(Part 2) Top products from r/sca
We found 22 product mentions on r/sca. We ranked the 69 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
21. Best Duty Cast Iron Potjie Pot Size 3 - Including Complementary Lid Lifter Knob (Value $9.95)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
The 3 legs and round belly shape allows even heat distribution around the pot.Maintains the liquids at the lowest point to prevent the food from burning.Domed lid allows for optimal internal heat circulation.The tall legs make it ideal for cooking directly over fire/coals or gas burner.8.24 Quarts
22. The Vikings (Elite)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
23. A Feast of Ice and Fire: The Official Game of Thrones Companion Cookbook
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Ever wonder what it's like to attend a feast at Winterfell? Wish you could split a lemon cake with Sansa Stark, scarf down a pork pie with the Night's Watch, or indulge in honey fingers with Daenerys Targaryen?George R. R. Martin's bestselling saga A Song of Ice and Fire and the runaway hit HBO seri...
24. The Modern Maker: Men's 17th Century Doublets
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
25. Drei Schnittbucher: Three Austrian Master Tailor Books of the 16th Century
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
28. The Complete Book of Heraldry
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
29. Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Cornell University Press
30. Medieval Fantasy as Performance: The Society for Creative Anachronism and the Current Middle Ages
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
31. Saxon, Viking and Norman (Men at Arms Series, 85)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Reference BookBook has slightly yellowed
32. Woven into the Earth: Textile finds in Norse Greenland (None)
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
33. Patterns of Fashion 3: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women C. 1560-1620
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Drama Publishers
34. The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Dress
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
35. A Sip Through Time: A Collection Of Old Brewing Recipes
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
36. Venetian Rapier: Nicoletto Giganti's 1606 Rapier Fencing Curriculum
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
37. How the Irish and Scots Dressed in the 16th Century: An examination of illustrations of Gaelic dress in the watercolors, woodcuts, and manuscript illuminations of that period
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
38. Shoes and Pattens (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) (Volume 2)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Boydell Press
I'm not SCA either, I'm an English early medieval re-enactor, but dodgy shoes seem to be a constant in all forms of recreational medievalism. I've been making shoes and other period leatherwork for about 15 years. A good shoemaker will always be popular, but personally I only make them for family and a couple of close friends, because they are about my least favourite bit of leatherwork to actually do. If you enjoy shoemaking, then even if you're "half-skilled" now, you'll get enough work that you'll soon be a master cobbler.
Please bear in mind that everything below is written from the perspective of someone who thinks history ended at about 2pm on 14 October 1066, Haroldus Rex interfectus est and everything after that is just modern :).
Be prepared to waste a lot of leather, especially when you're starting out. Remember that most people have slightly different sized feet, a left shoe is not simply a mirror image of a right shoe, especially in period shoes, always get measurements/patterns for both feet. A last is not a model of a foot, it is a model of the inside of a shoe. Learn to sew really well, I always use saddle stitch but it's not essential, and knot the thread every 4-5 stitches to minimise the risk of the shoe falling apart as soon as the thread wears through, which it will. Use the best quality waxed linen thread you can get, I'd compromise on quality of leather before buying cheap thread. The leather probably doesn't need to be as thick as you think, this may just be me, but the number of shoes I've made and then realised they would have been better, and easier to make, with slightly thinner leather. A shoe that is slightly too small for comfort can often be stretched to fit by putting it on and sitting with your foot in a bowl of water for a couple of hours.
Finally, a lot of people, especially the beer and bash brigade, will tell you medieval shoes don't have enough grip and want modern soles. Don't give in to them, wet grass on a steep slope can be challenging, but apart from that I've never had any real difficulty walking, running or fighting in authentic shoes. There are special cases, such as people with disabilities or people planning on walking a very long way on modern road surfaces, but in general medieval shoes are as comfortable and effective as modern shoes. If you really want to improve the grip, hobnails or strips of leather glued on to make a tread are reasonable compromises.
Resources:
The most comprehensive online resource: http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
I printed out the entire site several years ago, and still refer to it frequently.
Two pages with shoes good for novices to make:
A nice guide to making simple early medieval shoes:
http://dineidyn.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/a-beginners-guide-to-turnshoes.pdf
Very very simple, but authentic early medieval shoes (without hurrying I can knock out a shoe in 2 hours using this method), a bit wasteful of leather but the offcuts can used for toggles, etc:
http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/authenticity/basickit/basickit15.html#frontseam
From the same site, a guide to early medieval shoe fastenings:
http://www.vikingsonline.org.uk/resources/authenticity/basickit/annex11.html
(Ignore what it says about bone/horn/wood toggles, there is virtually no evidence for them in the archaeological record. Admittedly they wouldn't survive well in the ground, but their total absence, as compared to other small items of the same materials, suggests they weren't used. The leather toggles it shows are far more likely to be authentic.)
