University of Atlantia

Ever wonder the difference between a twill, even weave, linen, wool or an acrylic. Get confused in the fabric store? This class will help with those problems and provide care instructions for your new garb. Please bring a stapler or about 1 dozen straight pins for a swatch card.

A Pennsic veteran gives tips and tricks for enjoying Pennsic, and getting home intact, afterwards. Discussion of gear, food, garb, weather, possible ouchies and ailments, shelter, and the vagaries of life at Pennsic.

This is a slide show depicting late Elizabethan / early Stuart embroidered jackets. In 2010, Amie went to Great Britain with an embroidery study group, which was allowed access to 12 extant jackets from museums including the Museum of London, Victoria & Albert Museum, the Costume Museum of Bath, the Maidstone Museum, the Museum of Nottingham, and the Gallery of Costume at Platt Hall. Photos of the jackets will highlight details of construction and embroidery. Photos will be shown for the lecture, but cannot be posted electronically or distributed. Handouts with information will be provided but no photos.

A class addressing the development of a story from a theme, motif, or handful of story elements, as well as developing documentation for stories. We will also address how to pare down/build up a story, and where to break large stories for episodic telling. Activities will include: · Introduction to theme/motif indexes · Redaction of a large/epic story to its minimum structure · Building a story out of a handful of story elements · Finding the natural breaks in long stories · Tips on finding/developing documentation for stories The first hour will be introduction to general principles/questions, the second hour will be practical demonstrations of the process where we will take an epic tale and reduce it to its skeleton, and take a story fragment and build it out.

Enameling is a magical process… and it will not cost both arms and a leg to get started. We’ll look at examples from period, and discuss the techniques that were used. Equipment will be on hand for display purposes only due to issues with trying to transport a hot kiln in a full car.

Your child has expressed an interest in becoming a youth armored fighter. Great! You've attended the required class, and gotten a run down on what equipment your child needs. Great! But what does it mean? And how can you find/make what is needed? Come listen to what I have learned as a mother to youth fighters.

Free up your hands by wearing a Pilgrims Bag instead of carrying a bulky basket. It is a great way to keep your modern items out of sight. Learn how to make one out of cloth or leather. If you have have made one, bring it to class to share.

We've all looked at the cards on the wall, and looked through the exhibit catalogs but do you know where else to find information? This class will tell you! There are a wealth of sources of information inside a museum, from curators to the front desk and everything in between.

T-Tunics are a basic SCA garment, however they are not all alike. Explore the differences of Women's Clothing from the Migration Ear through the Viking onslaught to the later Anglo-Saxon styles.

This class is particularly suited to rank beginners and/or children. Silk threads and even weave linen fabric will be used to stitch a simple 16th century design. Students will learn how to properly begin, execute, and end their stitching while gaining experience with historically accurate materials.

I will be sharing some of the ways we can play with metal without the need of a forge. A brief overview that may include but is not limited to cutting metal with a jeweler’s saw, decorating metal with punches, and wire weaving.

Have you puzzled over books that talked about extant garments that were made of 3/1 twill or tabby, and wondered what that looked like? Or wondered how yarn becomes cloth? This class will give an overview of looms, weaving terms, and how they are set up (Although warping will not be covered). There will be a loom in class to look at and to try weaving on. If there is time, drafts and drawdowns will also be covered.

To the Elizabethans it was not a question of 'Did magic exist?', because everyone knew it did. The question was rather 'What type of magic was one dealing with?'. This class will examine witchcraft, cunning folks' magic and the high magic of Dr. John Dee and alchemists as practiced during the Elizabethan period.

An introduction to the style of performing plays known as Commedia dell'Arte, an improvised style of comedy using stock characters and no written script. We will focusing on the later 16th Century. Commedia will be experience through theater games and short scenes.

This class will deeply investigate what bread was like, and how it changed, throughout history. It will cover what grains were used to make bread and what methods were practiced in preparation in baking. Learn what sort of bread your persona or household would have been eating in period and how to make it yourself! The class will be a presentation with handouts, demonstration props and many examples of extent art. There may even be samples for tasting!

Building the Scottish targe, or small shield. Some history, mostly suggestions on how to construct a common soldier's targe, with the instructor's examples.

Class will go over the common equestrian games used, how to correctly perform them, and the scores given to each piece of equipment/obstacles used. Bring Digital storing devices (thumb drives).

A survey of the history of the western conquest and loss of the Holy Land in two parts: the calling of the first Crusade to the battle of the Horns of Hattin and from the third Crusade to the fall of Acre.

The ancestor of today's needlepoint, counted thread work is an easy to master, period embroidery technique popular in Germany between 1200-1400. In period, it was used to embellish pouches, hangings, cushions and other objects. This class includes a survey of counted thread techniques and the tools and materials to get you started stitching. Come prepared to stitch.

A survey of roses that were available and/or cultivated during our period and how they compare to roses commonly grown today.

Class will cover the positions needed for the joust, the points earned per passes (3) and the scoring of Atlanita's newest and fast pace Equestrian event.

This class will provide an in-depth overview of wool hatmaking in post-Reconquista Spain, as well as an introduction to creating knitted and fulled headwear for men or women. Class includes handout with patterns. Skill level and equipment: Students should be able to knit, purl, increase and decrease stitches, and work with double-pointed needles in the round. Students should bring 5 US size-10 double-pointed needles and a skein of 100% worsted weight wool in any color.

Construct a Viking backstitched working knife sheath based on finds from the York viking finds. The simple technique can easily be completed in a couple of hours by even a novice leatherworker. Fee covers leather. Should bring a knife with small or no guard and 5" or less blade.

(Same class as 409, just another section.) This class will deeply investigate what bread was like, and how it changed, throughout history. It will cover what grains were used to make bread and what methods were practiced in preparation in baking. Learn what sort of bread your persona or household would have been eating in period and how to make it yourself! The class will be a presentation with handouts, demonstration props and many examples of extent art. There may even be samples for tasting!

Explore the usage of Islamic Prayer Beads, what they are made of, what prayers are said with them and why they have three names. We will have a handout with period portraits and a kit will be available for a small fee for making your own tesbih.

A class addressing basic class preparation and presentation, specifically for gentles that do not come from a professional education background. Specifically, this class will address (in no particular order): · Lesson planning · Handout development · Class structure · Learning styles