A&S Links
Below are links to sites on the Internet related to Arts and Sciences in the SCA. If you have links to add or find broken links, please e-mail the Minister of Arts and Sciences.
SCA Kingdom A&S Pages,
General A&S,
Costuming,
Fiber Arts and Embroidery ,
Period Food and Brewing,
Scribal Arts ,
Bardic,
Lampworking
Bookbinding
- The Costume Page
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- They have links to almost everything that you could ever want to know about costuming!
- The Costumer's Manifesto
- This site is maintained by a professor of theatrical costuming in Alaska. She has all kinds of links to other places and will cheerfully answer any questions you might have concerning costuming.
- Elizabethan Costuming Home Page
- They have some wonderful information on Elizabethan costuming. For those of you that are interested in late period costuming, this page starts from the skin out!
- The Houpelande Homepage,
The Real Landsknecht Homepage,
The Cotehardie Homepage
- These three pages are maintained by Tempus Peregrinator, in the Middle Kingdom. They are excellent treatise on the garment style and give pictures of the finished garments.
- Clothing and Appearance of the Early Christian Anglo-Saxons
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- This site is maintained by Angelcynn - Anglo-Saxon Living History 400 - 900 A.D. They have great research and bibliography for early period costuming. They also have links to other sites that they maintain on other aspects of Anglo-Saxon life.
- The History of Costume - Index By Braun & Schneider
- This is an online version of the book by Braun & Schneider, Historic Costume in Pictures. It has pictures from the book in thumbnails and you can enlarge them for a better view.
- La Couturière Parisienne Costume and Fashion Site: Miscellany
- This costuming website (based in Germany) includes periods from Medieval to Edwardian. The useful and impressive thing about it is the number of period paintings it has collected together to use for reference. Also has links. And a section on period music.
- Medieval Clothing Pages
- Articles and Essays of interest to costumers.
- Modern Patterns for Recreation
- Opinions about modern "costume" patterns published by the big companies, for use in the SCA or similar organizations.
- Dharma Trading Co.
- A great source for fabric purchases on-line, especially silks.
- The Costume Gallery's research library: Medieval Costume 100-1499 AD
- This area lists resources that will assist you in your search for costumes representing 100-1499 AD. This includes the historic periods known as Medieval, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, Gothic, and High Gothic.
- The Medieval Times Arts and Sciences
- A&S articles and links from the Medieval Times, an unofficial on-line SCA newsletter.
- Woman's Léine
- Information on this medieval Irish under garment.
- Class Act Fabrics: corset Stays or Boning
- The owner is a SCAdian in Pennsylvania. I can not personally say anything about her fabric, but she's been a great source for steel boning! She general has a booth at Pennsic and also teaches classes there.
- Mamluk Textiles
- A history of the Mamluk Empire (1250 - 1517) and samplings of Mamluk textiles.
- Phiala's String Page
- Information on: Tablet Weaving, Sprang, Naalbinding, Ply-split Braiding, Dying, and Felt Balls.
- Embroidery and Needlework Links
- From the Atlantian A&S pages.
 Period Food and Brewing
- Medieval/Renaissance Brewing Homepage
- This site has a great bibliography of links to other related sites. References, Articles, Newsletters, Recipes, SCA Guilds, and other information related to period brewing.
- Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
- Just like the Brewing Homepage, this site has a bibliography of links to other related sites.
- Cariadoc's Miscellany
- Duke Cariadoc and his Lady, Mistress Elizabeth, have written these articles on subjects ranging from Period Food to Armour to various editorials, some "in persona" some not. Great site to get lost in for an afternoon!
- SCA Brew Historical Brewing Library
- A complete reference guide for the period brewer. Lots of great links! For more information, head to the main SCA Brew Historic Brewing Page.
Scribal Arts & Links
- Sinopia On-Line
- Sinopia features fine artists pigments, gold and other period art supplies. Expensive, but very high quality stuff.
- Master John the Artificer
- Master John the Artificer has a variety of hard to find items (oak galls, copperas, Cennini weight gold leaf) and quality pigments both domestic and imported. Visit his site and prepare to be amazed.
- Cyber-scriptorium
- This site (Aethelmarc's Scribal page) gives a great overview of SCA scrolls (what is a scroll, how are they made, etc) plus lots of cool links to online manuscript sources, texts, and instructions on how to get on the inter-kingdom scribe's list. Crawl around in this site for a while and you won't be sorry.
- Early manuscripts at Oxford University
- An on-going scribal project to put detailed scans of manuscripts that are in the possession of the bodelian Library in Oxford , England, online for scholarly use. The downloads take a while, but they are worth the wait.
- The Callig Website
- Modern and Medieval calligraphy sources, links and information. Check it out!
Bardic
- SCA Medieval & Renaissance Music and Medieval & Renaissance Dance Homepage
- With links to: Medieval & Renaissance Dance, Medieval & Renaissance Music, Songs / Minstrels / "Bardic Arts", SCA Minstrel Homepage
- Shire of Greywood's collection of bardic songs
- A list of common bardic songs and their lyrics.
Lampworking
- La Compagnia dei Maestri del Vetro
- Inter-Kingdom Glassworker's Guild
- Mistress Caitlin Cheannlaidir's Glass Links
- Links and resources for lampworking
- Heritage Glass - Beadmaking Supplies and Classes
- Great source for glass and other lampworking supplies. They have a wonderful starter set.
- Class Crafters
- Stained glass supplier that also carries lampworking equipment and glass. Note that their glass rods are Bullseye Hot Rodz, not the Moretti glass rods that are sold by other suppliers. The two types of glass are not compatible.
- Arrow Springs
- Glass supplier. Also includes some hints and tips as well as a list of instructors, including some in the Denver area.
- Glass Line Newsletter
- Newsletter for all types of hot glass artists
Bookbinding
- Oxford University
- The homepage of the Oxford University Libraries online manuscript project
- Dscriptorium
- A collection of links to images of medieval manuscripts
- Brera Bookbindings
- a survey of 15th and 16th century binding decorations
- de Nevell Book Arts
- A Midrealm household dedicated to book arts
- Fifteenth-Century Bookbinding Structure
- an academic article on a survey done of 15th century books
- 1911 Encyclopedia
- a survey of bookbinding, describing examples of many variations of decoration
- "Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books"
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