[Sca-cooks] Tableware

[Elaine Koogler]

And, if you're worried about things breaking in your feast basket, you can
make little bags out of bubble plastic by cutting off a length and using an
old iron set on low or some other heat source to seal the edges together.  I
have a number that came with stuff I ordered in them, and they work really
well.  And if they get dirty, you can wash them with soap and water.

Another alternative from my days as a traveling antique dealer is to use bed
liners.  NOT diapers, but the bedliners that they use in hospitals.  You can
buy them by the package in many drugstores.  Again, they cushion your
dinnerware and keep it from banging up against another item and breaking.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mercy Neumark" <mneumark at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Tableware


> >Does anyone have recommendations on sources for period (or
> >period-appearing) tableware? I've been relying on Chris for feast >gear,
> >but I think I should be thinking about getting my own, and don't want >to
> >break the bank doing it.
>
> Well, technically, there are potteries in Italy that still produce the
same
> style wares that they did in period, only a little less fancy.  If you go
> online and type in maiolica, you should get many hits.  Or even go on ebay
> and look for italian maiolica or spanish maiolica or even delfware.  I
THINK
> Pottery Barn carries some maiolica plates with blues, reds and yellows
with
> the diapering that is associated with scrollwork and illumination.
>
> The wooden plate thing sort of bothers me personally.  Unless you were
dirt
> poor, after the 11th century, most merchant,upper class lords and ladies
> ether ate off metal plates or had pottery (the aforementioned maiolica in
> europe, if you were in asia, you got the cool porcelain).  And a plate
isn't
> that much more costwise than a wooden bowl, and a ceramic plate is more
> hygenically safe (albeit wood isn't as fragile as a plate).
>
> I wrote an article for the TI which will be hopefully published next year
> sometime on maiolica. Yeay! And you all thought I only preached the
gossiple
> of pottery here, huh?  Convert!  Convert you evil ways! ;)
>
> --Arte the flag waver for pottery
>
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