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since the yearly "certain medications can cause heat intolerance" PSAs are out in full force, let us fondly remember last year when I was at Pennsic (big ass medieval recreation event) and our group was tearing down our giant tent lodge we use for our kitchen and dining hall. and there's a part at the very end where the roof is sort of on the ground, but still tented on a pole in the middle. and someone has to go under there to unhook the roof from the pole. but it's hot as fuck in that part since it's been baking in the sun for two weeks, so it's called "Satan's asshole". which resulted in somebody VERY solemnly telling me, "going into Satan's asshole is NOT a job for somebody on SSRIs"

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16th century flower illustration PNGs.

(source: Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515)

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☀ cross stitch of a cat , which is about 1000 years old !

A textile fragment was found in Peru. It belongs to the Chimu or Chancay culture (pre-Columbian era X - XV centuries)

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Reenactor throws a spear at a drone

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it's me and my two sources on medieval strap-ons against the world

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A peacock

Breviary; Northern Germany, 2nd half of the 15th century: Harley MS 2975, f. 73v

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Oh hey, do you know what time it is? It is highly specific resource time!

Today we have the Royal School of Needlework Stitch Bank! There are HUNDREDS of stitch types in the RSN Stitch Bank.

And more added regularly, let’s look at a recent addition

I picked the first one in the 25 recently added Elizabethan stitches, the Elizabethan French Stitch

The stitch bank provides written and photo tutorials as well as a video option to learn to do it yourself. There are examples of the stitch in use, resources, references, everything but a needle and thread!

rsnstitchbank.org

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For the SCA-curious anon: If you'd rather not presume someone's gender with a title, it's hard to go wrong with 'Good Gentle.' The SCA-wide 'household' for LGBTQIA+ folks is Clan Blue Feather; they may have a presence in your area! (One can wear a dark blue feather if one is a member of the community, or a light blue feather for an ally, but not everyone follows this custom.) Otherwise, if you or your partner do experience anything untoward, let the Seneschal know as soon as you can. It is their job to deal with harassment and other legal matters.

All excellent things to share, thank you!

This is why I love scadian Tumblr.

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Twin and I finally made it to an event (its been a hot minute). Bacon Bash was a lot of fun - twin watched the fighting and I helped out in the kitchen.

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available, you say... 🤔

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outta my way i'm about to become a ye olde furrie

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For my hot and humid weather Scadians.

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i think every medieval timesey ren fair type attraction should have a booth of pedantry where if you wanna know if something happening is Authentic or you wanna ask questions about real medieval times or whatever you can stop by and there's just a historian sitting on a throne of books eager to show you all their research

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Happy Black History Month. Add this book to your pile.

BLACK TUDORS tells the stories of ten Africans. Miranda Kaufmann traces their tumultuous paths in the Tudor and Stuart eras, uncovering a rich array of detail about their daily lives and how they were treated. She reveals how John Blanke came to be the royal trumpeter to Henry VII and Henry VIII: the trouble Jacques Francis got himself into while working as a salvage diver on the wreck of the Mary Rose; what prompted Diego to sail the world with Drake, and she pieces together the stories of a porter, a prince, a sailor, a prostitute and a silk weaver. 

They came to England from Africa, from Europe and from the Spanish Caribbean. They came with privateers, pirates, merchants, aristocrats, even kings and queens, and were accepted into Tudor society. They were baptised, married and buried by the Church of England and paid wages like other Tudors. 

Yet their experience was extraordinary because, unlike the majority of Africans across the rest of the Atlantic world, in England they were free. They lived in a world where skin colour was less important than religion, class or talent: before the English became heavily involved in the slave trade, and before they founded their first surviving colony in the Americas. Their stories challenge the traditional narrative that racial slavery was inevitable and that it was imported to colonial Virginia from Tudor England. They force us to re-examine the 17th century to find out what had caused perceptions to change so radically. 

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Remarkable, extant 16th century male attires 

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