http://www.hawkewynde.com.au/armoury/armoury.html	ARMOURING LINKS The Armour Archive - Paramount online site for the discussion and sharing of armouring techniques. Grimm Armoury Armour Album - This site a fairly modest source for period armour pictures Ugo's Site - This SCA armourer created the work for such movies as Hell Boy, Planet of the Apes, Highlander 4, Blade 3 and Witchblade. Besides making incredible fantasy armour he also makes some quite passable period armour. The Arador Armour Library - Great source for info on armour and armouring. This link goes straight to an article on Basic Armouring.
LOCAL SOURCES OF METAL AND LEATHER Western Leather Craft - located at 84 Brewer Street Perth (Phone: 9227 9127) Simsmetal - located at 200 Barrington Street Spearwood Western Australia (Phone: ) and at.... in Welshpool (Phone: ).