[Bryn-gwlad] Feast Gear

[caladin]

I third the already seconded suggestion that you start out with simple 
inexpensive and nearly unbreakable
wooden feast gear with simple utensils. Sealed in some kind of poly by 
prefernce, to make your life simpler
and biologically safer.

Once you have that, dig in to deeper and cooler, and more perfect 
stuff.. but get a rigid container for them,
preferalby a attractive wooden chest of some kind. I can't tell you the 
sensation and emotions that go with dropping
your armor helm first on an irreplacable piece of ceramic work that you 
value highly, so I'll just
mention that you don't feel particularly smart at that point in your life.

Cal-

Sandy Straubhaar wrote:

>Maelgwyn wrote, answering Rahil:
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>>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
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>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.
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>brynhildr
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