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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF SACRED SPACES & THE KNOWN WORLD ARCHITECTURAL GUILD

Issue #1, April 1993

• Cover-with picture of the portable cottage 108 KB
• From the Editor
• CONSTRUCTING THE ROMAN TENT 66 KB
• What Has Gone Before--Article on what has gone before, and some ideas how to do it now 108 KB
• Interior Designers did What?--Article, with photos 112 KB
• *15TH CENTURY CHAIR YOU CAN BUILD*--Portable, curved legs and arms 147 KB
• Send in Your Crazy Ideas--Article--List of items/articles that may be of interest in future issues 112 KB
• Painted Wall Hangings and Backdrops--Article, how to 51 KB
• *BUILDING THE IRISH TUAM*--Early period chair, breaks down for transport 124 KB
• Scavenger's Corner--Good places to find good stuff
• *PLANS FOR A PORTABLE COTTAGE--Part I 320 KB, *PLANS FOR A PORTABLE HOUSE, Part II 231 KB (photo at left courtesy Alexander the Lost )

• From the Editor 85 KB
• More Letters 86 KB
• Cadbury Camp: Reconstructing a Celtic Hillfort--article and photos of elaborate gate structure at Pennsic 471 KB--BIG file!
• Four Years of Gates--House Asgard's Pennsic Legacy 212 KB
• Gates From History--A few ideas for future-past gates--article 222 KB
• Medieval Furniture: Part I--Ancient Tables--article with photos 200 KB
• *A PORTABLE TRESTLE TABLE--Plans 159 KB
• *RECONSTRUCT A TUDOR TABLE OF THE YEAR A.D. 1520*--Massive wooden table 199 KB
• *THE CADBURY TORCH* 90 KB
• LOFTSTUE: A Permanent Storage/Living Space--Article on building a Viking house165 KB
• Tricks of The Trade--article on simulating leather, making backdrops,portable flooring, simulating stone 185 KB

• From the Editor 106 KB
• ALTHING CAMP--Recreate a Viking/Icelandic camp--article with instructions353 KB
• Early Furnishings--Part II: Ancient Chairs 107 KB
• *VIKING BOX CHAIR* 157 KB
• *FOLDING CAMP STOOLS OF ROMAN BRITAIN--With Plans 159 KB
• *The Painted Floor Cloth--An alternative to traditional flooring materials--(Article with Instructions) 159 KB
• Pennsic--The debate goes on--article 118 KB
• *BUILD A 15TH CENTURY PAVILION 230 KB

• From The Editor 92 KB
• Ancient Furniture--Part III: BEDS--Article with photos 94 KB
• *SOMETHING TO SLEEP ON*--Plans for portable wood frame bed with canvas and rope mattress support 253 KB
• *BUILD A SIMPLE CHEST--Plans for a rectangular, flat-topped chest 161 KB
• Simulating Stone--Article 40 KB
• *LITTLE CANFIELD COFFER--Plans for 13th Century English chest 132 KB
• Would You Believe--A Portable Period Shower?--Article with photo 90 KB
• Barley Hall--article on restored 16th Century English town house 175 KB
• More images of Barley Hall (different web site)
• *STARGAZER CHAIR PLANS--plans for the two-board non-period 'Viking Chair'91 KB
• Sources for your library--list of good books 51 KB

• From the Editor 97 KB
• Letters 112 KB
• A Poem in Glass--A brief history of stained glass of the 13th Century 160 KB
• Simulating Stained Glass -article with photos and instructions 190KB
• *A VIKING TENT*--(Ridgepole, and two vertical poles, like a geteld)60 KB
• *Simple. Just make a folding frame (for your tent)
• THE CHARTES PROJECT--article with details of the different elements needed to recreate Chartres 167 KB
• An Ancient Timber House Reconstructed in Sweden--article with excellent line drawing 122 KB
• *KETTLE STAND--Plans for metal stand 27 KB
• Clamps for wooden columns-article showing how to wrap and clamp a column 32 KB

• From the Editor 79 KB
• Letters 139 KB
• Shadowy Fixtures (period lighting article) AND
• *14th CENTURY SPANISH HANGING CANDELABRA 76 KB
• Lantern Documentation--article with illustrations 95 KB
• *LIGHTING THE VIRGIN'S WAY--Plans for a Gothic candelabra 181 KB
• *AN ELIZABETHAN TABLE PROJECT FOR EXPERIENCED CARPENTERS 30 KB
• Ritual Sacrifice in Medieval Foundations 158 KB
• Period House Plans 80 KB
• Cruck Buildings 234 KB
• The Italian Renaissance Interior; 1400-1600--book review 98 KB
• Last Word: Chartres 108 KB

• From the Editor--Review of the Chartres project 101 KB
• Letters 80 KB
• Duns and Brochs--Scotland's Ancient Celtic Castles and Keeps--article with illustrations186 KB
• Spanish Candelabras of the 11th Century--article with photos
• CHARTRES PROJECT REPORT--Article, Part I 341 KB
• CHARTRES PROJECT REPORT--Article, Part II 298 KB
• The Columns 200 KB
• The Shrine of the Virgin's Veil 51 KB
• Labyrinth 94 KB
• The Statuary 186 KB
• The Windows 251 KB
• The Candelabras
• Nuns and Monks 65 KB
• Chartres--One Last Look 96 KB
• Cruck House 370 KB
• Pennsic Progress 1994--Article on Pennsic architecture 84 KB

Issue #8, Winter 1994

• Letters80 KB
• Staking Tents--article 91 KB
• Great Halls and Houses of Ireland's Chieftains--article 249 KB
• *GLASTONBURY CHAIR--(NOTE: This is the ULTIMATE medieval chair, for experienced woodworkers)
• *GLASTONBURY CHAIR: Part I (photo, text, materials list) 220 KB
• *GLASTONBURY CHAIR: Part II (plans, detail of carving) 213 KB

• From the Editor 78 KB
• Letters
• *THE MONGOLIAN YURT, Part I 263 KB (NOTE: These are an older style yurt, with a HEAVY roof ring. Feel free to download them to help you understand the frame and covering better, but if you are doing SCA yurts, you will probably want to use a different frame.
• *THE MONGOLIAN YURT, Part II 230 KB
• Paths that lead within...MAZES
• Something to jump over---an early candlestick--plans

• *THE SLIGO CHAIR--variation on the Tuam Irish chair 138 KB

• From the Editor
• The Norse "Sweathouse"--plans for a permanent, period sauna 60 KB
• *A SIMPLE GOTHIC BENCH 359 KB

• Re-Visiting the White Horse--White Horse of Uffington Reconstruction at Pennsic XXII 172 KB
• MORE THAN A YURT: TENTS OF THE HIMALAYAS 333 KB

• OSBERG BED--Extrapolating Measurements for the Construction of an Artifact VERY large file.  Be patient.

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