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Charinthalis said:
> umm it states that costume jewlery was only worn by the
> clergy and crown...
> so it couldnt have been glass.

Where does it say that? There is a comment in the Florilegium
on a sumptuary law that does have that restriction. However,
it is much later than the 12th Century. Also, the mere
fact that the law exists says that at least some folks
were wearing fake gemstones made of glass.

> Also got a new one... Period Taxidermy??

You mean stuffing animals? I'm not sure it was
done, at least as mounted animals or heads. No, I
don't think I have any information on that. But I'm
not sure it was done in period.

There is information in the Florilegium on period
comments on suggesting that folks take a tanned
peacock skin with feathers on it, and use that to
drape a large bird with it. The comments say to do this
since the peacock meat didn't taste as pleasing as
other birds.

See:
peacocks-msg      (38K)  5/31/01    Serving peacock sotelties safely.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/peacocks-msg.html

There are also two bibliographies on leather in the CRAFTS
section, but I doubt that counts as taxidermy as the
results seldom look like what the animal started out
looking like.

Stefan