Ars Gratia Artis

The beginning of the “Bucket List:” Crafts areas under consideration for the A&S 50, about 1/2 of which I know something about:

1. Do or learn about the things listed in “A hundred points of Husbandry” as much as possible. Just getting through a year cycle might be enough to drag 50 new things into my SCA life.
2. printmaking
3. glass painting–specifically, reproduce something like the panel in the V&A, because I’ve already done fake windows and decorative painting. 
4. fishing
5. hunting
6. mining. yes, I said mining. For tin.
7. fruit tree grafting
8. architecture
9. build a camera obscura
10. Spend 50 hours in persona
11. oil painting
12. panel painting
13. bedroom into solar: see first entry here.
14. dining room into “dining hall” with consequent diners with friends who might be interested in eating period foods with me.
15. knot garden
16. period accounting
17. writing period letters, maybe even see if we can get a little period letter swap going (would be way cool for camping events)
18. be inspired by other people’s projects–50 people if possible
19. actually build that trunk I’ve been researching for a ridiculous while now
20. Actually make the standards I’ve been researching for a while now
21. make period shoes with my great grandfather’s shoe making tools
22. Read “Utopia” and “In Praise of Folly.” Too bad we don’t have a “book club” for reading period literature.
23. try sculpture. I might really suck at that.
24. Read the other book titled “Tudor Cornwall”-not the one by Rowse, the one by John Chynoweth. I’ve read Rowse
25. Actually perform something I’ve written
26. Learn more about Tudor medicine (mmmm buttered spiders!) and possibly read “The English Physician” in its entirety, although it’s post period.
27. animal husbandry–goats, chickens, et cetera–and just plain old pets.
28. Bathhouse
29. Learn more about John Cabott’s journeys.
30. go on a pilgrimage–The closest I thing I can get, I think, would be to visit the chapel at Pennsic, early one morning, before pennsic has the chance to wake up and ruin the illusion. Other option might be a memento mori walk through Forest Home cemetery. Do both, if I can.
31. Complete my period-like encampment project. This is another one that’s so big that it alone could encompass 50 things.
32. do a set of blank scrolls on a letterpress? Maybe Morgan’s mom can help with this? I’m excited to do something typeset.
33. make a period close stool to solve the 5 or more times a night issue.
34. Ride a horse in period clothing–as a lady of the day.
35. Traveling Lunch
36. The Pennsic Cupboard
37. Modelbook
38. Mosaic work
39. Enamelled jewlery ?
40. Naalbinding stockings for K ?
41. The long desired, simple bread oven?

Some things I’ve some level of skill and/or experience in, but may or may not focus on specifically for the A&S 50:

1. Research
2. Calligraphy
3. Illumination
4. Bookbinding
5. Embroidery 
6. Cooking 
7. Costuming 
8. Candlemaking 
9. Soap Making
10. Rapier
11. Archery
12. Tourney Fighting
13. Herbalism 
14. Blacksmithing
15. Acting
16. Brewing 
17. Vinting
18. Period diary 
19. Choral Music/Madrigals
20. Playing my psaltery 
21. Pottery
22. Pysanky
23. Pyrography 
24. Arrow making 
25. Bobbin Lace 
26. Late Period Poetry 
27. Papermaking 
28. Applique 
29. Knitting 
30. Chain Mail 
31. Armoring 
32. Tablet Weaving 
33. Loom weaving 
34. Leather decorating 
35. pewter casting 
36. Lucet cording and other cording skills 
37. Natural dying
38. Dance–western
39. Dance–Middle Eastern
40. Gaming
41. Heraldry, although it will show up in projects
42. Filk, even period type
43. Beadwork of all sorts
44. Persona study that can be covered by the persona lists out there.
45. Fresco painting
46. Basket making
47. Scribal Chemistry
48. Astrology
49. Quilting
50. Ceramics 

That’s enough for now, I’ll add to this side as I run across things I’m not specifically going to build on.

