Research Dumping Grounds http://research.fibergeek.com/ An easy-to-edit dumping place for my SCA research venues. A combination research/project tracking tool. en Copyright 2008 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:46:30 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.31 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Viking Whipcord Interlocking or Making a Viking Whip-cord
http://genvieve.net/sca/whipcording-howto.html

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2008/08/viking_whipcord.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2008/08/viking_whipcord.html Accessory Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:46:30 -0800 Viking Leg Wraps http://users.bigpond.net.au/quarfwa/miklagard/Articles/legwraps3.htm

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2008/02/viking_leg_wraps.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2008/02/viking_leg_wraps.html Garb/Clothing Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:33:17 -0800 Fishing Weirs Primative British fishweirs
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/cbaresrep/pdf/074/07411001.pdf

Basket weir
http://www.le.ac.uk/ulas/annualreports/ar99-00/hemington/hemington.html

Fish weirs on the Tâf, Towy and Gwendraeth estuaries, Carmarthenshire.
http://web.onetel.net.uk/~rapanui/Fish_weirs/fish_weirs.htm

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2007/01/fishing_weirs.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2007/01/fishing_weirs.html Random Fri, 12 Jan 2007 11:37:43 -0800 At 12th night this last weekend I scored ~9 yards of light grey wool. It's destined for the Kampfrau dress. I'm psyched to start on it.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2007/01/at_12th_night_this_last.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2007/01/at_12th_night_this_last.html Kampfrau, 15??s Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:28:15 -0800 Keeping time annotated_teared-up.JPG
Picture taken by Arganteiline at Mists Fall Investiture, Nov 2006Necklace fob that's a watch face. Very nice for keeping time discretely. And if you wear it on a black string.. it can take the place of the ubiquitous black string seen on late period german and italian garb.

http://artbeads.com/watch-55s.html

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/picture_taken_by_arganteiline.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/picture_taken_by_arganteiline.html Accessory Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:31:06 -0800 Woot! Lower sleeves went together very quickly. These have straight "hedgehogs"** unlike the upper sleeves where the top "hedgehogs" followed the curve of the armcye.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/woot_lower_sleeves_went_togeth.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/woot_lower_sleeves_went_togeth.html Saxony 1530 Gown Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:40:32 -0800 It's not going as quickly now that there's not an immediate looming deadline.. but it is going. The bodice it now completely attached to the skirt. The part across the front where there is no bodice is attached to a piece of wool and then attached to the bottom of the white placket.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/_its_not_going_as.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/_its_not_going_as.html Saxony 1530 Gown Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:38:59 -0800 Peri-oid looking cooler Paper mache over a cooler to get a cooler cooler (that looks like a leather trunck).
cooler_cooler.jpg
http://kelly.dwarfworks.com/sca/cooler/

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/perioid_looking_cooler.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/11/perioid_looking_cooler.html Encampment Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:19:10 -0800 Siege Cooking Competition at A&S Trouney July 2006 Here was the layout and rules for the Siege Cooking Competition at the A&S Tourney on July 21-23.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/siege_cooking_competition_at_a.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/siege_cooking_competition_at_a.html Cuisine Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:43:42 -0800 Market Basket Challenge You're given a basket of food, to make dinner for yourself and 5 other people, including the religious leader in your community. (If your community doesn't have a religious leader, you can substitute the mayor or some other important person.)
You get: 1/2 chicken, 1 cup lentils, 2 carrots, 2 turnips, 1 leek, 3 Strawberries, 1 bunch herbs (your choice, but only one herb), 1/2 cup wheat flour, 1 pat
butter (1 tablespoon), 2 apples, 1 egg, 1/2 loaf day old bread, a little salt and
a little pepper.
Your own pantry is bare, so what you get is what all you'll have.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/market_basket_challenge.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/market_basket_challenge.html Cuisine Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:33:23 -0800 On Sunday Ysabella had Mari come and teach a class on German's. Nice class. Lots of pictures. Mostly confimations of things I'd come to understand. The class gave me time to finish with attaching the gold trim. It's all nice and flat.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/_on_sunday_ysabella_had.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/_on_sunday_ysabella_had.html Saxony 1530 Gown Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:37:38 -0800 Vertically Striped German Gowns 1500s Starting a collection of vertically striped german gowns. Annoyed at the poor quality of the pictures. Amused at the idea of a documentable vertically striped skirt.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/vertically_striped_german_gown.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/vertically_striped_german_gown.html Garb/Clothing Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:23:57 -0800 Last night I trimmed about 1.5"-1.75" off the bottom of the bodice all around and then finished that edge. Since I'm going to be attaching cartridge pleats I needed a finished edge. The plan for tonight is to re-attach the gold trim along the front edges of the bodice and to finish all the hand stitching on the trim on the front and the back.

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/last_night_i_trimmed_about.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/last_night_i_trimmed_about.html Saxony 1530 Gown Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:36:40 -0800 I started the weekend with a finished dress and finished the weekend with a couple of bags of pieces of dress. It's like a deconstructed german dress :)

I tried the dress on and both Edith and Sefa agreed that the bodice needed to be shortened about 2 inches all the way around. I took the dress off and then removed the skirt and sleeves, undid the pleats in the skirt, and removed the guarding from the front of the bodice.

Ideally I'll have the dress all back together by Mists Investiture (November 11). Brion and Ysabella are stepping up as Prince and Princess of the Mists and they will be wearing Germans.

Current plan:


  1. Attach red/black gingam (that Sefa gave me, thanks Sefa) to the top of the skirt. Fold that over and used the gingam as a guide to make the cartidge pleats.
  2. Shorten the bodice by 1.25-1.5 inches all the way around(follow marks but leave enough fabric to put a finished edge at the bottom of the bodice as the marks)
  3. Finish the bottom edge of the bodice
  4. Re-attach gold trim along the front edge of the bodice so it shows on both the front and the back next to the rings.(prevent the flipping)
  5. Futz with bones as necessary
  6. Attach skirt to bodice

MATH
I have 238" of finished skirt.
The bottom of the bodice is about 49" around.
I want the tops of each cartridge pleat to be at about 2 squares on the gingam which ends up at about 5/8". When this is attached to the bottom of the bodice I'll need to add another 1/8" to that to account for the bulk between the tops of each pleat. This give me a total of about 3/4" for each pleat (5/8"+1/8").

This gives me around 65-66 pleats (49 divided by 3/4" ) around the bottom of the bodice.

Which means that each pleat needs to be around 3.60" each (238 divided by 66).

Rounding this, I'll be using 11 blocks in the gingam as my guide. (each block is around 5/16. 5/16 x 11 = 3.4375 which is as close as I can come in whole blocks to 3.60)

]]> http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/_i_started_the_weekend.html http://research.fibergeek.com/2006/10/_i_started_the_weekend.html Saxony 1530 Gown Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:28:59 -0800 Greed We're talking a deep Id type "me want" response. Sigh. Lack of money sucks. Me still want though.

Kiln
http://www.artglass1.com/glass-bead-kiln-cal.htm

Table & benches in a box
- Pic: http://scademo.com/images.demo/Picture50.jpg
- Plans: http://www.smoke-fire.com/camp-furniture-patterns-1.asp

Bronze Cauldron
http://www.thadenarmory.com/sell/cookware/cookware.htm

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