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Twelve units of complementary studies are required of all candidates for the B.A. degree in Political Science. These units must come from courses bearing a prefix other than PLSI that are not cross-listed with Political Science. Students can satisfy this requirement by completing a related minor, a secondary major, or through an approved Study Abroad program.
Complementary Studies courses should have a direct bearing on the study of politics, or deepen and enrich the study of politics. Such courses are typically found in departments like International Relations, Urban Studies and Planning, or Philosophy, and in the College of Ethnic Studies.
Courses that can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major, SFSU. Please note that courses not listed here might be considered; please consult your advisor.
Africana Studies
AFRS 300 From Africa to Olmec America: Ancient African Prehistory and History
AFRS 301Africa in Global Perspective
AFRS 302 Black Diaspora
AFRS 303 African American History
AFRS 304 Black People and the American Experience
AFRS 310 Anthropology of Blackness
AFRS 312 Kalifia: The Black Heritage of California
AFRS 320 Black Politics: Mass Movements and Liberation Themes
AFRS 335: The Black Woman: A Cultural Analysis
AFRS 345 Blacks in Urban America
AFRS 375 Law and the Black Community
AFRS 376 Government, The Constitution and Black Citizens
AFRS 450 African Philosophy and Cosmology
AFRS 646 Frantz Fanon's Psychology of Violence, Negation and Liberation
AFRS 660 Civil Rights Movement and Education
American Indian Studies
AIS 205 American Indians and U.S. Law
AIS 235 American Indian Images and Issues in the Mass Media
AIS 310 American Indian Religion and Philosophy
AIS 350 (ALSO in AFRS) Black-Indians in the Americas
AIS 410 Perspectives of Native Californians
AIS 420 American Indian Women
AIS 430 American Indian Sovereignty
AIS 460 Power and Politics in American Indian History
AIS 470 American Indian Identity Politics
AIS 480 American Indian Social Movements
AIS 490 Ancestors or Data? The Politics of NAGPRA
AIS 540 Advanced Topics in American Indian Law
AIS 600 Current Issues in the American Indian Community
AIS 610 American Indians and Museums
ART 403 Queer Art History
ART 405 Art, Literature, and Power in the Renaissance
ART 504 The Art and Architecture of Islam
ART 506 Art Since 1945
ART 507 Art of China
ART 508 Contemporary Art in a Global Context
ART 602 Art History Seminar
Asian American Studies
AAS 301 Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage
AAS 320 Chinese in the United States
AAS 323 Chinese American Identities
AAS 330 Nikkei in the United States
AAS 333 Japanese American Identities
AAS 350 Filipina/os in the United States
AAS 353 Filipina/o American Identity
AAS 360 Koreans in the United States
AAS 370 Vietnamese in the United States
AAS 373 Vietnamese American Identities
AAS 377 Cambodians in the United States
AAS 510 Asian Americans in California
AAS 518 Asian Americans and Mass Media
AAS 540 South Asians in the United States
AAS 541 South Asian Diaspora
AAS 570 Southeast Asians in the United States
AAS 581 Asian American Women
AAS 595 Asian American Communities and Public Policy
AAS 681 Asian American Community Changes and Development
ANTH 300 Foundations of Anthropology: History
ANTH 302 Foundations of Human Variation
ANTH 303 Foundations of Anthropological Film
ANTH 305GW Writing Anthropology - GWAR
ANTH 315 Regional Ethnography
ANTH 316 Contemporary Culture of Greece
ANTH 318 Islam: Interpretation and Practice
ANTH 319 Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
ANTH 320 Racism: Cross-Cultural Analysis
ANTH 321 Endangered Cultures
ANTH 325 Class: Cross-Cultural Analysis
ANTH 326 Origins of Art and Visual Representation
ANTH 327 Anthropology and Film
ANTH 328 Anthropology and Photography
ANTH 343 Women and Work
ANTH 415 Culture and Sex in East Asia
ANTH 420 Indigenous Media and Social Change
ANTH 450 Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
ANTH 470 Archaeology of Mexico and Central America
ANTH 471 The Ancient Maya
ANTH 480 Ancient Civilizations of the Near East
ANTH 490 Ancestors or Data?: Culture, Conflict and NAGPRA
ANTH 500 Language and Cultural Systems of North American Indians
ANTH 501 Latin America: The National Period
ANTH 515 The Two Koreas
ANTH 525 Diversity in the Workplace
ANTH 551 Anthropology of the Body
ANTH 555 Urban Anthropology
ANTH 557 Ethnography of the Inner City
ANTH 569 Cross-Cultural Aspects of Sex and Gender
ANTH 570 Anthropology of Religion
ANTH 581 Anthropology and Folklore
ANTH 585 Globalization and World Cultures
ANTH 590 Anthropology of Women
ANTH 591 Applied Anthropology Media Workshop
ANTH 592 Archaeological Methods
ANTH 595 Visual Anthropology I
ANTH 596 Visual Anthropology II
ANTH 609 Approaches to the African Past
ANTH 630 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 651 Ethnographic Field Methods
ANTH 652 Anthropological Statistics
BECA 300: BECA Research
BECA 324: Law & Regulation of Electronic Media
BECA 460: Introduction to News on Broadcast and Electronic Media
BECA 390: The Age of Information
BECA 422: Social Aspects of Electronic Media
CINE 304 Gender and Film
CINE 305 Film and the Holocaust
CINE 306 Chinese Documentary Film
CINE 308 Third Cinema
CINE 327 Anthropology and Film
CINE 331 Hollywood Representation of Race and Ethnicity
CINE 332 Understanding the Representation and Narration of Sexuality in Cinema
CINE 340 Critical Studies
CINE 341 Critical Studies Discussion Group
CINE 342 Documentary Film
CINE 342GW Documentary Film - GWAR
CINE 372 Film Theory
CINE 373 Film and Society
CINE 375 U.S. Culture and Cinema of the 1950s
CINE 401 National/Regional Cinemas
CINE 407 History and Film
Communication Studies
COMM 351 Public Speaking
COMM 352 Women and Words
COMM 365 Argumentation and Debate
COMM 366 Persuasion
COMM 368 Forensics
COMM 440 Political Communication
COMM 441 Rhetoric of American Dissenters
COMM 443 Rhetoric of Feminist Movements
COMM 444 Rhetoric of the Media
COMM 444GW Rhetoric of the Media - GWAR
COMM 445 The Rhetoric of Terrorism
COMM 448 Rhetoric of Ecology
COMM 448GW Rhetoric of Ecology - GWAR
COMM 449 The Rhetoric of Criminality and Punishment
COMM 461 Issues in Free Speech
COMM 496 Special Studies in Communication and Social Criticism
COMM 522 Organizational Communication
COMM 522GW Organizational Communication - GWAR
COMM 525 Sexual Identity and Communication
COMM 527 Health Communication
COMM 530 Communication in Organizational Training
COMM 531 Conflict Resolution
COMM 532 Interviewing Methods in Organizational Settings
COMM 533 Communication and Empowerment in Organizations
COMM 534 Mediation Theory and Practice
COMM 534GW Mediation Theory and Practice - GWAR
COMM 537 Leadership Communication
COMM 541 Critical Approaches to Culture and Communication
COMM 542 Intracultural Communication
COMM 543 Dialogues Across Differences
COMM 544 Communication and Aging
COMM 550 Classical Rhetoric
COMM 561 Social Semiotics
COMM 561GW Social Semiotics - GWAR
COMM 562 Discourse in Interaction
COMM 562GW Discourse in Interaction - GWAR
COMM 563 Conversational Analysis
COMM 570 Human Communication and New Technologies
COMM 663 Qualitative Methods in Communication and Performance
COMM 664 Research Methods in Language and Social Interaction
Comparative Literature
CWL 421 Celtic Literature
CWL 422 Imagining the Constructed Body: From Statues to Cyborgs
CWL 424 Multicultural Middle Ages
CWL 430 Heroic Tales of the Mediterranean
CWL 432 From Ghost Stories to Short Stories: Japanese Fiction in Comparative Contexts
CWL 437 Holocaust and Literature
CWL 440 "Typical American": Narratives of Multiculturalism in the Americas from 1492 to the Present
CWL 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas
CWL 465 Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective
CWL 480 European Jewish Writers
CWL 520 Modern Prose of the Americas
CWL 525 The Partial Magic of Metafiction
CWL 540 Faulkner, García Márquez, and Morrison
CWL 637 Experimental Novel: 1950-1980
Computer Science
CSC 338 Information Technology in a Global Society
Criminal Justice
C J 300 Criminal Justice: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective
C J 323GW Ethics in Criminal Justice - GWAR
C J 330GW Research Methods in Criminal Justice-GWAR
C J 335 Legal Writing and Research
C J 340 Comparative Criminal Justice
C J 400 Police and Public Policy
C J 401 Criminal Profiling
C J 405 Organized Crime
C J 435 Race, Crime, and Justice
C J 450 Jails and Prisons
C J 451 The Architecture of Incarceration
C J 452 Criminological Theory
C J 460 Community Corrections and Sentencing
C J 461 Terrorism and Covert Political Warfare
C J 470 Juvenile Justice
C J 475 Intervention Policies in Juvenile Justice
C J 480 California Corrections System
C J 485 Latina/o Youth, Crime, and Justice
