teaching in Cloondara tonight

[ppfuf]

GM and I are taking our 14-16th century tableware class on the road to Cloondara tonight. I'm fussing over the slide presentation on my lunch hour. Does anybody who's taken the class before have any suggestions? I feel like I'm trying to include too much. This class is just about the material culture (spoons, plates, cups, linens) not the etiquette or server's class.
In addition to the "how we made it" discussion, we hope to include some of the "where you can buy it" so if you have links to share, please write me before 4pm pacific time today. 

Stuff you can buy:

Ceramics, Knives, Table Linens, all kinds of things from Historic Enterprises (info@historicenterprises.com)
http://historicenterprises.biz/reenactment-goods-cutlery-c-102_163.html
Drinking vessels:
http://historicenterprises.biz/reenactment-goods-drinking-vessels-c-102_194.html

Trenchers, spoons, salts, misc tableware from Billy and Charlie's: http://www.billyandcharlie.com/misc.html

Steve Millingham Pewter Replicas:
Cutlery and Tableware http://www.pewterreplicas.com/dept.asp?id=38
Drinking Vessels http://www.pewterreplicas.com/dept.asp?id=36

Mercy the Potter,  cups, plates, animal head pitchers!: http://www.rakurakutei.com/sales.htm

Knives from Gaukler Medieval Wares
http://medievalwares.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=66_99_105

Cups, water jugs
http://ancientpots.homestead.com/gallery.html

Aquamaniles and pitchers from GRIFFIN DYEWORKS & FIBER ARTS
http://www.twoheartsentwinedpottery.com/

Comments

[the-cheese-lady.livejournal.com]

I live very close to Master Eadric the Potter, he makes a lot of period replica cooking pottery. Skillets, pipkins, pie plates (the unglazed kind for standing "coffin" pastry), chafing dishes, mixing bowls, jars and pots, as well as pottery tableware.

His website is: http://www.ironwoodpotterystudio.com/

The only potter I've found that's comparable is Two Hearts Entwined/Griffin Dyeworks down in CAID.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! Does he have a blog or a more detailed website anywhere?

[the-cheese-lady.livejournal.com]

Here's his LJ: http://thatpotteryguy.livejournal.com/. He's moved websites recently, so this one is not very interactive yet.

His work is very, very good and of high quality. Kira and I seem to purchase something every time we see him.

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

We need a flesh hook. For unruly students. And bosses :-(

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

I don't know where mine went. Waaah!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I'll see your Waaah: I can't find the cute little cups that go with our 8-sided 15th century pitcher!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you're having a bad day.
But flesh hooks are for the kitchen, not the table. At least, I can;t think of a picture that included one at the table.

[joycebre.livejournal.com]

they'd be handy for catching your server when they forgot to replenish your platters. :-)

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

The b-d day seems to be going around. It got better. :-)

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I'm glad to hear that. Between you, Juan and the princess I was beginning to wonder if it was safe to leave my cube.

[gormflaith.livejournal.com]

should be now :-)

Cloondara Class

[mafirilo.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to your class!

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

The class went pretty well, but we failed on the "how to make it" section. Ah well. Next time, we might just remove the 14th century and focus on the 15/16th.
Here's the final handout in case we need it again.
European tableware from the 14th to the 16th century

Stuff you can buy:

Ceramics, Knives, Table Linens, all kinds of things from Historic Enterprises http://historicenterprises.biz/reenactment-goods-cutlery-c-102_163.html and Drinking vessels: http://historicenterprises.biz/reenactment-goods-drinking-vessels-c-102_194.html

Trenchers, spoons, salts, misc tableware from Billy and Charlie's: http://www.billyandcharlie.com/misc.html

Mercy the Potter, cups, plates, animal head pitchers!: http://www.rakurakutei.com/sales.htm

Knives from Gaukler Medieval Wares http://medievalwares.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=66_99_105

Aquamaniles and pitchers from GRIFFIN DYEWORKS & FIBER ARTS http://www.twoheartsentwinedpottery.com/

Steve Millingham Pewter Replicas, Cutlery and Tableware http://www.pewterreplicas.com/dept.asp?id=38 and Drinking Vessels http://www.pewterreplicas.com/dept.asp?id=36

Eadric the Potter http://www.ironwoodpotterystudio.com/

Glass cups, glasses, pitchers, but the site appears to be entirely in Swedish (I'm looking for their current American distributor): http://www.scanglas.se/index.php?page=Katalog hösten -09

Cups, water jugs http://ancientpots.homestead.com/gallery.html

Ceramics of all kinds by Trinity Court Potters: http://www.trinitycourtpotteries.co.uk/trintiycourt_home.htm

Mazers! http://www.robin-wood.co.uk/mazer-quaiche.htm

Metal pitchers, cups and plates from Medieval Design, http://www.medievaldesign.com/prodotti.asp?form_chiave=12

Further reading on material culture:

Medieval Banquets by Constance B. Hieatt http://www.answers.com/topic/medieval-banquets
History of Forks, by Deborah Murray http://www.geocities.com/curvess2000/genesis_of_the_dining_fork_in_eu
Medieval and Renaissance Material Culture (a great collection of period paintings and pictures): http://www.larsdatter.com/feastgear.htm

Things you, and your local group, can do to create a more period feast hall

EASY – white table cloths (or while with blue decorations), one-side seating, drinks poured out of bottles into pitchers, male servers, salt cellars, ask guests to use smaller plates, server's towels, learn to carve pies...

MEDIUM – learn to carve a chicken, hand-washing, free standing pie crusts, cloth of honor behind the head table, special chairs for head table...

HARD – Benches, bread or pewter trenchers, period serving ware (or at least not plastic), learn to carve a pig or a goat...

Free Books that discuss the setting up of, and expected behavior in, early-modern feast halls:
The Babees Book By Frederick James Furnivall (scanned version) http://books.google.com/books?id=KQYrAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=The+Babees+Book
The Babees Book By Frederick James Furnivall (transcription) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=cme;cc=cme;view=toc;idno=AHA6127.0001.001
Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Frederick J. Furnivall http://www.archive.org/stream/caxtonsbookofcur14761gut/14761.txt
Two fifteenth-century cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 Austin, Thomas. 1888. http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/twofifteenthcent00austuoft/twofifteenthcent00austuoft.pdf