[Ravensfort] Fwd: [Ansteorra] RE: period can be cheap

L T ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 12 22:32:14 PST 2003


Another good post from the Ansteorran list that I thought ya'll'd like!
 
L

"C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.com> wrote:
From: "C. L. Ward" 
To: 
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:36:10 -0600
Subject: [Ansteorra] RE: period can be cheap

Mahee said:
>periodish furniture can be made for the
>price of 1 sheet of plywood, and the only
>real tool needed is a jig-saw. I often sit
>around designing how to make documentable
>furniture out of plywood, thus periodish.
>
>Early period table
>http://geocities.com/maithgen/wood/table/earlytable.html
>
1400's and forward tressle table
>http://geocities.com/maithgen/wood/ttable.html


These are cool, Mahee.

There's also info available out there these days for Viking furniture items,
and probably you can put most of this stuff together in a range of materials
and for varying cost, though for many you'll want a couple other tools, I
bet.

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for the Mastermyr Tool Chest. The
Wareham Forge Website.
http://www.warehamforge.ca/mbxpl.jpg

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for the Oseberg Sea Chest. The Wareham
Forge Website.
This chest appears as catalog item #161 in Roesdahl and Wilson's From Viking
to Crusader.
http://www.warehamforge.ca/obxpl.jpg

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for a Simple Bed from Oseberg. The
Wareham Forge Website.
The Oseberg Find included a number of beds. In addition to the best-known
examples with the elaborate, carved head-posts, there were simpler frame
beds as well, and the simpler type bed is being shown in these plans.
http://www.warehamforge.ca/obdpl.jpg

Oakley, Charles. A 10th Century Norwegian Bed: Being Based upon an Actual
Model Removed from the 10th Century Gokstad Ship. Furniture Plans by Master
Charles Oakley: The "Spiffing up Your Campsite" Series Webpage.
Includes discussion and diagrams for reconstructing the four-post style beds
from the Gokstad Ship Find.
http://www.medievalwood.org/charles/bedplan.html

Master Findlaech mac Alasdair. "Making a Tusk Tenon for Knockdown
Furniture".
Not a project, but a necessary skill for making certain types of Viking
furniture.
http://www.his.com/~tom/sca/tusktenons.pdf

Lord Aelfric of Sarisberie. "A Viking Box Chair". Sacred Spaces: the Journal
of the Known World Architectural Guild No. 3 (October 1993). pp. 10-11.
Based on the box chair in the Oseberg burial, includes plans.
http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/chair3vkbox.pdf

Master Gerekr fjarsjandi Rognvaldsson. "Norse Beds". Ravensgard Household
Website.
Brief discussion with pictures of the evidence for Viking Age beds.
http://www.ravensgard.org/gerekr/bed.html

Master Gerekr fjarsjandi Rognvaldsson. "Reproduction Norse Beds". Ravensgard
Household Website.
Discussion of reproductions and adaptations of Viking beds made by Master
Gerekr, with plans/diagrams.
http://www.ravensgard.org/prdunham/Gbed.html

Wyley, Stephen Francis. A Replica Viking Chest, based on the Mästermyr Find.
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikchest.html

Wyley, Stephen Francis. How to Make a Replica of a Viking Table Based on the
Sala Hytta Find.
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/viktable.html

Wyley, Stephen Francis. The 'Lund' Viking Stool: A Method of Replication.
http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikstool.html

Wyley, Stephen Francis. The Voxtorp Church Chest: Plans and Pictures of a
Replica.
http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Craft/voxtorp.html

::GUNNVOR::

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