Sydney Re-Enactor Skills Day
| When |
Dec 10, 2011
from 10:00 AM to 05:00 PM |
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| Where | 2nd/3rd Lindfield Scout hall, Cnr Beaconsfield Parade and Drover's Way, Lindfield. The hall is 100m from Lindfield station, with easy parking available too. |
| Contact Name | Elden |
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We're trialing a new event for all historical re-enactors and enthusiasts in the Sydney area. The concept is for a semi-regular meeting to work on re-enactment projects, share research and run workshops. We're inviting people to bring their latest projects, and/or join in a workshop session.
When: 10am till 5pm, Dec 10th, 2011.
Where: 2nd/3rd Lindfield Scout hall, Cnr Beaconsfield Parade and Drover's Way, Lindfield. The hall is 100m from Lindfield station, with easy parking available too.
How much: $5 per person for hall hire, plus materials/consumables cost of nominated workshops, as below.
What's on:
= Leather Pouches (10:00-13:00) =
Sew a C14th men's leather belt purse.n
$10, or $2 BYO 1.5mm flexible leather
(Hugh McDonald)
= Beginner's Embroidery (10:00-13:00) =
Learn basic medieval embroidery stitches like brick, stem and chain stitch to decorate clothing, accessories and linens
$2
(Louise Beange)
= Show and tell forum (12:30) =
Bring your recent projects for people to admire.
= Lunch break (13:00-14:00) =
BYO lunch or head to nearby take-aways and supermarket.
= Cloth Purses (14:00-17:00) =
Hand sew a small medieval purse, suitable for money, relics, jewellery etc.
Covers beginner's linen hand sewing and eyeleting. If time allows and people are willing, we will fingerloop braid drawstrings for your purse.
$2
(Roxanne McMurray)
= Wool Hoods (14:00-17:00) =
Hand sew a woollen hood to keep out the sun and rain. Warm in winter, cool in summer.
$10, or $2 BYO fabric. A soft wool fabric is strongly recommended. If you don't enjoy rubbing the fabric on your throat, you won't like it as a hood.
(Elden McDonald)
If you would like to join a workshop, please email workshops@companyofthestaple.org.au and let us know who you are and which workshops you're interested in. We will do our best to accommodate everyone, but we will have to draw the line, first-in best-dressed, if we get an overwhelming response. If you have suitable tools for your workshop, please bring them along and that will be one more person we can take.
Our first round of workshops has a strong fourteenth century / high-medieval bias. That's not because of our secret global HYW homogeneity conspiracy, it's just what we know best, and we're drawing volunteers from our own ranks for round one.
If you would like to teach a workshop at our skills day, please get in touch! There are lots of very clever people in Sydney doing some amazing stuff, but it too often gets confined to their local club.
If there's a skill you'd like to learn or a workshop you've been dreaming of, we'd also like to hear from you. This is a first pass at an evolving concept for us, so if people would prefer to add markets, swap meets, lectures or some other feature, we're looking for feedback.
RSVP, workshop reservations and feedback - please email workshops@companyofthestaple.org.au.
Regards,
Elden, for Company of the Staple