C J 501 Criminal Law
C J 502 Criminal Procedure
C J 505 International Criminal Law
C J 515 Extremism as Crime
C J 520 Construction of Crime and Justice
C J 525 Global Restorative Justice and Corrections
C J 530 Geographies of Social Control and Urban Diversity
C J 550 School Violence and Discipline
C J 570 Urban Violence
C J 600 Youth Gangs in Community Context
C J 680 Field Course in Criminal Justice
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
CLAS420 - Classics and the Environment
CLAS530 - Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Greece and Rome
EDUC 300 Education and Society
EDUC 509 Violence in Schools: Identification, Prevention, and Intervention
EDUC 511 Traumatized Child: The Effects of Stress, Trauma, and Violence on Student Learning
EDUC 513 Drugs and Alcohol in Schools: Understanding Substance Use and Abuse
EDUC 514 Teaching Diversity in the Classroom
EDUC 639 Bilingual Education in the U.S.: A History of Struggle, Resistance and Achievement
ENG 380 British and American Travellers to Greece
ENG 398 Greek American Literature
ENG 432 Seminar in Immigrant Literacies and Community-Based Projects
ENG 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas
ENG 462 Literature in English III: The Twentieth Century
ENG 465 Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction
ENG 495 Digital Humanities and Literacies
ENG 512 18th Century British Women Writers
ENG 514 Age of the Romantics
ENG 516 Age of the Victorians
ENG 521 Studies in 20th Century English Literature
ENG 522 Irish Literature
ENG 524 Contemporary American Short Story
ENG 525 Studies in American Literature
ENG 526 Age of the American Renaissance: 1830-1860
ENG 527 American Literature: 1860-1914
ENG 528 American Literature: 1914-1960
ENG 533 Holocaust and Literature
ENG 535 Literature and Ecology
ENG 546 20th Century American Jewish Women Writers
ENG 550 The Rise of the Novel
ENG 552 Modern British Novel
ENG 553 Classic American Novel
ENG 554 Modern American Novel
ENG 555 The Short Story
ENG 558 Early Twentieth Century Poetry in the United States
ENG 559 Middle and Late Twentieth Century Poetry in the United States
ENG 565 The Short Story: Global Literature in English
ENG 570 Medieval and Renaissance Drama
ENG 571 Shakespeare's Rivals
ENG 573 American Drama
ENG 574 Modern British Drama
ENG 580 Individual Authors
ENG 581 Jane Austen
ENG 583 Shakespeare: Representative Plays
ENG 584 Shakespeare-Selected Plays
ENG 589 Milton
ENG 600 Theory of Literature
ENG 601 Literature and Psychology
ENG 602 Literature and Society
ENG 614 Women in Literature: Authors and Characters
ENG 615 Imagery, Metaphor, and Symbol
ENG 631 Post-Colonial Literature in English
ENG 632 The Literature of Exile and Migration
ENG 633 Gay Love in Literature
ENG 636 Greek and Roman Myth and Modern Literature
ENG 658 South African Literature
Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies 450: Environmental Law and Policy
Environmental Studies 470: Climate Politics and Policy
Environmental Studies 600: Environmental Problems and Solutions
Ethnic Studies (Race and Resistance Studies)
RRS 240 All Power to the People: Comparative Freedom Movements of the "Sixties"
RRS 250 Race and Ethnicity and Power in America
RRS 350 Race, Labor, and Class
RRS 410/SOC 410 Grassroots Organizing for Change in Communities of Color
RRS 435 National Security and the Racialization of Arabs and Muslims in North America
RRS 520 Race, Radicalism, and Revolution
RRS 600/ HIST 466 History of People of Color in the U.S.
[Section B: Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts]
RRS 430 Arab Media Images in America: Impact on Arab Americans
RRS 480 Youth Culture, Race and Resistance
[Section C: Gender and Sexuality]
RRS 571 Women, Race, and Class
[Section D: Diasporas and Transnationalism]
RRS 370 Islamophobia: Roots, Development, and Contestation of Hatred
RRS 420 Arab American Identity: Memory and Resistance
RRS 657 South Asian Diaspora
GEOG 402 Human Response to Natural Hazards
GEOG 421 Future Environments
GEOG 423 Geographic Perspectives on Gender, Environment and Development
GEOG 425 Economic Geography
GEOG 427 Agriculture and Food Supply
GEOG 428 International Political Economy of Food and Hunger
GEOG 430 Transforming Food and Agriculture Systems: Local to Global
GEOG 432 Urban Geography
GEOG 433 Urban Transportation
GEOG 434 Geographies of Health and Health Care
GEOG 435 Geography of Global Transportation
GEOG 437 Bicycle Geographies
GEOG 445 Geopolitics and Globalization
GEOG 454 San Francisco on Foot
GEOG 455 Geography of Ethnic Communities
GEOG 500GW Physical and Human Dimensions of Climate Change - GWAR
GEOG 550 Geography of the United States and Canada
GEOG 552 Geography of California
GEOG 575 Emerging China
GEOG 600 Environmental Problems and Solutions
GEOG 644 Water Quality
GEOG 646 The Geography of Marine Resources
GEOG 647 Geography of Water Resources
GEOG 648 Management of National Parks and Protected Areas
GEOG 651 San Francisco Bay Area Environmental Issues
GEOG 652 Environmental Impact Analysis
GEOG 657 Natural Resource Management: Biotic Resources
GEOG 658 Land-Use Planning
GEOG 666 Geography of Garbage: Recycling and Waste Reduction
GEOG 667 Environmental Justice: Race, Poverty, and the Environment
GEOG 668 Politics, Law, and the Urban Environment
Global Peace Studies
GPS 315 Introduction to Global Peace Studies
GPS 375 Peace Law and Human Rights in the U.S.
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
HUM 360 Styles of African Cultural Expression
HUM 361 Cultural Expression in Islam
HUM 366 India's Gandhi
HUM 372 Critical Political Theory
HUM 375 Biography of a City
HUM 376 San Francisco
HUM 377 Jerusalem
HUM 378 Athens
HUM 390 Images of Eroticism
HUM 401 Ancient Greek Literature
HUM 402 Ancient Roman Literature
HUM 403 The Early Middle Ages
HUM 404 The High Middle Ages
HUM 405 Art, Literature, and Power in the Renaissance
HUM 407 Romanticism and Impressionism
HUM 410 The Modern Revolution
HUM 432 Nietzsche and Postmodernism
HUM 434 Arendt and Heidegger
HUM 450 California Culture
HUM 455 Humanities of the Americas
HUM 480 Thought and Culture in America to 1880
HUM 481 Thought and Culture in America: 1880 to the Present
HUM 496 Islam and the Poetics of Space
HUM 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
HUM 507 Art of China
HUM 510 Comparative Form and Culture
HUM 520 North and South American Cultural Expression
HUM 526 Culture of Japan before 1850
HUM 527 Japan and Modernity
HUM 530 Chinese Civilization
HUM 531 Images of Modern China
HUM 535 Classical South Asian Cultural Forms
HUM 536 Modern South Asian Cultural Forms
HUM 582 Tales from Ancient India: Hinduism and Buddhism
International Relations
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
Jewish Studies
JS 301 Judaism, An Introduction
JS 317 The Holocaust and Genocide
JS 377 Jerusalem
JS 405 Film and the Holocaust
JS 408 Israeli Cinema
JS 414 Arendt and Heidegger
JS 415 The Hebrew Bible
JS 425 Judaism: Religion and Text
JS 430 Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions, and Society
JS 437 Holocaust and Literature
JS 449 American Jewish History
JS 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas
JS 477 Topics in Israel Studies
JS 480 European Jewish Writers
JS 485 Modern Israeli Literature
JS 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
JS 530 Yiddish Literature, History, and Society
JS 540 Anti-Semitism
JS 546 20th Century American Jewish Women Writers
JS 560 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
JS 632 Jewish History I: Beginnings to 1650
JS 633 Jewish History II: 1650 to Present
JS 741 The Holocaust and Postwar Germany Taught in English
JOUR 307 News Media Law and Ethics
JOUR 328 Anthropology and Photography
JOUR 452 International Media Politics
JOUR 536 Latina/o Journalism
JOUR 560 Public Journalism
JOUR 570 Opinion Writing
JOUR 575 Community Media
JOUR 580 Environmental Journalism
JOUR 582 Social Media Journalism
JOUR 595 Magazine Writing
JOUR 608 News Bureau Publication Lab
JOUR 610 Cultural Diversity and News Media
JOUR 645 Journalism in China
JOUR 650 Seminar: Contemporary News
Labor Studies
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
Latina/Latino studies
LTNS 680 Community Organizing
[courses listed under 'Latina/Latino Studies History']
LTNS 315 Latina/os in California
LTNS 376 History of Latinos in the U.S.
LTNS 435 Oral History Methods: Theory and Practice
LTNS 450 Indigenismo: Indigenous Cultures of the Americas
LTNS 460 Central Americans in the US: History and Heritage
LTNS 465 Mexican Americans: History and Heritage
LTNS 467 Caribbeans in the US: History and Heritage
[courses listed under 'Latina/Latino Studies Behavioral and Social Science']
LTNS 210 Latino Health Care Perspectives
LTNS 276 U.S. Government & Constitution
LTNS 280 Acculturation and Latina/o Communities
LTNS 415 Economic Progress of Latinos in the U.S.