This looks like a possibly useful Facebook group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/periodshoes/?fref=ts
I only found it while I was writing this, but it looks promising.
If you're interested in early medieval shoes this Facebook group may be useful (both for research and selling):
https://www.facebook.com/groups/624164817603195/?fref=ts
A word of warning about Facebook groups - be wary of posting to groups that are not explicitly SCA-oriented. The SCA has a very different approach to authenticity to that of most European re-enactors, and SCAdians can be subjected to very unpleasant levels of mockery and vitriol.
Printed resources:
If you're seriously interested in historical shoes, this is just about essential:
http://www.amazon.com/Archaeological-Footwear-Development-Patterns-Prehistory/dp/9089321179/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324590&sr=1-1
Vast selection of shoes, with (very small) cutting patterns.
This is also very good, has a different selection of shoes. I would strongly recommend both books but if you have to choose this would be my second choice:
http://www.amazon.com/Stepping-Through-Time-Archaeological-Prehistoric/dp/9089320024/ref=la_B001KCUT80_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324595&sr=1-2
Much less comprehensive, and less useful for reconstructing, but well worth a read and half the price of the other two:
http://www.amazon.com/Shoes-Pattens-Medieval-Excavations-London/dp/1843832380/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1421324583&sr=1-1
Costuming books:
http://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Tailors-Assistant-2nd-1100-1480/dp/0896762955
http://www.amazon.com/Tudor-Tailor-Reconstructing-Sixteenth-Century-Dress/dp/0896762556
http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Fashion-Construction-Clothes-1560-1620/dp/0896760839
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Maker-Mens-Century-Doublets/dp/0692264841
Shoes:
http://www.vikingleathercrafts.com/
http://boots-by-bohemond.myshopify.com/
Armour:
http://armourarchive.org/
I do a Danish Viking from Hedeby, circa current year minus 1000, so 1014 currently.
What do you want to know?
For research, I've read the following:
http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Clothing-Thor-Ewing/dp/0752435876
http://www.amazon.com/Viking-Hersir-793-1066-AD-Warrior/dp/1855323184
http://www.amazon.com/The-Vikings-Elite-Ian-Heath/dp/0850455650
http://www.amazon.com/Saxon-Viking-Norman-Arms-Series/dp/0850453011
http://www.amazon.com/The-Varangian-Guard-988-1453-Men-at-Arms/dp/1849081794
The Osprey books are pretty low-level stuff, but have pretty pictures. You could do a hell of a lot worse than just trying to look like one of those.
These sites are also good for reading:
http://www.vikinganswerlady.com/clothing.shtml
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=43165
http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=46922
Good luck!
There was this book list that was posted on the Google+ SCA medieval brewing boards...perhaps it can be of some help.
I also have these books: 1, 2,3, which have been some amazing and helpful resources. The feast of ice and fire book is good because it shows common medieval recipes and then their current-age counterpart.
thank you that was very helpful. most of the riveted pots i am finding are decorative and not usually water tight. but i will keep looking.
i am not looking for a flat bottomed, flat lidded dutch oven. i was looking for a rounded bottom (with or without feet) that was deep enough to hang over a fire. i can always make a wooden lid.
Potjie pots seem to be the best solution but i don't want anything too large.
i thought i would ask to see what was the common choice.
a great resource for fencing manuscripts is http://wiktenauer.com personally i would recommend taking a look at Giganti a translation of which you can get right off Amazon https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0982591128/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1481352452&sr=8-2&pi=SY200_QL40&keywords=Giganti+fencing
I'm more familiar with the Irish clothing of the late period but, if you are interested in late period, you might find this blog page and this book interesting starts.
Books by Christopher De Hamel, David Thompson, Janet Backhouse, and Marc Drogin are all wonderful. For an overall I would start with http://www.amazon.com/dp/0801487080/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
This is not technically true. There are some texts, like Medieval Fantasy as Performance by Michael Cramer (Valgard Stonecleaver, IIRC).
https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Fantasy-Performance-Creative-Anachronism/dp/0810869950
It wasn't the ONLY issue, but the most frustrating one. The pieces for the arm and gores in that area didn't fit together right at all. I ended up having to redraft to make a proper fit. That was just an mild annoyance though compared to the devastation of loosing the fabric from the length issue. Of course, it wasn't devastating for me because I had another use for the wool but for somebody else it would be awful!
If you're interested in the Greenland gowns, I'm sure you already know, but if not I feel the need to point you in the direction of this and this. I haven't actually tried to use any of the patterns given in the second book but the research and photos are simply astounding.
I know by this point most people interested in the topic have heard of and seen these books but they are so interesting I always have to point them out just in case somebody hasn't seen them yet and I can blow their minds the way that lady from Smoke and Fire did for me when she showed me these books.
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Book-Heraldry-Stephen-Slater/dp/0754810623 There you go.