Suggested Topics
Hands on Sessions
- Embroidery
- Chainmail
- Calligraphy
- Illumination
- Dance
- Lucette
- Spinning
- Cooking?
- Armour?
- Carving (stone, wood, bone)
- Basket Weaving
- Beer making
- Wine Making
- Tablet Weaving
- Games
- Dyes
- Medieval languages
- Pewter Casting
- Naalbinding
- Wire Knitting
- Kumihimo
- building construction - description of techniques and materials
Other ideas
- Have a session for introducing the groups involved
- Intro to experimental archaeology
- Anatomy of an excavation
- class streams
- A sequence of classes that begins with the raw fleece and ends with a tunic. Sure it could use the standard TV Cooking show "time lapse" techniques, but you know what I mean. Go through (hands on) all of the steps involved including historical background (why those colours/cuts/fleece types, etc etc)
- Similar class runs could be done with Food (types of food, growing /farming styles, preparation techniques [perhaps a class on cooking implements as well], cultural issues (# meals in a day, types of meals) and then menus.
- Ore to broach and Ore to sword covering the bronze and iron path from rock to end product.
- Astronomy
- Basketweaving
- Battle techniques
- Beading
- Beginning Romanian or Latin
- Bookbinding
- Bow making
- Castle Sapping
- Celtic history
- Commedia
- Conversation
- Cut Lace embroidery
- Differences in culture during Medieval times
- Drumming
- Early Icelandic costume & accessories
- Early period embellishment
- Egyptian
- Elizabethan embrodiery
- Elizabethian Costume
- English History
- Falconry
- Famous women
- Fletching
- Folklore resources or period music styles
- Followups to previous years classes, to advance or learn more then just the basics of things
- Geneology
- Gold leafing
- Hats, headwear, many ways to wear a veil, etc
- History of Constantinople
- History of postmedieval/medieval battles in Europe and Asia
- History on the time periods like the "fall of Constantinople"
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Italian City States
- Jewellery Making
- Jewellry designs
- Joan of Arc
- Knives
- Lapidary
- leather armour
- Leather masks
- Leather painting
- Leather tooling
- Leather working
- Making a drinking horn
- Making armour
- Medicine
- Mosaic
- Music
- Myths, faery tales, cultures
- Naval War
- Needlework, textiles, etc
- Non European civilizations info
- Norse cooking
- Ottoman Empire
- Piping
- Quarterstaff
- Raiding Villages / sacking towns
- Renaissance Women/ women writers
- Scientific Instruments
- Scottish / Celtic music as part of the culture
- Sewing for beginners
- Sewing of a garment start to finish
- Silversmithing
- Social Change
- Strange laws or laws surrounding a specific topic
- Superstitions
- Sweeps of history: church, countries (2hr)
- Torture
- Toys, Children in the Middle Ages
- Traditions & Festivals
- Tudor Customing
- Vellum
- War of the Roses
- Warfare for beginners (tactics, etc.)
- Weapon Smithing
- Who's who in History: Church, Mongols, Vikings, Romans When & where
- Wine
Contact us if you have any questions or suggestions