LTNS 430 Race, Crime & Justice
LTNS 445 Gendered Borders: Latinas & Globalization
LTNS 470 Latina/o Immigration to the U.S.
LTNS 500 Latina/o Community Mental Health
LTNS 505 Gender, Sexuality, and Latino Communities
LTNS 510 Latina/o Families Narrative
LTNS 580 Educational Equity (CSL)
LTNS 590 Environmental Justice
LTNS 660 Latino Politics
LTNS 670 The U.S.- Mexico Connection: Peoples, Politics, and Cultures
LTNS 680 Latina/o Community Organizing
LTNS 690 Community Fieldwork in Latina/Latino Studies
LTNS 692 Cuba: Health, Education & Culture
Middle East & Islamic Studies
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
Modern Languages and Literatures (all programs, i.e. French, Spanish, Arabic, Persian, Greek, etc)
All courses can be counted. 12 units of any foreign language automatically fulfills complementary studies.
Museum Studies
M S 310 Introduction to Museum Education Methods and Community Engagement
M S 680 Cultural Heritage Preservation
M S 700 History and Organization of Museums
M S 701 Museum Theory and Practice
M S 702 Writing for the Museum Profession
M S 708 Museums: Global Operations
M S 710 Museum Education and School Outreach
M S 715 Interpretation in Museums and Heritage Organizations
MUS 505 Music of the World's Peoples
MUS 506 Survey of Jazz
MUS 507 Jazz and Blues in Film
MUS 508 Modern Music: American Iconoclasts
MUS 511 The Roots of Rock
MUS 512 Rock Since the Mid-1960s
MUS 520 Seminar in Music Literature
MUS 530 Musics of the Middle East and India
MUS 531 Musics of North and Southeast Asia
MUS 532 Music of Latin America
MUS 542GW Ethnomusicology - GWAR
MUS 545 Traditional Kulintang Music and Dance of the Southern Philippines
MUS 552 20th Century Music
MUS 558 Music of John Coltrane
MUS 559 Women in Jazz
PHIL 301 Ancient Philosophy
PHIL 302 Medieval Philosophy
PHIL 303 Modern Philosophy
PHIL 315 Introduction to Global Peace Studies
PHIL 320GW Philosophical Analysis - GWAR
PHIL 321 Being and Knowing
PHIL 330 Political Philosophy
PHIL 335 Law and Society
PHIL 350 Philosophy of Science
PHIL 351 Philosophy of Risk
PHIL 355 Politics and Ethics of the Consumer Society
PHIL 365 Science and Civilization
PHIL 369 Philosophical Issues in Sexuality
PHIL 375 Peace Law and Human Rights in the U.S.
PHIL 378 Philosophy of Criminal Law
PHIL 379 Philosophy of Constitutional Interpretation
PHIL 380 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 383 Ethics in Medicine
PHIL 384 Philosophy of Research Ethics
PHIL 395 Ethical Issues: Science and Technology
PHIL 410 Topics in the History of Philosophy
PHIL 415 The Hebrew Bible
PHIL 425 Existentialism
PHIL 430 Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
PHIL 432 Nietzsche and Postmodernism
PHIL 434 Arendt and Heidegger
PHIL 435 Human Rights in Global Perspective
PHIL 436 Islamic Political Philosophy
PHIL 445 Sex and Morality
PHIL 450 Ethics
PHIL 451 Feminist Moral Issues
PHIL 452 Nature of Morality
PHIL 455 Sex and the Law
PHIL 460 Philosophy of Art
PHIL 464 Philosophy and Film
PHIL 470 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 494 Philosophy and Personal Development
PHIL 500 Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
PHIL 502 World Religions
PHIL 509 The Buddhist Tradition
PHIL 511 Chinese Philosophy and Religion
PHIL 514 Kabbalah and Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition
PHIL 516 Islamic Philosophy
PHIL 517 Islamic Mysticism
PHIL 525 The Nature of Religious Experience
PHIL 530 Selected Religious Thinkers
PHIL 540 Selected Issues in Religious Thought
PHIL 552 Judaism: Religion and Text
PHIL 605 Metaphysics
PHIL 610 Theory of Knowledge
PHIL 611 Philosophy of Perception
PHIL 620 Philosophy of Mind
PHIL 621 Minds, Brains and Computers
PSY 455 Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Psychology
PSY 456 Psychology of Human Sexual Behavior
PSY 461 Introduction to Industrial/Organizational Psychology
PSY 465 The Psychology of Work Life Stress
PSY 466 Training and Development in Organizations
PSY 472 Introduction to Legal Psychology
PSY 474 Psychology of Social Justice
PSY 475 Psychology of Policing
PSY 494 Cognitive Psychology
PSY 495 The Psychology of Human Memory
PSY 525 Community Psychology
PSY 531 Psycholinguistics
PSY 547 Social Conflict and Conflict Resolution
PSY 571 Intermediate Psychological Statistics
PSY 601 Theoretical Backgrounds in Psychology
PSY 645 Group Processes
PSY 668 The Psychology of Leadership
Public Administration
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
Urban Studies
All courses can be counted towards Complementary Studies for the PLSI major
Women and Gender Studies
WGS 300GW: Politics of Gender, Race and Nation
WGS 150: Women and Gender in U.S. History and Society
WGS 160: Gender, Politics, and Citizenship
WGS 300GW: Gender, Race, and Nation - GWAR
WGS 301: Women, Gender and Community
WGS 304: Gender and Popular Culture
WGS 400: Research Methods in Women and Gender Studies
WGS 423: Geographic Perspectives on Gender, Environment and Development
WGS 445: Gendered Borders: Latinas and Globalization
WGS 485: Women and Media
WGS 505: Gender, Sexuality, and Latino Communities
WGS 511: Women and Violence
WGS 513: Gender, War, and Militarism
WGS 514: Women and the Prison Industrial Complex
WGS 515: Gender, Race, and Reproduction
WGS 533: Women, Men, and Cultural Change
WGS 534: Gender and the Law
WGS 536: Gender, Globalization and Women's Human Rights
WGS 552: Transgender Identities and Communities
WGS 554: Gender and Global Migration
WGS 561: Women, Ethnicity, and Social Movements
WGS 562: History of African American Women
WGS 563: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Mobility
WGS 564: Women Writers and the Politics of Decolonization
WGS 570: Women, Gender, Policy, and Justice
WGS 571: Gender, Poverty, and Globalization
WGS 578: Women, Globalization, and Ecology
WGS 593: Gender, Health, and the Environment
WGS 601: Gender, Tourism, and Neoliberalism
WGS 602: Feminist Cultural Activism
WGS 612: Queer Theory
WGS 621: Feminist Theories
WGS 681: Genetics, Biotechnology and the Politics of Difference


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Back on April 27th, I received an inquiry from one of my newsletter subscribers. I'll call her Anne. Anne and I talked about her job search issues. She told me about her background, including her recent training in interior design. Here's what I remembered about her interior design experience from that brief part of our conversation: Her design instructor told her she had perfect color sense. She helped a friend's father who was disappointed with a color consultation from an expert. The father was thrilled with Anne's suggestions.
10 weeks later, my friend Lorraine told me she was experiencing color angst about her livingroom. Anne immediately sprang to my mind. I told Lorraine about her perfect color sense. And, I arranged for them to meet. Lorraine was very pleased with Anne's help, including her suggestions on how to change the furniture arrangement too.
I remembered Anne because she told me those two stories. Here's why:
- She was specific about her interior design expertise – color.
- She described herself from another's point of view – her instructor. That made her statement sound credible.
- She told me about how she fixed problems – the father's disappointment when he hired a color expert.
It was the sum total of both stories that really convinced me of her skills. Had she simply said she took an interior design course, I wouldn't have remembered her expertise nor would I have asked her to help Lorraine.
So, what does this have to do with interviews? It proves that carefully crafted stories stay memorable weeks or even months after they're told. Anne's ability to describe her specific expertise in convincing ways opened up a new opportunity for her. And, using interview stories can open new doors for you too.
For tips, tricks and techniques on creating memorable interview stories, read these newsletter articles: Stories Interviewers Will Remember and Making Stories Stick.

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tent-alt-msg - 3/22/02
Alternatives to tents for SCA events.
NOTE: See also the files: SCA-gates-msg, pavilions-msg, tent-dsguises-msg, thatch-roofs-msg, wattle-daub-msg, buildings-msg.
This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday.
This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org
I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter.
The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors.
Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s).
Thank you,
Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous
Stefan at florilegium.org
From: meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org (meg)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re:Sleeping at Pennsic (was newbie)
Date: Wed, 18 May 94 09:43:01 EDT
Organization: Stonemarche Network Co-op
Megan here.
I sleep on a bed. Well, actually, IN a bed, a shutbed to be precise. It
is period in appearance, if not in material. The mattress is a foam
mattress with eggcrate overlay for extra softness. I cover it with a
white bedsheet, several warm blankets of handspun handwoven wool, and
overall a brocaide cloth. My pillow is a feather pillow. I have a window
on my right which opens out and up as a shutter. When I am lucky, Ellisif
plays her gentle dulcimer beneath my window as I wake. When I am unlucky,
some *6x$%&(&x:+$^!!! scot plays wretched bagpipes. (well, actually this
only happened once. After what I said to him, I doubt if he'll ever
ON the left I have a curtain which is attached to rings that slide on a
dowel to close off the 3 foot opening to my bed.At night I close these
curtains, and enjoy the warmth of my cosy bed. It also keeps out the
Above my bed is a storage loft. I used to have a young apprentice who
slept up there. Beneath my bed is another storage area, curtained off so
you can't see the refrigerator where I hide my medications...
