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Lady Regan Caimbeul is our Central Regional Hospitaler.
Joining the SCA is a great experience for all. The Kingdom
Hospitaler's webpage offers up a great amount of detail about how
to join, the rules of the game, and where to find your local Hospitaler.
What this page offers a newcomer is advice on what to do at your first
event and an array of links that will help you now and later.
First the first event advice. Then the
links and some commentary about each.
Your first event! WOW! Your excited and have a million questions racing
around your head. We will try to answer a few of your questions and add
more as you send me more questions! |
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Where is my group located? |
A. There are maps online that show you where you are in the known world here and here and here by zipcode. But our map can be found here.. |
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I have a question about A&S in the central region, where do I go to find out more about events and stuff? |
A: The Central Regional MOAS website has
a calendar of A&S events in our area as well as lots of other really
cool things. Check it out and make sure you email the person in your
area (linked on the page) for more information. |
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How can We participate in the SCA on a Budget?
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A: Well, there is website that is all about that, check it out. The SCA Without Breaking the Bank
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How do We get there? |
A: Mapsco is your best friend. Failing that calling the person in your area who is listed as the hospitaler or the person listed as the Autocrat or Steward of the event will get you results. A hospitaler is the person that is in charge of welcoming newcomers. An Autocrat and a Steward are the same thing, it is a job description for what they do. These folks are the ones in charge of the event you want to go to. |
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Where can We find information about a persona that We want to play? |
A: Here are few links to mailing lists that discuss the many interesting things about different types of personas you will find in the SCA.
Norse
Indian
Clerical Persona or Christian persona or Other Christians
Roman
Jewish Persona
French Persona
Welsh Persona
Persian Persona
Central Asian or Middle Eastern Persona
Gypsy Persona
Norman Persona
Courtesan Persona
Moorish (Spain) Persona
Italian Persona
Medieval Naming Guides
Stephan's Florilegium Archive
Check these files:
- Easy-Persona-art (12K) 12/26/00 "An Easy Way to Create a Persona in the SCA" by Lady Meliora Leuedai de Ardescote.
- Inquisitn-Gme-art (17K) 5/24/99 "The Inquisition Game" by Daniel of Raven's Nest.
- persona-art (14K) 11/12/96 An article on persona by Duke Cariadoc.
- Persona-Build-art (14K) 2/24/99 "Building A Persona" by Pamela Hewitt, the Harper.
- Persona-f-Beg-art (12K) 1/13/02 "Creating Your SCA Persona for Beginners" by Lady Lucia Borromeo.
- persona-msg (77K) 12/ 8/00 Persona development. Ideas of Persona.
- Vikng-Persona-wsh (8K) 12/21/01 A Viking Persona worksheet by Gunnora Hallakarva.
- per-insanity-msg (36K) 9/13/96 Insane personas, insanity in period.
- per-lepers-msg (9K) 2/23/01 Stories of using leper personas
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What do We wear? |
A: Your local SCA'ers are your best source. The hospitaler's office is in charge of keeping loaner garb on hand for those that need it. Contact them first.
Or if you are really ambitions and want to get started sewing have the Hospitaler give you the phone number of the local Clothier's guild head. This person is in charge of holding sewing circles in their area and are usually very friendly.
Another avenue are mailing lists for a specific type of costume:
How to make a cotehardie
SCA Garb list By far the number one stop on your journey to recreating clothing for the SCA. There is also a mailing list that inspired this webpage. To subscribe to it send e-mail with a blank subject and in the to: type in listserv@list.uvm.edu. In the body of the message put the subscribe SCA-garb along with your first and last name.
Historic Costuming (all periods not just SCA period, oldest known mailing list for costuming, started as a news group internal to a university)
Rialto Clothing Archives A mecca of information on what others have made with detail on how.
Textiles Through Time Lots of text, not much visual representation but if you stick with it you will learn a lot about that piece of tapestry you have always admired.
Textile Resources for the Re-enactor The author calls this repository of information her filing cabinet. Research mecca.
