[Bryn-gwlad] Feast Gear

[Sandy Straubhaar]

Maelgwyn wrote, answering Rahil:

>
>There just isn't any generic medieval feast gear (or clothing, etc.)
>suitable to over 1000 years of history across an entire continent of 
>diverse
>cultures. I can help with 6th or 16th century British information, or I can
>help you research your own chosen time and place.  Meanwhile it is hard to
>go wrong with a simple wood or ceramic bowl and plate, a metal spoon and a
>sharp knife just to get started.
>
>Maelgwyn

What he said.
I've been playing on and off for decades, and raised three kids in the SCA, 
and sat a throne (Middle Kingdom), and I still eat off of wooden plates and 
bowls.  I drink out of leather drinking jacks made by Morgan the Tanner of 
Calontir sometime in the eighties.  (They were tourney prizes that Reynard 
won at Pennsic once upon a time.)
None of these things break, whereas glass and ceramic (that you love) might 
easily break.
You can dress up your table with a nifty tablecloth (an Arabesque 
cotton-print might work for you, eh? something like . . .
http://biscuts.com/images/Fabrics%20Large/fab0009.jpg )
and nifty cutlery -- a nice knife, or whatever.
Brass candlesticks, maybe.
We use some cool Byzantine brass forks I picked up at some War or other.
All unbreakable. . .last for years until you lose them.

brynhildr