Also, in the bed compartment are shelves. The ones you can see from
outside the compartment have period looking containers on them, which
hold mundane necessities. The ones you can't see have the bug spray, the
matches, the alarm clock, the emergency flashlight. I also hang my hat on
a peg on the wall above my feet.
Outside my bed, hanging on the wall, I keep an orinale, like any sensible
G'night all!
BTW, when it rains really hard, I close my window and go back to sleep.
In 1994: Linda Anfuso
In the Current Middle Ages: Megan ni Laine de Belle Rive
In the SCA, Inc: sustaining member # 33644
meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org | YYYYY |
From: meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org (meg)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Re:Sleeping at Pennsic (was newbie)
Date: Tue, 24 May 94 02:11:42 EDT
Organization: Stonemarche Network Co-op
KGORMAN at ARTSPAS.watstar.uwaterloo.ca writes:
> Eyrny, commenting on Megan's bed...
> Gee, you don't need a tent any more, you've got everything you need in your
> bed!
> But how do you transport the thing?
> Eyrny
Megan again. Oops, sorry, I forget that there are folks here on the
bridge who have not been to Pennsic. A brief explanation is in order
I got tired of camping in a tent. They leak, they are too cold at night,
to hot by day, the are dank, they blow over in 60 mph winds, and artwork
just isn't safe in them.
I built a house. A 14 foot long little house, mounted on a flatbed
trailer, which used to travel behind my van but now lives permanantly at
Cooper's lake. It was so wonderful that now my husband built his own
there to house his toy shop, and friends of ours built a version which
can be disassembled and transported in the back of a school bus.
Houses...the wave of the future.
Actually,and I may have posted this trivia before....there is good
precedent for what we are doing. The methodist campground at Oak Bluffs
on Martha's Vineyard started out as a tent city like Pennsic, with
members of their group meeting each summer. Then they added wooden sides
to their tents for stability in bad weather, like Aelfwine's house. Then
they roofed the houses over, added porches, and they became permanent
structures. This evolution took place over 2 generations. I guess as we
get older, we will want our creature comforts more and more.
My little house is a model roughly based on the temporary fair cabins
erected at the Lyons Fair in the 15-16 centuries. Claus's is a model of a
Scandinavian house of the early 16th century. We sleep and merchant out
of our houses. The wheels are disguised with boxes, and the bases are
framed with fake brick, which passes the 10 foot test, if sufficiently
augmented with barrels, boxes, plants, etc.
I also plant a garden, with actual period rose bushes (my favorite is
from a slip belonging to Henry VIII's mother) lillies, medicinal herbs,
dyestuffs, pinks, and a hedge fence. Each year we add something new. Last
year we added a porch to the toyshop and a mullet glass window to my
I figure it this way...some people spend thousands each year on vacations
anyway...we have our vacation one step further: we not only escape from
our mundane jobs, we escape from our mundane selves as well.
Megan, warm and dry by night, cool and shaded by day. Life is good.
Pigs still don't fly, tho' ;-)
In 1994: Linda Anfuso
In the Current Middle Ages: Megan ni Laine de Belle Rive
In the SCA, Inc: sustaining member # 33644
meg at tinhat.stonemarche.org | YYYYY |
From: jab2 at stl.stc.co.uk (Jennifer Ann Bray)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Re:Sleeping at Pennsic (was newbie)
Date: 25 May 94 13:30:00
Organization: STC Technology Ltd., London Road, Harlow, UK.
>Actually,and I may have posted this trivia before....there is good
>precedent for what we are doing. The methodist campground at Oak Bluffs
>on Martha's Vineyard started out as a tent city like Pennsic, with
>members of their group meeting each summer. Then they added wooden sides
>to their tents for stability in bad weather, like Aelfwine's house. Then
>they roofed the houses over, added porches, and they became permanent
>structures. This evolution took place over 2 generations. I guess as we
>get older, we will want our creature comforts more and more.
I can do you an earlier precedant for buildings replacing tents than
In Iceland the annual law gathering or allthing was held on the same
spot each year. Vikings came in their longships from far and wide,
they set up their large tents and camped out whilst the allthing took
We know where they camped because they left behind stone walls. A roof
needs a lot of maintenance, and would have been awkward to build as
the allthing site didn't have ready supplies of timber. So the vikings
built stone walls and used their tents as the roofs. This gave them
more room than the plain tent would have done, and the tent roof could
be securely anchored to the walls using the same system that tied it
to the ship sides when the tents were pitched across the long ships
decks at sea.
All this took place a millenium ago, all that remains today is the
overgrown walls and the mound where the lawspeaker stood.
Vanaheim vikings
From: BHAMILTON at wsmr-emh81.army.MIL (Brent R. Hamilton)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Pennsic trailers
Date: 4 May 1995 11:34:00 -0400
Organization: The Internet
A couple of years ago, after a period of much travel to SCA camping
events, I retired my tent and built myself a small camping trailer. Since
then, I've been much more comfortable at events and my pre- and post-
event prep time is reduced because I leave most of my gear in the trailer
between events. Set-up and take-down time is also reduced, so I can pull
into the site at the usual late hour and have a place to sleep without
waking up other campers with all of that pole clanging and stake pounding.
Its also nice to be able to lock up most of my gear when I'm out fighting
etc., a increasingly more important concern at larger events.
I'm pretty well satisfied with the convenience of this type of camping,
but I have given some thought to the impact that we RV types are having
on the SCA culture. We are still in the minority, although the few
comments that I've had from tent campers have been more like good-natured
ribbing about my luxurious lifestyle ;).
My rule of thumb for minimizing impact on the period feel of the site has
been to hide myself among the vehicles out in the parking lot. Unfortunately,
most event autocrats don't seem to give much thought to RV's and the parking
areas are pretty far away from the field, especially when you're carrying
armor. For some of the less accessible sites, I'm currently planning on
putting up some of those reed screens and concealing my trailer down
among the tents. I'm working on the same 'out of sight out of mind'
theory that people use for plastic armor, ice chests etc. I think that this
should be acceptable for any area except the Enchanted Ground's.
Anybody want to throw in an opinion? I welcome your comments or criticisms.
Breanainn O' Coinghiollain (DISCREET RV heretic)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: ojid.wbst845 at xerox.com (Orilee Ireland-Delfs)
Subject: Re: Pennsic trailers
Organization: Xerox Corporation, Webster NY
Date: Fri, 5 May 1995 16:53:43 GMT
Our Baron and Baroness have purchased a small camping trailer
to take to camping events and such.
They have painted the outside to resemble the walls of a stone
castle, added detachable crenellations to the top as well as
fold out pieces in front and back to hide the trailer hitch (and
as a side effect provide some shade to the ends of the trailer).
The windows have been "leaded" with paint, and the whole
thing looks wonderful! If you go to Pennsic, locate
the Barony of Thescorre (look for the three ravens) and ask to
see Devon and Daedra's castle. It's delightful.
The only problem they have now is that our annual camping event in
July is held on the other side of a gorge in a State Park and there
is no way to get the trailer in there (you either haul your stuff
over the footbridge or you take a chance with your shocks and
undercarriage by using the access road - which, if it's wet, could be
hazardous for even a 4-wheel drive vehicle).
So, a little imagination and some well-applied paint may help
you to "disguise" your trailer.
Devon and Daedra say it was worth the effort just to see the looks
on the faces of other drivers as they cruise the interstate with it
behind them!
From: zaphod at zoology.ubc.ca (Lance R. Bailey)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: not a tent, a SHED!
Date: 23 Apr 1996 02:51:59 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
i've been tossing about an idea, and i'm looking for feedback.
i've spent a lot of nights in mundane (nylon) tents, (or a leanto in
winter) and for the sca i instead am thinking of making a house that
comes apart.
each side would be a series of sections; 3.5' by 6', made from 2X2
studs/plates and 1/4" plywood. an 11.5' long wall would thus be 3
sections bolted together and then all three to a final long 2X2 acting
as an additional bottom plate.
end walls would be 7 feet long (two sections bolted together) and have
a slope built into the top plate create a roof that rises from 6' up to
8' over the 3.5' (rise of 30 deg. enough for runoff).
the roof is still up in the air (look, look, a twit wannabee!) but will
probably plywood sections for support, a poly tarp for waterproofing
and a final layer of a thatch look-alike (straw or burlap or something
yet to be suggested). i instead might try to get away with a beam for a
ridge with some poles for rafters and then the poly followed by
decorative cover.
each section should be light enough to carry, with a dolly or hand
truck of some sort i could get them into camp pretty quick for assembly
on site.
by painting it right, it should resemble a stone shed. i realize i
could do this with frame and canvas, but i have no facilities to paint
and dry the canvas, and a stone house that flaps in the wind holds
little appeal. i like someone being able to come up and *knock* on the
any comments? anyone else seen this done? anyone else done this?
devin o raudh, Lion's Gate, An Tir
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: jschmidt at netcom.com (John R. Schmidt)
Subject: Re: not a tent, a SHED!
