Compiled by Sabrina de la Bere to assist potential entrants to the contests. This is NOT a comprehensive list, merely some starting points. If you have suggestions, please send them to the Arts and Sciences Ministers. Enjoy -
Flags & Banners- chapter from Norris
An Introduction to Heraldic Display
Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coats of Arms
Usage and Specification of Medieval Flags
Cheesemaking in Scotland - An Early History
Bartholomew Dowe's "Dairy Book for Good Housewives" (1588)
Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book (1604)
Sir Hugh Plat's "Delightes for Ladies" (1609)
Gervase Markham's "The English Housewife" (1615)
"The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Knight, Opened" (1669)
Good Huswife's Jewel(1596)
Platina " De honesta voluptate" (On Honest Indulgence and Good Health) (1475)
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
Archive of Medieval Music (Images)
Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments
SCA Medieval and Renaissance Music Homepage
Medieval and Renaissnace Eating Utensils and Feast Gear [Lots of links here]
Scully Terence,"The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages",Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 1995.
Lois Sherr Dubin's, "The History of Beads from 30,000 B.C. to the Present", Times Mirror Books, 1987. ISBN 0-8109-0736-4.
Joan Edwards, "Bead Embroidery", BT Batsford, 1966.
[see also Heraldic Display above]
Dress, Jewels, Arms and Coats of Arms
Skaldic Verse [Article contains detailed bibliography]
Skaldic Verse FAQ [Contains list of available books]
La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database
Archive of Medieval Music (Images)
Medieval Poetry links to poems online
Mark Gaukler Medieval Wares - actual historic pieces
Dark Age Finds - British Museum or Museum of London
An Tir Spinners Guide: A History [Contains bibliography]
Elizabeth Wayland Barber's, "Women's Work: the First 20,000 Years", Norton & Co., 1994, ISBN 0-393-31348-4.
Period Leather-working Techniques
Dress Accessories c.1150-1450 by Geoff Egan and Frances Pritchard, Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, 3, ISBN: 0851158390.
Sigrid's Nalbinding Page [Contains excellent bibliography]
Nalebinding Techniques in the Viking Age
Textiles and Clothing c.1150-1450, by Elizabeth Crowfoot, Frances Pritchard and Kay Staniland. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, 4, ISBN: 0851158404,
Rutt, Richard, A History of Hand Knitting, Interweave Press, Loveland, Colorado, 1987.
Hald, Margrethe; Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs And Burials: A Comparative Study of Costume and Iron Age Textiles; Publications of The National Museum Stiftsbogtrykkeri, Copenhagen, 1980; ISBN 87-480-0312-3.
The Archeology of York: The Small Finds: Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate by Penelope Walton
The Archeology of York: Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate by Penelope Walton
Medieval Pottery Research Group Links page [Includes links to a major database of items]
Medieval Poetry links to poems online
Metallic Trims for Early Period Costumes
Bibliographical Sources for Period Tablet Weaving
Tablet Weaving How to and information on resources
A Saxon Threaded-In Tablet Weave
Three Recipes for Fourteenth and Fifteenth Century Tablet Weaving
Viking-style Tablet Weaving Strapwork Motif
The Weaver's Hand - Tablet weaving
Warping an Inkle Loom for Tablet Weaving by Lady Halima de la Lucha
The Archeology of York: The Small Finds: Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate by Penelope Walton
Inkle Weaving by Helene Bress
The Techniques of Tablet Weaving by Peter Collingwood
Ecclesiastical Pomp & Circumstance: A Thousand Years of Brocaded Tabletwoven Bands, by Nancy Spies
Kim Brody Salazar's " The New Carolingian Modelbook", Outlaw Press, 1995. ISBN 0-9642082-2-9.
Janet Arnold's, "Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd", Manley, 1988, ISBN 0 901286 20 6.
Lorna Sass', "To the King's Taste", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, ISBN 0-87099-133-7.
Lorna Sass', "To the Queen's Taste", Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976, ISBN 0-87099-151-3
Contance Hieatt & Sharon Butler's, "Curye on Inglysch", Oxford University Press, 1985, ISBN 0-19-722409-1.
Madge Lorwin's, "Dining With William Shakespeare", Atheneum, 1976, ISBN 0-689-10731-5.
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