Craft Fair
Craft Fair: Metalworking
Metalwork during the European medieval times was generally considered to be crude and warlike. Much of media portrays medieval times as violent and barbaric by […]
Craft Fair: 3D Printing
The 3D printing table was a little different than other tables. Our recreations could be moved, touched, etc. but we did not have hands-on activities […]
Craft Fair: Riddles
In class, many of us were struck by the surprising amount of phallic jokes penned by monks. Of course, we were also struck by the […]
Craft Fair: Boneworking
Bones were for the Anglo-Saxons what plastic is for us today. A workable substance able to be molded into a variety of shapes and […]
Craft Fair: Funeral & Burial Practices
One of the areas our class spent time considering and researching was Anglo-Saxon burial practices. Due to the prevalence of cemeteries in the archaeological […]
Craft Fair: Ceramics
The table that I sat at during the portion of the Craft Fair when it was not raining cats and dogs was the ceramics table. […]
Craft Fair: Early Medieval Textiles
“Of all the proceeds of human artifice, string is perhaps the most widespread and least appreciated.” -Tim Ingold Basic Textile History Textiles were certainly […]
Craft Fair: Early Medieval Anglo-Saxon Cooking
Culture is a multifaceted thing that expresses itself in hundreds of ways, from the manner in which people of a certain culture dress to the […]
Craft Fair: Early Medieval Calligraphy in the British Isles
While the book can be traced back to the second century AD, calligraphy did not come to the Anglo-Saxons until their conversion in the late […]