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 14:53:15 GMT
Master Fionn MacPhail, OL, built such a thing here after being inspired
by Pennsic, and the structures and cathedral there. He used 2x4 and full
sheets of plywood, giving an 8' tall wall, and canvas over a ridgepole for
the roof. The sections were made, assembled, painted, and marked for
re-assembly. To make the shed rigid, crosspieces (again 2x4) were placed
across the short side of the roof.
Decoration made the shed look half timbered, and one section had a door,
and three windows. It is a marvelous thing, but a bit too labor intensive
for just a weekend event.
I believe he has it for sale, but it is in the South Bay area of the
San Francisco Bay, a bit far to see.
Painting/Drilling/Bolting crew on this project
From: jmb31 at cornell.edu (Jim Brewster)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: not a tent, a SHED!
Date: 23 Apr 1996 21:33:22 GMT
Organization: Boyce Thompson Institute
Master Seppo Temminen of Sterlynge Vayle has designed and built a
fantastic 2-story Tudor-style merchant's house with ground-floor space for
a potter, a jeweler, and a couple other crafters, which has also served as
a tavern. It has two spacious lofts with sleeping room for 2-3 adults in
each one.
The house is built with a fairly elaborate post and beam frame, plywood
walls, and a canvas roof. It comes apart fairly easily and fits on a ~15
ft. trailer. If you were at Pennsic the last two years, you would have
seen it, last year next to the food vendors. And of course it will be back
again this year as he stored it at the site. Hauling it 300+ miles really
is a pain!
Raising and Razing Crew
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
From: ederd at bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Dani Eder)
Subject: Re: Shed, not a tent
Organization: The Boeing Company
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 23:14:09 GMT
v081lu33 at ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu (TRISTAN CLAIR DE LUNE/KEN MONDSCHEIN) writes:
> I've really been wanting to do something similar for the past
>couple of years, and I've even drawn up plans. Mine, though, would
>be put together to look like a half-timber cottage, with a tarp roof
>that would have straw glued to it.
> The only problem is, how would I get such a construction from
>New York to Pennsic, short of a U-Haul?
I'm considering building a 'little house on the trailer' as my next
'tent' project. I already have a 7x16 foot flatbed trailer (which
was pretty full last year going to Pennsic). The attraction of
having a 'house' is that packing would consist of hooking up
the trailer, and setting up camp would consist of unhooking the
trailer and dropping hinged underpinning panels to hide the wheels.
In case anyone else is interested in such a project, the trailer I
bought cost $900 and can carry 7000 lb gross and 5000 lb net.
Another attraction of a little house is to be able to use a real
roof, and to be high enough off the ground to avoid getting wet.
Daniel of Raven's Nest
From: ailith at cannet.com at cannet.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Trailers at pennsic
Date: 5 Jun 1996 10:48:36 GMT
Organization: APK - Internet Provider for Ohio.
In <4oo2g9$6np at tribune.concentric.net>, greeder at concentric.net writes:
>I would definitly cover, or otherwise hide, that popup. Me thinks that it
>would be very out of place. With a little carfull placement, some curtains...
>It could work.
>That said; Be aware that I don't know what the actual regulations are
>concerning this. I have heard that campers are not allowed at SCA events.
>If that is the case then it doesn't matter how well you hide it. (or maybe
>you will just have to hide it _realy_ well [ grin ].
>Does anyone know the actual rules ??
I don't know about the actual rules, however, I have seen at least one
pop-up at Estrella in years past. It was cleverly disguised as a wee tiny
stone keep, as I recall. They added a canvas skirting around the aluminum
sides and painted it and the top (I think) to resemble stones walls.
From: bwoodruf at lcp.com
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Trailers at pennsic
Date: 5 Jun 1996 17:53:09 GMT
Organization: Thomson Professional Publishing
ailith at cannet.com at cannet.com writes:
>I have seen at least one pop-up at Estrella in years past. It was cleverly >disguised as a wee tiny stone keep, as I recall. ...
> Ailith
The Baron and Baroness of Thescorre (East) have had a trailer for the past few years at Pennsic that is quite cleverly disguised as a castle. They use a wooden frame to extend the ends as towers and also cover the lower/wheel area. It is painted to resemble stonework. They made sure to seek permission from the Coopers in advance and have had no problems with it. I have also seen appropriately disguised pop-ups. I believe that in general, trailers are not allowed at Pennsic, but with a good disguise and advance permission, it can be managed.
- Kathira um Rashid
From: lobel at is.nyu.edu (Sheldon Lobel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Period Trailer
Date: 6 Jun 1996 16:20:45 GMT
Organization: New York University
I need some helpfull advice from engineers, physicists, and such technical
A bit ago I found some images of Kipchak tents (10th-12th cent.).
This is basically a large wooden box on wheels, open to the sky, with the
top covered by a triangle tent. The tent seems to have a central pole with
the bottom of the tent attached to the sides of the box. The Kipchaks
lived in these full time and hitched them to horses for transport. The
pictures show a number of folks peeking out - implying a fairly large (in
my estimate 8 or 9 foot) floor area.
I've been toying with building one but haven't the knowledge necessary to
make it sturdy enough for hitching to my car on the way from Brooklyn to
Thus, what I'm looking for is specs on materials and construction. Ie:
type of wood, necessary thickness, brakets necessary, type of join
necessary, etc.
Illustration: /\
/ \
/ \ fabric tent
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/ \
/ \
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|| | | ||
|| | wood box | ||
|| | | ||
|| | | ||
|| | | ||
|| -------------------------- ||
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^------- wheels ---------------^
Any help would be much apreciated.
Thank you.
Nahum ha Kuzar
From: dave.calafrancesco at drakkar.mhv.net (David Calafrancesco)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Period Trailer
Date: 06 Jun 96 20:15:48
Organization: Druid's Grove FIDO -> Internet Gateway
lobel at is.nyu.edu wrote in a message to All:
li> I need some helpfull advice from engineers, physicists, and
li> such technical folks.
li> A bit ago I found some images of Kipchak tents (10th-12th
li> cent.).
Neat.... but don't leave us hanging... where did you find them?!?!? name your
sources pretty please ;)
li> This is basically a large wooden box on wheels, open
li> to the sky, with the top covered by a triangle tent. The
li> tent seems to have a central pole with the bottom of the
li> tent attached to the sides of the box.
Sounds like a standard 'officers' style tent attached to the sides instead of
the ground. Also called a wedge and seen used by civ war and rev war
re-enactors (sans trailer). So canvas will be easy to make.
li> The Kipchaks lived in these full time and hitched them to
li> horses for transport. The pictures show a number of folks
li> peeking out - implying a fairly large (in my estimate 8 or 9
li> foot) floor area.
I assume you mean an 8 or 9 foot long floor area by circa 6-7 feet wide. For a
total of 63 square feet.
li> I've been toying with building one but haven't the
li> knowledge necessary to make it sturdy enough for hitching to
li> my car on the way from Brooklyn to Pennsic.
Ahh... well let me help you in that matter... you don't build the trailer part.
You go and locate and purchase a decent utility trailer whose box/floor has
rotted away but whose wheels and frame are in fine shape. Old pop-up travel
trailers (campers) are perfect for something like this. I would use the style
that has the wheels underneath the floor (for reasons I will get into in a
minute). Also look for a trailer with a single box beam hitch versus the
triangle style (again to be explained).
Depending on condition I would strip all the old surfaces off the frame (leave
the floor if it is in very good condfition. If you are lucky enough to get a
whole trailer in decent condition then you would want to just add enough wood
around the box to make the box look proper.
Otherwise you will use 3/4" outdoor, marine or pressure treated grade plywood
for the floor. You will make two back sections, one will have the requisite
lighting units attached and the other will have the brackets for the tent pole
as well as a nice little door to ease entry.
The assembly would be by interior brace/support. Lay the plywood on the deck of
the frame if you need to replace the deck. Around the 2 sides and front attach
a 2x2 to the outer edge of the deck with good decking screws up from the bottom
into the 2x2. Across the back you would have the 2x2 cleat stop where your door
will be placed. At all corners and where the door would be add a 2x2x(height of
sides) in all 4 corners so that you effectively have posts standing up. Attach
the side walls to these posts screwing liberally from the outside into the 2x2
cleat. With plywood you always want to screw into the solid wood. You should
also glue the joints together as you screw them to make the strongest joint.
Use the glue that comes in a caulking gun tube and is designed for framing and
sheathing houses.
Alternatively you could build up your sides using lapped siding (much more
expensive), or a type of plywood called T1-11 cut so the side runs the length
of the 4x8 sheet might give you enough texture and look to satisfy you. Check
your local lumber yards for what you can afford and what will look good enough
for you. If you are a glutton for punishment you can obtain rough cut barn
siding to more closely approximate what their texture would be like.
Height of the sides will be dependant on the type of material you use as well
as what your estimates are from the pictures you are using. Assume the people
are smaller than they are today and adjust accordingly as they would have built
for their stature we should build for ours as well.
