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Category:Embroidery

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This [[Special:categeories|category]] lists articles about [[embroidery]], its styles and terms.

Russia

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'''Russia''' is a region occupying the East of [[Europe]] and extending into the North West of [[Asia]]. It did not however exist as a single political unit until the establishment of [[Kievan Rus']] in the [[9th century]]. Russia became nominally [[Christian]] in 988 when St.Vladimir baptised the inhabitants of Kiev. Kievan Rus' eventually disintegrated in the middle of the [[12th century]].

The next rise of Russia as a politically unified body occured under the rule of [[Moscow]]. [[Muscovite Russia]] as it was known, became a political force from the [[14th century]] on, in the wake of the [[Mongol]] invasions.

* [[Ivan the Terrible|Ivan IV]], the "Terrible" or "Awesome"
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Embroidery

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'''Embroidery''' is the use of needles and threads of varing thickness, with or without beads or other baubles, to lay down a logo or pattern onto [[fabric]] using various sewing stitches.

Embroidery is a great way to show off your [[device]]. It can also be used to decorate [[girdle]]s, [[sleeves]], [[bodice]]s, [[neckline]]s or [[pouch]]es. It is promoted in Lochac by the [[Worshipful Company of Broiderers]].

=== Techniques / Styles ===
* [[Couching]]
* [[Opus Anglicanum]]
* [[Or Nue]]
* [[Blackwork]]
* [[Goldwork]]
* [[Whitework]]
* [[Stumpwork]]
* [[Heraldic Embroidery]]
* [[Applique]] and [[Quilting]]
* [[Voided Work]] (Assisi and Reversa)

=== Cultures / Regions ===
* [[Anglo-Saxon embroidery]]
* Scandinavian
** [[Icelandic embroidery]]
** [[Swedish embroidery]]
** [[Norweigian embroidery]]
** [[Danish embroidery]]
* [[Elizabethan embroidery]]
* [[Coptic embroidery]]
* [[Middle Eastern embroidery]]
* [[Viking embroidery]]
* [[Russian embroidery]]
* [[Frankish embroidery]]
* [[Germanic embroidery]]

=== Stitches ===

* [[tent stitch]]
* [[back stitch]]
* [[cross stitch]]
* [[stem stitch]]
* [[split stitch]]
* [[detatched buttonhole]]
* [[chain stitch]]
* [[kloster stitch]]
* [[brick stitch]]
* [[satin stitch]]
* [[double-running stitch]]
* [[pattern darning]]
* [[couching]]

=== Extant Pieces ===

* [[St Cuthbert Maniple and Stole]]
* [[Maaseik Embroidery]]
* [[Bayeux Tapestry]]
* [[Syon Cope]]
* [[Malterer Hanging]] - 14th C

=== Misc ===

* [[Modelbuchs]] - printed pattern books

=== Links ===

* Atlantian A&S Links: Embroidery & Needlework - http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=56

* Historical Needlework Resources - http://medieval.webcon.net.au/index.html

* Victoria and Albert Museum Image Archive - http://images.vam.ac.uk/

* Machine Embroidery Designs - http://www.ahey-embroidery.com/
* Embroidery Designs Shop- http://www.embroidery-designs-shop.com/

[[category:embroidery]]

Europe

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'''Europe''' is the area in which most [[SCA]] activities are set. Part of the minimum standard of [[authenticity]] is that people try to adopt a personality and [[clothing]] of a person that '''could''' have visited Europe during [[period]].

Notable lands in Europe are:
* [[England]]
* [[Germany]]
* [[France]]
* [[Spain]]
* [[Italy]]
* [[The Netherlands]]
* [[Poland]]

In the [[SCA]], European branches are in the [[Kingdom of Drachenwald]].

