Plus the production company decided that Tudor codpieces would upset the rubes so 'banned' them =o/

That nice Mr Ascham wrote about them too
"...surelye it standeth with good reaso to have the cocke fether black or greye, as it were to gyue a man warning to noche right."

Manchet doesn't turn up on any of the assizes of bread and ale afaik so isn't a commercially produced and regulated bread sold by bakers, but there are about eleventythree types that are from varying grades and grinds. Peter's refs re manchet are mostly early 16thC Percy Household accounts, first re...

Jolynn wrote: sperm banks in America are refusing donations from gingers!!!! Obviously have no taste!

Er...should I go for the obvious? ..........then.....um....spit ? I'll get my coat, see myself out.

Gidlow......really!? That should be...erm....'interesting'.

One of the re-enactorisms is that of the pleating of the plaid - that it has to be done "just so" and hang "like this". There are some fantastic contemporary drawings which show the plaid being worn in many divers ways. On that very point I've noticed in numerous paintings, etch...

If you don't draft your own patterns the Reconstructing History do some Henrican and Landskneckt patterns in their renaissance section

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/t/historic-patterns

Got me a couple of the Quatermasterie needles and a dozen pins at TORM. The needles are superbe, very fine and with a nice smooth eye that doesn't abrade the thread, just finished buttonholing an 18thC workshirt with one. The pins are very well made too, not cheap but top quality.

Tar or thinned bitumen paint, but it stinks and takes ages to cure. Talk to Kittyhats they've done some tarred titfers albeit later ones.

Pritheee nuncle tis to show that ye art cunning as reynard the fox when testing thy mettall in syngal combat

What, THE Rick Lewis?

Zhenya wrote:All these people in Lace Wars all wanting to portray Irish soldiers. Yet offer them an all expenses paid trip to Ireland to come to an event.......

Are there any Government redcoats left or have they all gone or going feral? Sorry that last word should've read Irish, French or dodgy mancs.

I think they are just the muddyevil equivilent of a dumdum, nasty ripping tearing things.

Like "So when did we (meaning humans) start keeping chickens then?"
That made me think....

Fox wrote:

Hobbitstomper wrote:cows are not arrow proof

Neither is steel, so I'm not sure I follow that logic.

Depends how thick the steel is surely, that's if we're going off on a prove it thang again a la le arsespermyfarte discussion.

Meh...............







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Lady Cecily wrote:I have come across a description of Beer being Liquid Bread and Bread as Liquid Beer. The two things are very linked.

nononono they didn't think of beer as food(Tongue in cheek) they only drank it coz the water was kak..........now I'm sure I've heard that round here somewhere...........

Ember tongs for picking up small pieces of glowing coal from an existing fire. Flint and steel caught on a small piece of charred punk or tinder fungus or one of these mebbe http://www.firepiston.com/ click on one of the demos.

The sorta blue they use in heraldry

[tongue firmly in cheek]But they're all wearing lippy, are they all women? Must be I s'pose as paintings don't lie.[/tongue firmly in cheek]

WARS OF THE ROSES: death dates as marked Edward Neville, Lord Abergavenny [d.1476] - green and white William Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel [d.1487] - red and white John Touchet, Lord Audley [d.1490] - yellow and red John, Viscount Beaumont [d.1460] - white William, 7th Lord Berkeley [active until at lea...

No carry on Jorge, get all the spite bile and whatever else out of your system on here so's you're a fluffy wee (flatulent) bunny at the weekend.

"shara thursfeild told me that infact a doublet shouldent be made of wool "
"she was recomending cotton moleskin"

!?

Reenactment rule 23a
For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.

Big communal bowl of stooooooooo and a spoon each for the plebs, like in one of the pewter badges that they found in Southwark.

Both illustrating the same (biblical)story

Anyone else?

A peg for your nose, a face mask and do it outside, it stinks like sheeeite.

Started by scraping with a knife then worked down from course to fine papers and finished with t-cut.

Anyone make 'fustian' any more?