Anyway, you attach the siding to the vertically mounted 2x2s you can add
additional 2x2s with 45 degree cuts on the end as diagonal braces to the
vertical corner pieces for even more stability. Generally the vertical pieces
should be stable enough. You will want to add a 2x2 top rail around the wall
pieces for additional stability. Every 2' or so you would place another
vertical piece attached to the top and bottom rails as well as the siding. Make
sure the siding extends low enough to cover the metal frame of the trailer.
By screwing the corners together through the 2x2 you have each side supporting
it's adjacent side. This plan faulters when we get to the back end because of
the door. You should probably make a 3-6" stub wall on the side where the door
will be to give a diagonal brace to the back corner of the trailer.
I mentioned earlier you can make two back ends to allow for easy swap of
lighting equipment. As an alternative you can use a screwdriver and remove the
lights when you get to camp and push the wires (with a quick connector system
for easy removal) back through the hole. Ignore the holes and treat them as
another knot hole. If you choose the remove the lights system then you only
need one back door assembly and your trailer will consequently be sturdier.
Otherwise you will have to attach the two different back panels using some type
of bolt or other arrangement to allow changing.
Seeing as how NY State requires amber side clearance lights I'd opt for
removable lights and just remove them for the duration. I will outline what I
would do for the door and rear section. Assuming your trailer is 6' 6" wide
(rather standard size if I recall correctly) I would place the door on one or
the other side of center approximately 6-8" from the side piece. I would also
go 6-8" from the center point of the trailer. So, for the 6.5' trailer the door
would be up to 27" wide. If necessary you can reduce the distance past the
center point to 3" for a 30" door but most camper doors are smaller than 27".
There should definately be a diagonal inside the wall for the back section.
Whether an angle bracket (angled into the bed of the trailer) is needed to
support the tent pole will depend on how sturdy your construction is.
#\ # # # * /#h # l#\ /#
#\\ # # # * //#id # a#\\ //#
# \\ # # # *// #no # t# \\ // #
# \\ # # # // #go # c# \\// #
# \\ # # # // #er # h# V/ #
# \\ # # # //* #d================# // #
Use 2+" hardwood closet rod for the tent pole and you will want to attach a
cross piece between the poles to reduce the stress on the pole mounting. By
adding the cross pole you reduce entirely the tendancy to pull the poles into
the center of the trailer.
You will locate some long nails and predrill the ends of the two poles just a
bit smaller than the nails and drive the nails into the poles. Leaving only
enough to go through most of the cross bar (more closet rod). Cut off the head
of the nail and file the end over round. Make sure none of it extends through
the cross piece and round the end of the cross pieces. You don't need any
tiedowns on the end of the poles so extending the nails through the canvas is
not at all necessary. Consequently that is one less water leak you need to
worry about.
When you sew your canvas make sure you allow for a generous overlap near the
door to keep rain out, also make an overlapping flap to cover the attachments
you use for the canvas to the top of the walls. I would probably use a grommet
strip and have holes spaced every 6 inches or so and lace or tie the canvas to
the holes. The flap should be circa 6" to keep rain from entering.
You can drill a few holes every couple of inches in the lower section of your
poles to allow you to tighten the canvas by raising the pole and inserting a
rounded end nail through the hole above your top bracket. The bracket can be
made out of available cable/pipe tie down clamps (electrical/plumbing dept) or
made from flat steel/iron stock cold pounded into the correct shape. Attach
some 2x4 blocks to the wall where the poles are attached to distribute the
pressure to the wall instead of on the screw of the clamp only.
The wheels of the actual trailer are under the bed of trailer but visible from
the sides so we create a fake wheel to cover them. Using either 1/2" plywood or
several 1x6 pine boards (with cross cleats) cut a large (3+') wheel. You will
attach using a fake hub looking arrangement (ie bolted through to the wall with
some blocks behind it and on the outside looking like a wagon wheel hub. These
are purely decorative and hold no weight whatsover. I'd probably dig a bit into
the ground to give the impression of great weight from the wagon, after all
wagons always left ruts in the roads.
You will also need 4 jacks in the four corners of the trailer to keep the floor
stable when you get in and walk around. I would use standard travel trailer
jack stands and cover them in some way (a 2 sides wooden cover or something
similar). You will also want to make a long wooden 3 sidedd chanel box to cover
the front hitch post as that is not safely removed and a wooden hitch harness
would have been used instead of the metal box beam. Decorate it with cross
beams for horses if desired.
li> Thus, what I'm looking for is specs on materials and
li> construction. Ie: type of wood, necessary thickness, brakets
li> necessary, type of join necessary, etc.
Hope this was sufficient... ;)
Please send the references to the pictures you found as well as personal
information so I can credit you with the idea as this could make a nice A&S
Haraldr Bassi, Frosted Hills, East
haraldr at drakkar.mhv.net
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave at drakkar.mhv.net
From: lobel at is.nyu.edu (Sheldon Lobel)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Period Trailer
Date: 9 Jun 1996 21:29:29 GMT
Organization: New York University
David Calafrancesco (dave.calafrancesco at drakkar.mhv.net) wrote:
: lobel at is.nyu.edu wrote in a message to All:
: li> I need some helpfull advice from engineers, physicists, and
: li> such technical folks.
: li> A bit ago I found some images of Kipchak tents (10th-12th
: li> cent.).
: Neat.... but don't leave us hanging... where did you find them?!?!? name your
: sources pretty please ;)
Artamanov, "History of the Jewish Khazars"
(I may be a bit off on the title. he wrote two books on the Khazars, this
is the big fat one.)
The book is in Russian - I don't know if there is a Russian translation.
The picture is from a Russian manuscript.
Thanks for the practical advice.
Nahum ha Kuzar
From: randy at stonemarche.org
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Trailers at pennsic
Date: 7 Jun 1996 03:05:09 GMT
Organization: randy or amy at stonemarche.org
I know of at least two families from our Barony that take their trailers to
PENNSIC. They have a large canvas/sailcloth like material covering for the
trailer to wear. This gives it a pavilion style look. The real give away is
tires showing because they didn't make it long enough and the cool white
florscent style camp lights glowing inside. I know of one gentle that made an
elephant out of his van. Most intriguing eh.
Lord Dorian of Whispering Oaks
[mda Randy Perryman]
From: Tanya Guptill <tguptill at teleport.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:43:25 -0700
Rich Hicks wrote:
> This summer my husband and I plan to build a portable house to bring to
> Pennsic. The response this announcement usually brings from most
> scadians is a long strange stare and then some useful comments about how
> we should go about this project. The house will be a mock wattle and
> daub peasant's hut. Any suggestions anyone has about how to go about
> this project would be useful. Specifically, I am looking for some way
> to make the outside of the house textured to resemble the uneven surface
> of wattle and daub. Also I want to make it light. It needs to come
> home in a trailer. The basic construction will be planks and probably
> foam boards, not styrofoam however (too brittle and too flammable) I
> know it is a strange and crazy project even by SCA standards but I
> intend to see it through. Any constructive advice would be much
> appreciated. -Jocelyne de Vaselais
Actually, there are several people that have been kind enough to make
their portable house information available on the Internet.
There is a list under the PORTABLE STRUCTURES/BUILDINGS on
http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/tentlinks2.htm, but the specific pages
that you may want to view are
Plans for a portable 'stone' shed
http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/house1portable1.pdf and
are parts I and II on building a 'thatched' roof structure, very much
like what you describe. There is a picture of the cottage at
http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/toc.htm. The first two links are in
PDF format, so you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view them.
Building Le Poulet Gauche, a 16th Century tavern that disassembles
Griffin's Den--Detailed photos of assembly of large, wooden framed structure
I wish you and yours best of luck in your endeavors! If you have it
finished by Pennsic, I would love to take a picture of it to add to my
web page.
Your servant,
Mira Silverlock McKendrick
From: "Anastasia" <anastasia at ime.net>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 21:01:34 -0400
Organization: Internet Maine/HarvardNet
If you haven't done so already, then you might want to check out the website
for the Knowne World Architectural Guild, at
Syr Arloff, the editor, built the portable cottage on the first page, and
gives instructions for building it in issue one (which is also on line). I
know he used it at Pennsic for one year, possibly two. Or, you can email
him directly at mpower at ime.net (His email is listed several times on the site).
I feel sure he will have great enthusiasm for your project.
Hope that helps! I look forward to seeing the results at Pennsic!
From: christopher gilman <chris at globaleffects.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: 22 Jun 1999 12:05:27 PDT
Organization: Global Effects Inc.
If you use fiberglass and polyester resin or "Bondo" (or any cheaper auto
body filler) laid up on plywood. (you can add white pigment to make it
white or paint it with a flat white paint) This will give you a simulated
daub that will be flexible and light. This added between pine boards that
have been burned with a torch then wire brushed this will simulate an aged
beam. Then clear coat the beam with a brushed on coat of polyester resin to
seal it and give the fake daub a good surface to stick to. With all of these
technique's try them on scraps of materials with a good photo of the real
thing right in front of you. DON'T RELY ON YOUR MEMORY! The biggest mistake
people make in reproducing something, is not having good reference in front
of them as they work.
I've been doing this type of thing for 20 years professionally. If you would
like to see some of the things we have built, My web page is
If you need reference look for a book called, "The English Mediaeval House"
by Margaret Wood, 1994 Studio Editions Ltd. ISBN 1 85891 167 2
Chris Gilman/ Sir Gaston Bonneville de la Croix
From: christopher gilman <chris at globaleffects.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: 22 Jun 1999 18:27:17 PDT
Organization: Global Effects Inc.
william thomas powers wrote:
> <snip>
> >This added between pine boards that
> >have been burned with a torch then wire brushed this will simulate an aged
> >beam.