1. Inspired by other people:
   1. Jane Stockton
   2. Margaret Fitzwilliam
   3. Giovanna Battista da Firenze
   4. Elianora Mathewes
   5. Gwynedd merch Megan o Fon
   6. Christian de Holacombe
   7. Margherita Alessia
   8. Barbeta Kyrkeland
   9. Eliane Halevy
2. Bedroom into solar
   1. did research on curtains–so far, can’t find curtained windows
   2. did research on rugs–usually on tables, noted that white cloths laid over them when set for meals
   3. late period pictures of St Jerome and the Annunciation excellent models for learning about period interior in private rooms.
   4. Obtained gothic-inspired wire frames to decorate windows–if not workable, will work well in garden as plant support.
   5. Received a gift of a period-style bench to refurbish
   6. Obtained second-hand wallpaper that’s nice ambiance although possibly too dark to be period-like.
   7. Obtained a hanging lamp inspired by period design.
3. Writing Period Letters
   1. Gwenhwyvar Nocturnal
   2. Giovanna Battista da Firenze
   3. The Baron and Baroness of Madrone
   4. Josceline Levesque
   5. Bronwyn ferch Gwyn ap Rhys
   6. Taught a class on letters, 35th Anniversary
4. 50 hours in persona
   1. 3 Hours at Pennsic ‘07
   2. 3 more hours, Pennsic ‘08
5. Oil Painting
   1. Patch for quiver
6. Period Orchard
   1. Fruit tree grafting: See here.
   2. Elderberry bushes started
   3. Mulberry tree transplanted
   4. Raspberry bushes transplanted
   5. Research on additional types of period fruits that will be Zone 4 hardy.
   6. New Raspberries put in to replace those that died over winter.
7. Period Lent
   1. Research on rules
   2. Eat according to those rules for the duration of Lent (Yay, I did it!)
   3. Write a letter sharing what I learned with others.
8. Tusser’s 100 points of husbandry
   1. February ‘08: plant peas
   2. March: Prepare a dish of parsnips in Lent
   3. April: Make cheese
   4. May: Work with wool
   5. June: Weed
   6. July: Maintain property
   7. August: Purchase preserved fish (herring) & buy secondhand cloth
   8. September: Dig water furrows into the garden
   9. October: Gather and stack fire wood
   10. November: Plant Beans
   11. December: Feast Thy Neighbors
   12. January: ’sow’ oats
9. Period Hunting
   1. Read Thomas Cockaine’s A Short Treatise of Hunting
10. Period Fishing
    1. Read Treatyse of Fishing with an Angle, printed 1496.
11. Work towards a more period encampment and kit
    1. Completed a small knit bag for feast gear protection
    2. Replaced sauce jars with lidded crocks*
    3. Completed another knit bag for feast gear
    4. Stove: designed a periodish hobo stove
    5. Brazier: assembled a workable verision
    6. Completed another kit knit bag.
    7. Made 2 4 sets of wooden knitting needles to replace plastic needles.
    8. And another knit kit bag, for the pitcher.
    9. Made a knit cap for sleeping
    10. Obtained FAAAARR better knife, fork, spoon for feast gear
    11. And won another very good knife for feast and cooking gear.
    12. Refashionista cotton/linen dress replaces 1 piece of crap camp garb
    13. The Cheap and reasonable Scribal desk is is unsable condition
    14. Knit kit bags #5 and #6 & #7
    15. The Carmine Refashionita Dress is done
12. The Pennsic Cupboard**
    1. Canned 2 portions of Lenten Gourds in Pottage
    2. Canned 2 1-cup containers of elderberries
    3. Canned a 2-cup container of Apples Royal
13. Period Accounting
    1. Read Luca Pacioli’s PARTICULARIS DE COMPUTIS ET SCRIPTURIS
14. Traveling Lunch has been started
    1. Notes begun
    2. 1.2 written
    3. Another 5 pages written
    4. And another 8 pages written
    5. Endure Tragedy: a power outage destroys 90% of the work done on this project.
    6. Resumed work and added 2 more pages
15. Service projects as A&S
    1. Heraldry designs for the Princess
    2. Made 12 book covers for CAM
    3. Agreed to serve in Baronial Showcase Withdrew as a result of mundane commitment
    4. Calligrapy group formed, and committed to making some blanks for kingdom. In progress.
16. A Close Stool
    1. Research on Tudor Era Close Stools
    2. Found a site with instructions for building a modern version
17. The Requiems And Sorrows
    1. A Sonnet for Price
18. Clay Oven of the simple sort
    1. Pot=obtained
       
