For classes that have a student limit, please contact Countess Elspeth, class coordinator, to make your reservation!
Beads
Master Mellitus
Location: TBD
Time: 1p - 3p, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
Intermediate/advanced bead making class focusing on late period beads, stringers, latticinno, and can decoration.
Beads and Jewelry
Baroness Maeve Kelly de Navarre
Location: TBD
Time: 11a - 12p
Materials Needed: None at this time
A history of beads and jewelry in our period of study.
Patchwork Really is Period!
HL Caitlin nic Raighne
Location: TBD
Time: 9a - 11a, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
$3.00 materials fee
Caitlin has been quilting for over 30 years and has been researching period quilting methods for about 15 years. The class will be a hands on class that teaches how to piece geometric shapes into a period design fabric. This fabric can then be made into a pouch. Anyone who purchases the instructors book ($20) will have the material fee waived.
Chopins
Ly Fionna McClancy
Location: TBD
Time: 11a - 12p
Materials Needed: None at this time
Chopins, the history and origin. This class is about where the style came from, how the style developed, the time frame of it's design, and why it became popular.
Spinning
Lady Runa Ketilsdottir
Location: TBD
Time: 2p - 4p, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: Drop spindle and wool will be provided.
Hands on class, must be able to handle wool. Bring other materials you want to spin.
16th Century Nueva Cadiz glass trade beads
Willewyn Glaswryghte
Location: TBD
Time: 3p - 5p, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
Open workshop for intermediat/advanced glass workers - discussion and production of a specific style 16th cdntury trade bead.
Double Face Tablet Weave
HL Johanna of Fishergate
Location: TBD
Time: 9a - 12p, 3 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
$3.00 materials fee
Already knowing how to tablet weave is a prerequisite. Have looms pre-warped with 2 cards of border color, two cards of background color, 12 cards threaded with background color in A & B and a contrasting color in C & D, two more cards
of background color and two more cards of border color. Have the shuttle loaded with the border color. Potential students may contact instructor prior to the event, johannefg@thelabyrinth.net
Textiles, Layers and How to Wear Them
Lady Josefina del Torre
Location: TBD
Time: 1p - 2p
Materials Needed: None at this time
Properties of textiles, how to use them to create wearable garb. Also how to identify textiles through burn and chemical tests.
Women’s Fashions in the late 16th Century Courts
Lady Josefina del Torre
Location: TBD
Time: 11a - 12p
Materials Needed: None at this time
Clothing, textiles, jewelry, and shoes.
Introduction to Needle Lace
Lady Marianna da Fiorenza
Location: TBD
Time: 11a - 12p, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
Limit 10
15th Century Punte in Aria - Materials will be provided to complete the project. Recommended supplies: Scissors and a thimble if you're used to using one. Teenagers and adults are welcome. Kits are available for $1.00 donation or students may bring their own size 10 crochet cotton and white sewing thread.
A Knotty Web We Weave
Lady Marianna da Fiorenza
Location: TBD
Time: 9a - 10a
Materials Needed: None at this time
An introduction to the recognition of period laces. This class involves picture recognition of the discussed lace, place of origin, time period and the basic method of making the lace.
Knitted Monmouth Cap
Lady Almedha of Anglesey
Location: TBD
Time: 1p - 3p, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
$10.00 materials fee
Limit 6
Monmouth Caps were quite popular during the 15th through the 17th century. Participants will make a custom set of knitting
needles, cover the basics of knitting in the round, and then make a Monmouth cap. Beginning knitting skills are required for this class. All materials will be provided.
Under Wearing
HL Nikoli Sashatec Kolosov
Location: TBD
Time: 3p - 4p
Materials Needed: None at this time
Under Wear as Public Wear
Finer Points of Tournament Heralding - It’s More Than Just Yellin’
Herrin Kathalyn Nimet
Location: TBD
Time: 10a - 11a
Materials Needed: None at this time
More concise techniques and ideas in tournament heralding for multi-field or higher level tournaments. Concepts include vocalizations, alternate forms of address and field courtesy.
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Or, do they?
Daibhid an Lochdach
Location: TBD
Time: 2p - 3p
Materials Needed: None at this time
This class will examine the efforts of the Holy Office of the Inquisition to suppress heresy, Protestantism, and Judaism in Spain between 1478 and the end of the SCA period. Placing the Inquisition within the context of Catholic Europe at the onset of the Renaissance, we will also discuss the causes and effects of the Inquisition. NOTE This presentation will be neither antagonistic nor sympathetic toward the Church of Rome's efforts to enforce heterodoxy in Spain.
Brandywine and smoking leaf, the pleasures of the gods
Daibhid an Lochdach
Location: top of the hill, at the firepit
Time: at least 1 hour after feast
Materials needed: your favorite pipe, and a cup for brandy
$3.00 materials fee
Limit 10 - PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED.
This class limited to people ages 21 or older ONLY
Spanish vintners claim that brandywine distillation was rediscovered by Spanish alchemists in the early 13th century. The technique of boiling sweet wine was brought to Spain by the invading Muslims, but lost for a time. This presentation will examine the histories of brandy and tobacco in Spain in the medieval period, discuss Spanish brandies, and indulge in the sensual pleasures of drink and smoke. Pipeweed, cigars, and Spanish brandy will be provided. Bring your chair, and your favorite pipe. Enjoy the evening fire, a fine drink or two (or three....) and a bit of fine leaf (and maybe, just maybe, learn something about two of the great pleasures of life.)
Beginning Four-Harness Weaving
Luzia di Valongo
Location: TBD
Time: 1p - 4p, 3 hour class
Materials needed: None at this time
Limit 4 - PREREGISTRATION REQUIRED.
Beads in Black and White
Shandrake Vale
Location: TBD
Time: 9a - 11a, 2 hour class
Materials Needed: None at this time
$6.00 Materials Fee
Very basics of bead making
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