> <snip>
> >The biggest mistake
> >people make in reproducing something, is not having good reference in front
> >of them as they work.
> <snip>
> Another common mistake is to age something that would have been brand new
> to your personna---that cruck house you built should look brand new and not
> like it was 600 years old
> This shows up in A&S quite often: people artificially age items to make them
> look like a piece in a museum with centuries of use/abuse/neglect when the
> piece *should* look like you just made it; or if it is a heirloom like your
> father or grandfather made it and not like your great-great-great-great-great
> -great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great
> -great-great-grandfather made it; but in a style that would not appear for
> another 600 years after his death...
> wilelm the smith
This is a very good point. However raw oak lumber would have been aged/or sun
dried before it was used. Sometimes they painted the beams with pitch to seal
them. Also the grain in pine is much finer than oak. The wire brush technique
gives the wood the appearance of heavy grain, at about 1/10 the cost of solid oak beams. One must also add some type of aging and artistic touch, because most
people expect the item to look a certain way. If it looks too "New" then it has a tendency to look fake. But as you pointed out this can go too far and I fight this all the time in movies.
C. Gilman
From: powers at cis.ohio-state.edu (william thomas powers)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: 23 Jun 1999 13:56:05 GMT
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
>> Another common mistake is to age something that would have been brand new
>> to your personna---that cruck house you built should look brand new and not
>> like it was 600 years old
>This is a very good point. However raw oak lumber would have been aged/or sun
>dried before it was used.
I work a lot with air dried lumber; it doesn't look like the torch/brush has been used on it---even the pieces of a 200 year old barn!
> Sometimes they painted the beams with pitch to seal them.
I am more familiar with the scandanavian technique of stripping conifers and allowing the tree to form a layer of pitch before cutting it down and using it for building.
> Also the grain in pine is much finer than oak. The wire brush technique
>gives the wood the appearance of heavy grain, at about 1/10 the cost of solid
>oak beams.
Well if you are trying to fake oak instead of using pine for pine which was used for buildings in certain areas---though the grain on pine just doesn't look like oak no mater what you do; especially the european oaks.
> One must also add some type of aging and artistic touch, because most
>people expect the item to look a certain way. If it looks to "New" then it has
>a tendency to look fake. But as you pointed out this can go to far and I fight
>this all the time in movies.
Well this is a personal call; I'd rather educate folk than help cement them in their errors. I've always found that real wear and weathering do a sufficient job; of course using recycled wood can jumpstart the aging process.
william the smith [who has] got beech drying in the garage attic, maple and osage orange drying in the basement and dunnage lumber piled where ever there's room.
From: mizzi at aol.com (Mizzi)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Date: 23 Jun 1999 15:00:03 GMT
> One must also add some type of aging and artistic touch, because most
>people expect the item to look a certain way. If it looks to "New" then it has
>a tendency to look fake. But as you pointed out this can go to far and I fight
>this all the time in movies.
Having just read "The Ties that Bound", a history book of family life of the
English Peasantry in the 13th/14th cent. I have a comment on wattle & daub
houses. The author confirms that they were the most common type of housing
used by the peasants and that they were indeed small, 3 rooms at the outside.
Lofts were pretty common and used for storage and sleeping.
But about the age of the house. She found evidence that a particular house
rarely lasted more than about 20 years. By the time the kid inherits (son or
daughter) there was so much repair to be done on the old house that the
inheritor would simply build a new one. A big advantage of wattle & daub as a
construction technique is that it's quick and cheap being made from readily
available materials. OTOH It's very suceptible to water dammage if the roof
leaks and thatched roofs did eventually leak. It was a slowish process but over
time the roof developed leaks and the walls developed weaknesses. Yes you
could repair but it was a loosing battle and you eventually picked a spot not
too far away on your home acre or so and built another house. Sometimes the
old house was used as a barn. Other times when the old house was in better
shape than usual it was the oldsters in the family that got a new little 'dower
house'. In later centuries, when construction changed to stone and timber
houses were preserved from generation to generation and got that real 'old'
Just a note in passing. The prospect of more neat looking dewllings at
Pennsic is exciting. I wish you well.
YIS, Mairgret
From: nostrand at macol.net (Barbara Nostrand)
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: Seek advice for portable house
Organization: de Moivre Institute
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:28:39 -0500
After two Pennsics, your hut will never pass for new. The best thing
to do is to finish your wood surfaces in the same way that they would
have been finished back when and then let nature take its course. If
you are impatient for it to look weathered, set it up in your back
yard for a couple of months. Wood tends to bleach out and turn grey
with age. This is accelarated by exposure to water. Finally, who says
that all houses were made out of oak? Please do not try to have your
wood pretend to belong to a different species. If you must have oak,
then pay for oak. Otherwise, find another species that was used in
your area of interest.
Your Humble Servant
Solveig Throndardottir
Amateur Scholar
Subject: [MedEnc] Costco Carports
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 08:31:51 -0700
From: "Mira (Tanya Guptill)" <tguptill at teleport.com>
To: MedievalEncampments at egroups.com
Timorra wrote:
> As am owner of the evil costco carport .. :) i understand what you mean
> I am currently in the process of converting it to something that is more
> presentable
Actually, the neatest adaptation of a Costco carport I've seen yet was
at the recent An Tir Crown. Someone had decided his new tent has the
same shape as an (admittedly small) thatched roof house. He put walls
on it, and a real wood door, and it was very interesting what a
difference these changes made to this tent! He told me his next thing
to do was paint the walls and put on a roll up straw 'thatch' roof. I
thought it was an interesting and original idea.
From: margali <margali at 99main.com>
Newsgroups: rec.org.sca
Subject: Re: tent/pavilion question
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2001 13:25:55 -0500
All of the tent suggestions are good, Panther Primitives, Four Seasons
Tentmasters and the like. If you really want something that is off-beat,
how about a gypsy varda?
Do keep inmind that you don't have to match your persona to anything
else [garb, camping gear, whatnot] if you don't want to ... many people
have generic pennsic personas that don't match their regular ones so
they can be comfortable in garb they wouldn't normally wear, or things
like viking tents or yurts that would not have been suitable for their
regular personas.
I have been lobbying my lord to make me a varda for non pennsic camping
as he is going to a new duty station 2 states away so we will either
not be camping together or will be arriving a 2 very different times.
This way, whether or not I have somebody to help me set things up or
load vehicles, I hitch up and schlep to the event, where I unhitch, camo
the modern wheels, put on the fake wheels and decorate. Pop the top and
I'm all set!
From: tollhase1 at aol.com
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:53:28 EDT
Subject: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig] garage tents or the walls came tumbling down.
Don't know about the thatch roof for sure. I just remember that it exists.
Will need to check on it.
Walls. There are many options. One of my dreams to is to make one like the
potter place in the bazaars area with a second floor.
Or course, you can paint canvas, plywood or vinyl as you mentioned. Taking
1-1/2 or thicker foam and carving stones, blocks, etc., is always possible.
Rasps, hand sander works quite well. For added strength cover with
cheesecloth/muslin. Cheap sheets from salvation army/good will are fine. And
a good polyvinyl glue (water proof) Then paint. Added texture with the use
of sand or saw dust for example. If you want grout, etc., clothes line, use
a mixture of glue and sawdust and a cake decorator.
These could be full sheets or blocks added to say Luan. Blocks could overlap
to hid seams. I have seen this foam as thick as 4." Used it for targets.
Remember Flame proof things. The foam has the added benefit of it being
insulation. Keep heat in or out. Windows could be added by the use of 1 x?
And Plexiglas painted with stained glass colours. Use of commercial fake
leading is available. However, I have found that the black Silicone tub water
sealer works as well and cheaper. These windows could open, have screens as
well as curtains. Doors are harder due to the stresses involved. I would
probably go with a canvas flap to make my life easier. Or one could use a
box frame with the door within. Drive spikes into the ground and tie
securely to the pipe structure of your tent.
A compromise could be a fabric background and the use of soft foam so it
could be rolled up. USE FLEXIBLE paint and glue. A product by Rosco called
flex-glue works well. Dye and paints can be added to this with diminishing
returns. This will tend to retain the curved shape even when up until the
sun helps it straighten out.
Would you prefer a half timbered look. Also easily done.
To: spca-wascaerfrig at yahoogroups.com
From: tollhase1 at aol.com
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 12:16:01 EDT
Subject: Re: [spca-wascaerfrig] garage tents or the walls came tumbling down.
So one could use cotton clothes lines as a grout look. Or, use a mixture of
saw dust, glue and or paint to make another type. The latter would need a
cake decorator to apply easily.
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So as you may have gathered I had surgery on my right hip about a month ago (late August, the day before Hurricane Irene came to town to be exact) and this has made much of my medieval crafting rather challenging for the last month. Because I could not put any weight on the leg, I could not spin or weave or drive my car, nor have been able to sit in a normal upright position for much of the month. The sitting part has been getting steadily better, I can now sit at the sewing machine for awhile anyway, though I have had to modify things at the ironing board so I can iron sitting down. Trying to iron on crutches is about ridiculous as it sounds (I tried, I really did). Staying in any one position for very long is still hard though, so I have not been making much progress on anything, which is is frustrating.
