[Bryn-gwlad] documenting gamecloths

[Richard Yeager]

I don't disagree (I happen to be one fo the people
that make and sell cloth game boards).  I also
remember seeing a description of the Lapps using
reindeer skins as boards.  If memory serves, they
painted and embroidered them.  I haven't refound the
reference yet but I fear this was a little later
timeframe.

Just to stir discussions up, I don't remember seeing
references to people using gameboxes, at least not the
type that are being discussed here and in the
timeframe we are concerned with.  Certainly not the
small basswood type that we can find at the craft
stores.

Cuan


--- Nan <murfnik at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I found the same in a book, when I was researching
> my pachisi set (and yes
> the original spelling was pachisi).  But who's to
> say that the crusaders
> didn't bring cloth-based games back with them?
> 
> Kate
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bryn-gwlad-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
> [mailto:bryn-gwlad-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On
> Behalf Of Richard Yeager
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 4:15 PM
> To: Barony of Bryn Gwlad
> Subject: Re: [Bryn-gwlad] documenting gamecloths
> 
> I was searching the hist games archives earlier
> seeking any clues about documentation of cloth as
> game
> boards. So far I have found one reference asserting
> that cloth was not used in Europe but that it was
> common in the muslim realms.  Unfortunately, the
> link
> provided to document the assertion is no longer
> working.  If I can avoid work a bit longer I will
> see
> what else I can find.
> 
> Cuan mac Niall
> 
>  
> --- nweders at mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> 
> > At 03:30 PM 3/23/2007, you wrote:
> > >Clare wrote:
> > > > this web site seems to infer that cloth gaming
> > boards were used by
> > > > Vikings
> > > >
> > > > http://www.lothene.demon.co.uk/school5.html
> > >
> > >
> > >Thanks!  I've e-mailed to ask for their sources. 
> > I'll share what I
> > >hear.
> > 
> > 
> > Cool.  I'm still looking but figuring out the
> > correct Google word 
> > arrangement is sometimes challenging.  You never
> > know what you find until 
> > you start looking for it.  I'll go through the
> stuff
> > about chess when I get 
> > home and see if they say anything because I wasn't
> > looking for that info 
> > when I was researching. .  I have a bunch of
> > illustrations and drawings of 
> > chess pieces and when the rules changed on
> movement.
> >  Also the evolution of 
> > the Queen as a chess piece.
> > 
> > Clare
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