    2. Oven opening cut into pot oven was destroyed in tragic table collapse.
19. Letterpress Printing
    1. Contacted Morgan’s Mom for assistance
    2. Took a class on period printing, Pennsic *xxxvij*, and printed a broadsheet
20. Period Shoes
    1. Informal class on shoe making, Pennsic *xxxvij*
21. Standard & Banners
    1. Designed first standard. At Last.
22. Tudor medicine
    1. Read parts of the English Physician
    2. Read a very nice article on the contents and recreation of the medical kit on the Mary Rose

1. Made a quiver
2. Wrote web article about making quiver
3. Costuming
   1. black linen choli
   2. black linen coif
   3. natural linen coif
   4. 1 pair refashioned knit stockings
   5. Black and yellow cord for going-kingdom dress
   6. white linen choli
   7. Article on period-looking modern shoes
   8. Made a tunic for K
   9. A new veil, large
   10. A small linen veil
   11. a yellow silk partlet w/ handmade cords
   12. Another tunic for K
   13. A tunic for Ry
   14. A knit shoulder cape (compatible rather than period)
   15. Another coif, linen with some blackwork
   16. 2 bag caps, and learned the fabulous Magic Veil Stitch
       
   17. Refashioned brown linen partlet with handmade cords
   18. Completed a simple bodice
4. Cookery***
   1. Researched period baking
   2. “Gelly of Pork” recipe.
   3. Tarte of Plums.
   4. Armored Turnips.
   5. Gourdes in Pottage.
   6. Tart of Prunes.
   7. Created achicken based on Platina.
   8. An SCA-compatible quiche
   9. Chicken a la Nola.
   10. Salmon dish
   11. Potherb receipt from Platina.
   12. Redacted “apples Royle”
   13. redacted Rice, another way
   14. Carrots and cumin from Apicus
   15. Meatball dish cited in To The Queen’s Taste
       • all above cited in this entry
   16. Redacted Sarcean meat.
   17. redacted a “fish pie”
   18. created a workable oil crust
   19. redacted a Lenten Flan
   20. redacted an Arabic recipe for eggplant with fish. Yuck.
   21. Salted lemons
   22. A Pottage of Rapes and Oysters
   23. Elderflower Cheesecake
   24. 4 different redactions of period “pancakes”
   25. And, at last, a crepe that’s edible
   26. A Pottage of cauliflower and dumplings
   27. A vegan version of a tarte of mushrooms
   28. Lenten Cretonee of Newe Benes
   29. A sourdough bread
   30. Another sourdough bread
   31. A Compote of Strawberry
   32. Scallops based on Le Menagier
   33. Turnips based on Le Menagier>*
       
   34. Shrimps based on a recipe in Two 15th Century Cookery Books*
   35. Research on balsamic vinegar
   36. Macrows, adjusted for vegans * **
   37. a version of Fish Pies out of Lent *
   38. Mushroom pie, another way
   39. Almond Cheese I
   40. A Blancmange, adjusted for vegans
   41. Sole in Civee
   42. Spinich Yfryed
   43. Research on period cheese & meat substitutes
   44. Benes Yfried & 2 other fava bean variants
5. Embroidered patch
6. Taught a class on Table Books
7. completed a small Turdor Rose embroidery