That should be changing though. They cleared me to start putting weight on the leg last week, and today the doctor said I could drive! Hurray! Such a small thing, but being house-bound for over a month has been really challenging. Just the psychological impact of knowing you can't go anywhere, never mind that you don't want to go anywhere or have anywhere to go, is pretty traumatizing. Tomorrow I get to give it a try, we need to be sure I can stop the car quickly if I need to, but all indications are that it should be fine. This also means I'm ok to spin at the wheel again, and work at the loom! Yay! So I can get back to working on the projects I want to be working on, at least in small bits.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Things have been a bit quiet around here for the past couple of weeks, partly because I've not been doing a whole lot of anything productive, and partly because I've been a bit distracted by a very off-topic project. Outside of my historical crafty interests, I knit and make jewelry and am in the beginning stages of (hopefully) starting a small business selling some of these things (hence the etsy link you see on this site). Well...my mom took one of the jewelry pieces to a group she belongs to in California and long story short I'm going to be selling at a trunk show in November. Yay! So I've been trying to get my inventory built up, get a website with a shopping cart together, and get business card and all that fun stuff together, all while still hoping around on crutches and unable to drive. Oh, and also going to physical therapy three times a week.
You can see the fruits of my labor-so-far here, at www.follyandnonsense.com. If nothing else, there is a picture of Molly, my dog, modeling one of my dog sweaters on the home page. :)
You can see the fruits of my labor-so-far here, at www.follyandnonsense.com. If nothing else, there is a picture of Molly, my dog, modeling one of my dog sweaters on the home page. :)
Sunday, September 18, 2011
A&S 50: Nine: Learn to Weave – Basic Tabby Structure, Rigid Heddle Loom
Tabby, also called plain weave, is the most basic of weave structures and a great place to start for new weavers. For my first weaving project, I decided I use to use the small 24 inch rigid heddle loom I already had, and work with tabby (partly because rigid heddles work best for tabby and partly because I had almost no prior weaving experience).
The basic structure is very simple. The weft threads travel over every other warp thread, alternating each row to create the weave. This can be achieved with finger manipulation or needle weaving, but the rigid heddle makes manipulating the warp threads much quicker and simpler, allowing the weaving to raise or lower the threads all in one motion. The primary disadvantage to this style of loom (aside from having only one heddle or shaft) is that the heddle is free-floating and doubles as the beater, making it difficult to maintain an even beat and keep the selvedges straight.
The cloth was tabby woven using a rigid heddle loom at 10 DPI at the full loom width of 24 inches. After weaving, the cloth was fulled in a washing machine. Pre-fulling, the weave was quite open and relatively even, though some areas were packed more tightly than others (this was my first major weaving project and the first time I had worked with a wool warp, so there was a bit of a learning curve in this process). After fulling, the weave evened out a great deal and packed down considerably. By the end of the fulling and dyeing process, the warp and weft were barely visible and a compact, water repellent fabric had been produced, as can be seen in the finished piece. This is significantly thicker and denser than the cloth used in the extant Dublin caps, but will serve as a useful warm layer at cold and wet events.
The cloth used to make my Dublin-style Viking hood had been intended for another project, but due to excess shrinkage in the fulling and dyeing process was not suitable for my intended use (a later period hood). After making a pair of mittens out of part of the length of fabric, I had a piece left which was just large enough to make this cap if I placed the fold along the back of my head rather than across the top (kismet!). As conservation of resources seems within the spirit of the time period, this alteration of the basic pattern seems to be plausible if not entirely supported by the archeology in Dublin and Jorvik.
Of the twelve caps and three remnants of caps studied in Heckett, nine of the caps and two of remnants are wool. All of the examples are tabby woven, with an even weave structure. All but one are classified as having an open weave. The wool caps are woven at a range of 12 to 23 warps per centimeter, with wefts ranging from 9 to 20 per centimeter. The cloth for all of the caps is lightweight and quite fine, and some of the silk is very delicate. At least some of the hoods seem to have been purpose-woven on narrow warps. All of the wool caps analyzed in Heckett have selvedges along two sides, while the silk caps all appear to have been cut to size from wider pieces of cloth. Most have not been analyzed for dye, but of those that have two were undyed, two showed traced of iron mordant.
Heckett, Elizabeth Wincott. Viking Age Headcoverings from Dublin. Royal Irish Academy, 2003.
Walton, Penelope Textiles, Cordage and Raw Fibre from 16-22 Coppergate,Council for British Archaeology, London, England 1989.
Viking Silk Cap, Yorkshire Museum (http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/life-in-viking-york/viking-silk-cap).
Crowfoot, Elisabeth. Textiles and Clothing c.1150-c.1450. Medieval Finds from Excavations in London, 4. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1992.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
A&S 50 Eight: Learn Tubular Tablet Weaving
The basic technique is quite simple - a few cards are threaded, usually all Z or all S, and all the weaving in carried out by always working from right to left (or left to right), carrying the weft thread under (or over) the work to create a tube. The band will spiral, or not, depending on which direction the weft is passed through the shed and whether you pass the weft over or under the band. Learning which combinations will produce the desired effect takes some experimentation, but a handy reference can be found in Cindy's Myers article on the purse strings, at http://www.silkewerk.com/tabletweaving/tubular.html.
My purse strings suffer from some unwanted spiraling, which due to my lack of technical understanding at the time, I was not readily able to control. I now realize that the areas free of spiral alternating with spiral were likely due to changes in the direction the cards turned. Had I turned the cards consistently in one direction, or changed the way I passed the weft when I changed my turning direction, I would have had a more consistent cord. I am looking forward to experimenting more with this technique as the cords produced are quite attractive and could be useful for many purposes. Unlike fingerlooped cords, there is no restriction on the length of cord that may be worked so this would be an excellent way to produce miles and miles of lacing cords.
Crowfoot, Elizabeth. Textiles and Clothing, c.1150-1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London). Boydell Press, 2001.
Myers, Cindy. Tubular Tablet-Weaving; Identifying and reconstructing the hanging cord from a 14th century embroidered purse. (http://www.silkewerk.com/tabletweaving/tubular.html) Last accessed Sept. 11, 2011. Originally published in Spring 2008 issue of TWIST.
Bag 8313-1863. 14th cen. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O115592/bag/
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Natural Dye Book
|I actually have the first edition of Wild Color, by Jenny Dean, and was quite pleased this morning to find out that there is a new, revised edition out now as the first one had gone out of print. This is a wonderful introductory book on natural dyeing. If you can only get one book on natural dyes, this would be the one to get! This book has been indispensable for all my natural dying experiments.
That being said, the first edition had a few organizational issues which have hopefully been resolved in this new revision. I'm tempted to order the new version myself just to find out, the book really is that useful. A very nice chart telling you what mordants and assists work best with each plant is included on each page, with a color swatch giving you a general idea of what colors to expect from the plant, but in the first edition the key the symbols used was buried in a very strange place. The problem is easily solved with a bookmark or post it, but finding that key in the first place (or when you lose your post it) can be quite aggravating.
You also need to read all the general instructions first! I know, I know, you want to jump right in and start working with that madder you got at Pennsic, but reading the general instructions at the start of the book will save you a huge amount of pain and suffering later on. Then you can read up on the specifics of your dye plant, and get to work. Dean does a good job of explaining the chemistry behind natural dying, and you need to have a basic understanding of this before you jump in.
For the history buffs, there is a short chapter on the history of dyeing at the start of the book that is a good starting off point for future research, but this is really a how-to book, not an academic one. There is a lot of great historical information and period dye recipes available on the web to round out your A&S bibliography.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Not quite back
My Greenland hood project and the finished lattice bag were picked up this morning and should be on their way to 30 Year where they will be included in the open A&S display on Sunday, rather than the triathlon on Saturday. It's not quite what I was hoping for, but at least people will still get to see my work, and hopefully give me some feedback, which is the whole point. And I am basically halfway there if I decide to do the pentathlon for KASF, which seems a whole lot less terrifying than it did last year at this time. My Laurel suggested that I try weaving some actual yardage, which I think would be a great project for that if I can find something within the right time period. Handweaving (at least on a 4 shaft loom) and the 15th century don't really go well together, unless I want to do more of the Greenland textiles. I'll think of something interesting to do, I just need to do it soon! With the holidays and all I want to get any big projects well in hand as soon as I can.
I'm terribly disappointed in myself for not being able to finish the documentation for the lampwork rosary I posted pictures of last week, but given how much pain I've been in since the surgery it's really not surprising. I don't know what I was thinking, expecting to write anything decent (or at all) while hopped up on percocet. Things are getting better though, so I expect the writing will start moving along soon. In the mean time, I've been doing some fairly mindless and totally modern knitting in between naps.
I'm terribly disappointed in myself for not being able to finish the documentation for the lampwork rosary I posted pictures of last week, but given how much pain I've been in since the surgery it's really not surprising. I don't know what I was thinking, expecting to write anything decent (or at all) while hopped up on percocet. Things are getting better though, so I expect the writing will start moving along soon. In the mean time, I've been doing some fairly mindless and totally modern knitting in between naps.
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