== References ==

* [http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Wikipedia:Europe]
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Greek

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During [[period]] '''Greek''' was spoken throughout [[Greece]] and [[Byzantium]]. A lot of the early [[science|scientific]] and [[medicine|medical]] [[research]] was written in [[ancient]] Greek. We can thank the [[Arab]]s for translating the [[manuscript|document]]s into [[Arabic]] which was then retranslated into Western [[Europe]]an [[language]]s during and following the [[Crusade]]s, especially those involving the [[Spain|Spanish]] [[Moor]]s.

==See Also==

* [[Greek alternate titles]]

[[category:language]]

Known World

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''"The worlde as it is knowne."''

The [[map]] of the [[SCA]] world currently contains 19 [[kingdoms]].

This phrase is used to distinguish the events within
an SCA context from the [[modern]] or [[mundane]] world,
and also distinct from the historical world from which
the [[Society]] draws its inspiriation.

Also commonly spelled 'Knowne World'.

[http://www.skaldic.com/Pages/mapworld.htm Map of the Known World from skaldic.com]

''See also:''
* [[Current Middle Ages]]

[[category:SCAism]]

Chain stitch

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[[Embroidery]]

* How to do Chain Stitch - http://www.embroiderersguild.com/stitch/stitches/chain.html
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Middle Ages

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The '''Middle Ages''' (adjective = '''medieval''') was the ''middle'' period in a schematic division of [[European history]] into three 'ages': Classical civilization, the Middle Ages, and Modern Civilization. It is commonly considered as having lasted from the end of the Western [[Roman Empire]] ([[5th century]]) until the rise of national [[monarchy|monarchies]] and the beginnings of demographic and economic renewal after the [[Black Death]], [[Europe]]an overseas exploration and the cultural revival known as the [[Renaissance]] around the [[15th century]].

As the later Roman Empire changed its form and collapsed in the West, several [[Germanic]] and later [[Slavic]] peoples and the still-powerful regional noble families of the later Empire competed for power in different parts of Europe with one another and with the surviving eastern portion of the Roman Empire (commonly called the [[Byzantine Empire]] by modern Europeans).

The early part of the period is marked in western Europe by the greatly reduced power of centralised administration and the consequent alienation of [[government]] authority and responsibility for military organisation, [[tax]]ation and [[law]] and order at successive levels to provincial and local [[lord]]s supported directly from the proceeds of a portion of the territories over which they held military, political and judicial power. The later Middle Ages would see the regrowth of centralized power as countries came to be aware of their own national identities and strong rulers sought to expand the territory they organized under a central government. One well known version of this consolidation is known as the [[Albigensian Crusade]].

This hierarchy of reciprocal obligations, known as [[feudalism]] or the feudal system, binding each man to serve his superior in return for the latter's protection made for a confusion of territorial [[sovereign]]ty (as allegiances were subject to change over time, and were sometimes mutally contradictory), but the resulting ability of local arrangements to function in the absence of a strong royal power provided some resiliency in a political order distinguished by its lack of uniformity.

The spread of [[Christian]]ity from the Mediterranean area and from [[Ireland]] and [[Scotland]] throughout Europe and the absence of any firm alternative ideological basis for power meant that ecclesiastics became deeply involved in government, and provided the basis for a first European "identity" in the form of a [[religion]] common to most of the continent from at least the [[9th century]] until the separation of the [[Catholic]] and [[Orthodox church]]es (1054).

An example of this identity at work is the period loosely identified as the [[Crusade]]s, during which [[Pope]]s, [[king]]s, and [[emperor]]s tried to draw on Christian unity to wage [[war]] on [[Islam]], which was spreading along Europe's southern and eastern borders. Political unanimity in Europe was largely illusory, and the military support for most crusades was drawn from limited regions of Europe. Substantial areas of northern Europe also remained outside Christendom until the [[12th century|twelfth century]] or later.

