[Bryn-gwlad] Camp Gear

[Coblaith Mhuimhneach]

Barnet wrote:
> . . .I am not a huge fan of director chairs (well nylon chairs in 
> general) covered or uncovered and was wondering about alterantives. 
> Some that is not too exspensive, looks well not like a nylon chair, 
> but is also fairly portable as I only have so much room in the car.

Stephen Francis Wiley has webbed directions for the replication of "The 
Lund Viking Stool" 
<http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikstool.html>.

One of Dragonwing's monthly columns is about a 16th-century break-down 
stool <http://midtown.net/dragonwing/col0003.htm>.


Master Charles Oakley's site <http://www.medievalwood.org/charles/> 
includes instructions for a coffer chair (e.g., "a period director's 
chair"), a 16th-century German fauldstool, a 16th-century folding 
chair, and "the Peacock chair".

Cariadoc offers instructions for "A Period Folding Chair" 
<http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Articles/folding_chair.html> 
from the 15th century, similar to the 16th-century folding chair above.

Thirteenthcentury.com has photos of and a text description of the 
building of a fauldstool 
<http://www.thirteenthcentury.com/pages/fauldstool01.html> based on 
13th-century illustrations and similar to the German fauldstool above.

"A 15th Century Chair You Can Build" 
<http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/chair115ct.pdf> gives 
instructions based on a Savonarola chair, similar in profile to the 
"peacock chair" above.


"A Viking Box Chair" 
<http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/chair3vkbox.pdf> describes a 
chair from the Oseberg ship burial and gives instructions for a 
reconstruction, with some ideas on how it might be adapted to fold up.

House Greydragon's library includes "A Gothic Break-Down Chair" 
<http://www.greydragon.org/furniture/chairs/index.html>, made to 
resemble a medieval box chair when assembled.

House Barra offers a simpler break-down chair with a similar profile 
<http://housebarra.com/projects/talschair/>.

Uilliam mac Ailéne mhic Seamuis has instructions for a folding version 
of the box chair <http://members.shaw.ca/uilliam/chair.htm>.

The Blood and Sawdust Homepage includes instructions for a knock-down 
panel chest <http://www.his.com/~tom/sca/projects/hutch.html> that 
could easily be adapted to make a period-looking box chair without 
wedges, "tabs", or hinges showing on the outside.


FYI, in case you just want something you can buy off the rack:  You can 
sometimes find wooden folding chairs similar to those mentioned on the 
first two sites for sale at Target, Bed Bath and Beyond, or other 
places that carry patio furniture or "party" furniture.


Coblaith Mhuimhneach
<mailto:Coblaith at sbcglobal.net>