Arts and Sciences
If you have a any skills or knowledge you would like to share with others, please feel free to contact Arts & Sciences Officer, Lady Contarina la Biancia (Nina Casagrande) to arrange a class.
Most classes are conducted fairly informally, and evolve from one or two members researching a new technique, area of interest, or teaching a class that has been taught to them. We cover everything from making garb (clothing), leatherwork, studying games and music, learning medieval dance, fletching, making armour and weaponcraft, calligraphy, food preparation, heraldic design and display, plus a host of other interesting topics.
The aim is to learn about history by recreating it. We study period techniques and apply them in a modern world (considering things such as cost and availability of materials, safety, and our climate). Accuracy is important and we source a range of documentary evidence, including manuscripts, archeological finds, paintings and sculptures, as well as stories told by the people that lived in those times. Here are some articles published by members (past and present), as well as an overview of our current classes.
Articles
- Documentating SCA A&S Projects by Mynjon du Jardin
- Documentation by Glynnis
- Fletching
- Music Box - Songs collected by Josseline de la Cour & Colum mac Fheradaigh
- Group Projects - Baronial Carpet
Current A & S Classes
November
- 4 How to Autocrat - Bobby
- 11 Calligraphy - Dominic
- 18 Calligraphy - Dominic
- 25 Beginners/Introduction to Felting – Glynnis Theory!
- December 2 Beginners/Introduction to Felting – Glynnis Making something!
- 9 BREAK UP PARTY
Recent Classes
- Finger braids
- Medieval Shoes
- Elizabethan - from the inside out
- Leather Waterbottle - based on designs from the Mary Rose
- 15th century Flemish garb
- Beading
- Middle Eastern Garb
- Archery fletching class