'''[[Periodization]]'''

It is extremely difficult to decide when the Middle Ages ended, and in fact scholars assign different starting dates for the [[Renaissance]] in different parts of Europe. Most scholars who work in [[15th century]] [[Italy|Italian]] history, for instance, consider themselves Renaissance or Early Modern historians, while anyone working on [[England]] in the early 15th century is considered a medievalist. Others choose specific events, such as the Turkish capture of [[Constantinople]] or the end of the Anglo-French [[Hundred Years' War]] (both [[1453]]), or the fall of Muslim [[Spain]] or [[Christopher Columbus]]'s voyage to [[the Americas|America]] (both [[1492]]), to mark the period's end.

Similar differences are now emerging in connection with the start of the period. Traditionally, the Middle Ages is said to begin when the West Roman Empire formally ceased to exist in 476 CE. However, that date is not important in itself, since the West Roman Empire had been very weak for some time, while Roman culture was to survive at least in Italy for yet a few decades or more. Today, some date the beginning of the Middle Ages to the division and Christanisation of the Roman Empire ([[4th century]]) while others see the period to the rise of Islam ([[7th century]]) as "late Classical".

The Middle Ages in the West are often subdivided into an early period (sometimes called the "[[Dark Ages]]", at least from the fifth to eighth centuries) of shifting polities, a relatively low level of economic activity and successful incursions by non-Christian peoples (Slavs, [[Arab]]s, [[Scandinavia]]ns, [[Magyar]]s); a middle period (the High Middle Ages) of developed institutions of lordship and [[vassal]]age, [[castle]]-building and [[cavalry|mounted warfare]], and reviving urban and commercial life; and a later period of growing [[royal]] power, the rise of commercial interests and weakening customary ties of dependence, especially after the [[14th century|14th-century]] [[plague]].

== Life in medieval Europe ==
* [[arts]] and [[cultural life]]
** [[literature]]
** [[poetry]]
** [[dance]]
** [[architecture]] and [[sculpture]]
** [[European music]]
*** the [[troubador]]
** [[mural]]s and [[painting]]s
** [[tapestry]], and [[handicrafts]]
** [[book]]s, [[manuscript]]s, scribes and the art of [[bookbinding]]
** [[university|universities]]
* [[monastic orders]]
** [[Benedictine]]s
** [[Carthusian]]s
** [[Cistercian]]s
* mendicant friars
** [[Dominican]]s
** [[Franciscan]]s
** [[Carmelite]]s
* [[Black Death]] and [[health]] of populations
* [[politics]] and [[religion]]
** [[Crusades]]
** [[Papacy]]
** [[Inquisition]]
** [[Heresy]] e.g [[John Wyclif]]
** [[Alchemy]]
* [[everyday life]] in the Middle Ages
** [[guild]]s of [[craftsman|craftsmen]]
** [[Danse macabre]]

==Internal Links==
* [[warfare]]
* [[fortification]]
* [[siege weaponry]]
* [[Inquisition]]
* [[European music]]
* [[dance]]
* [[Pilgrimage]]
* [[Romanesque Architecture]]

=== External [[Garb]] Links ===
* One theory on how to make a [[bliaut]] and one of the better methods - http://jauncourt.i8.com/bliautho.htm
* The clothing index for Marguerie's Pages - http://jauncourt.i8.com/costume.htm
* Some Extant Clothing of the Middle Ages - http://www.virtue.to/articles/extant.html
* Some clothing of the Middle Ages, includes many sketches - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/cloth/bockhome.html
* Marc Carlsons' Excellent site. Goes up until the end of the [[16th century]] - http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-carlson/shoe/SHOEHOME.HTM
* Comparative study of Extant garments relevant to East [[Denmark]] - http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/garments/garments.html
* Robin Netherton's excellent work on the [[gothic]] fitted dress - http://netherton.net/robin/
* Another way of making [[kirtle]]s - http://sca-garb.freservers.com/articles/corikirtle.html
* Ten gore dress from Herjolfnes - http://sca-garb.freservers.com/articles/cotehardie.html
* Summary of Women's [[Cotehardie]]s - http://www.loudzen.com/users/jessica/cotehardie/index.html
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Cunnan:What is Cunnan?

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Cunnan:What isn't Cunnan?

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