The History of Costume This is a complete collection of the costuming book by Braun & Schneider. The drawings are in full color. These representation are the victorian artists' interpretation from paintings they were allowed to sit in front of and sketch. It can be fun to try to identify what paintings the individual people are from. Not to be taken literally as the Victorians embellished a great deal. Use the paintings if you can find them instead as your guide.
Milieux: The Costume Site (Historical and Fantasy Resources) This place is a repository of links to everything costuming on the web. The most complete collection so far. She has links to pages that search engines do not have indexed. Use the historical ones for out purposes.
Viking Tunic Construction This is probably the very best instruction step by step method of making a T-tunic.
Another avenue are mailing lists for a specific type of costume:
SCA Garb list
ageofthecotehardie This list is for people who enjoy studying, discussing, or recreating history...Mainly 14th century life, dress, politics, etc. There is another list with extensive archives that this list will tell you how to get to.
Italian Costuming
Roman
Elizabethan Garb
General Costuming
All Yahoo! Costume groups
SCA Garbing at Yahoo
German Renaissance Costuming |
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We see crowns being worn and would like to wear something pretty on our heads too. What is allowed? |
A: You have earn the rank to wear a coronet or crown. That being said you can wear a metal circlet, which is not the same thing by name, that is under 1/2 inches total in width. If you want pearls you cannot place them on top of the circlet, pearls on the top are reserved. There is an entire section in our heraldry area that covers this in more deep detail. But the basics are, nothing over 1/2 inch in total. |
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We would like to make at least 2-3 outfits, how much material do We get? |
A: The best rule of is to get a minimum of 5 yards of fabric per outfit and two spools of thread that match the fabric. |
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Where do We get the fabric? |
A: In the Dallas area there are many good places to shop at. Here is a website with descriptions for most of them:
Dallas, Fort Worth and DFW surrounding area
Online Fabric Shopping:
http://www.reddawn.net/quilt/online.htm |
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Would We be able to use a sewing room (with help) to try to put the garb together? |
A: Almost every group has a Clothiers Guild. This is a group of costumers and general sewing people that get together at least once a month. They are always open to newcomers and have sewing machines for you to make your outfits on. They are the costuming mentors of our groups. |
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Do you have a list of gear that would be prudent to bring to events? |
A: A tent, a sleeping roll, pillows, one of those plastic containers with a lid to keep all your clothes in incase it rains or floods, one nice outfit, 2 tunics, 2 pairs of shoes, 2 pants, feast gear that consists of something to hold a mug, a plate, fork and knife, and a napkin, food stuffs for the weekend, lots of water, sun screen, insect repellent, and a chair. |
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We would like to help volunteer for an event and hope to learn how to run one someday. How do We do this? |
A: Well, your in luck. We have a list of people that are always willing to foster anyone that wants to know how to run an event. In fact, for your first event you will have a mentor who will be with you every step of the way. Here is a link that talks about what all goes into the planning of an event. It is the best out there! As for the list of folks, ask any one listed on this website for them and we will provide them for you. |
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What do I say to someone if they tell me I am not period in one form or another? |
What to
say ...
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Where can We get more newcomer information like from a book or something? |
SCA Inc. actually publishes a new members guide booklet that you can purchase off their website.
https://secure.sca.org/cgi-bin/stockclerk/other.html, we highly recommend it! |
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Here are a few links to help you out beyond your first event.
Fabric Heaven (listing of 73 online fabric stores)
Shoes
Medieval source book A repository of links for everything European Medieval.
The Arador Armor Library-Many ideas for armor making. Very professional site, beautiful to look at.
Medieval Naming Guides
Cariadoc's
Miscellany
Medieval/Renaissance
Food Homepage
SCA
Music and Dance Home page
SCA Historic Calligraphy
Stephan's Florilegium
Archive
Historic
Calligraphy: Fonts and stuff
Medieval Pavilion Resource Page
The Society for
Creative Anachronism
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