Hello, I am trying to do a candle making demonstration with our SCA group for our museum comes to life event. I am going to be making tallow and bees wax...
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Michael Hurley
mephit_stoph...
Jul 11, 2012 8:56 pm
... I'm afraid the inexpensive part may be hard to come by. Michael's sells beeswax in bulk and that may be your cheapest option (per pound, anyway), but you...
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Laurie Clarkston
garadh...
Jul 12, 2012 1:42 am
You can contact the "Bee Folks" -- google them. They live in Maryland and come to Pennsic.  Rachael Jarvis at Walnuthollowworkshop@... sells...
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trephinelabro
Jul 13, 2012 6:28 pm
Ylaire, There is an edited book published in 1998 entitled "Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650." The editors are Trevor Dean and K. Lowe, ISBN 0-521-55402-0. It's an...
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LJonthebay
wodeford
Jul 13, 2012 8:06 pm
Greetings to the list: (This missive is going out to various people and lists, so please forgive me if some of the things mentioned don't pertain to your ...
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Cilean_69
Jul 16, 2012 12:02 am
Johann, I would love to help you! Please allow me to be of assistance if you need any help, I can do several demonstrations, and I am planning on attending...
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Katherine Throckmorton
katherine_th...
Jul 16, 2012 2:44 am
I would be very interested in participating as well, and would be willing to act as a local liaison/deputy if you need one. -Katherine Throckmorton. ... ...
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Jen Dobyns
jendobyns_md...
Jul 16, 2012 10:47 pm
Once upon a time I got the "caps" from the beekeepers at our local university. They are full of debris as well as the wax, you have to melt it all down in a...
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Tiffany Brown
tbro3a
Jul 17, 2012 3:20 am
Has anyone had a chance to look at this book from an authenticist's perspective yet? Also if they have, how narrow is his definition of medieval? How well ...
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Cristal Delamer
cristalmer
Jul 17, 2012 4:45 am
This is a great book and has been on my wish list for quite some time. The paperback is just coming out now so i would grab it if I were you. I plan to do so....
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Cilean_69
Jul 18, 2012 12:28 am
So they found a pair of ladies undies as well, it is a good read but I am waiting for the University information ...
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Sigrid Briansdotter
sigridkitty
Jul 18, 2012 12:48 am
... The brief article we are seeing in the Daily Mail seems to coincide with the August issue of the "BBC History Magazine" hitting the stands today. Beatriz...
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Tiffany Brown
tbro3a
Jul 18, 2012 12:59 am
... Thanks very much! I'd hope for a 12-14th C interpretation with the name medeival used, but it did seem less likely given the greater sparcity of evidence....
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Brad Moore
mamluk
Jul 18, 2012 3:22 am
I'm curious how we can be certain they are women's undies? They look just like the garments worn by men in the Men's Bath by Albrecht Durer. Not to say...
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Heather Rose Jones
heather_rose...
Jul 18, 2012 3:59 am
... They found a pair of underpants. I have yet to see any sound reason for identifying them as _women's_ underpants.** Nevertheless, OMG we have a surviving...
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Joe Jj
lady_leonard...
Jul 18, 2012 4:26 am
Which explains why the many references in texts to women's underwear. I'm working on gathering references and images of the types for a paper. Thank you for...
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gardinladi
Jul 18, 2012 8:46 pm
This may be a long shot, but do you know anyone who is on the Altar Guild or helps out at their church who still uses beeswax candles? As a teenager ours still...
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christopher
chris_kletke
Jul 19, 2012 6:01 pm
Ok I with your advice I found some really great sources of bees wax a few local bee keepers are going to give me their excess wax as it's for a good cause of...
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Diane Dooley
tasha_medvedeva
Jul 19, 2012 6:28 pm
Now you have me curious. If you've never done this before, why choose it as a thing to demonstrate? I've dipped candles before at a colonial village, and while...
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christopher
chris_kletke
Jul 19, 2012 10:12 pm
MESSAGE SNIPPED BY MODERATOR SO AS NOT TO REPEAT THE FOUR PRECEDING POSTS. Well our group decided to do it and sounded interesting to me and I have about 4...
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Jessica M
jessicam11402
Jul 20, 2012 3:16 pm
Just saw the post, I use beeswax to seal my period cheese. I buy it from here- http://www.cheesemaking.com/BeeswaxOnePound.html $12 a pound, if you need more...
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xina007eu
Jul 26, 2012 2:28 pm
Hi all, The scientist who is working on these finds, Beatrix Nutz, thinks they are men's underpants. Unfortunately, she has not yet found someone who is...
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Scott Carledge
thlcolmdubh
Jul 28, 2012 6:18 pm
After attending Tangwystyl's class on "Getting into Women's Underwear," I shall hold any decision in abeyance until I hear (read) something from the expert....
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lilinah@...
urtatim_alqu...
Jul 29, 2012 3:41 pm
... Well, there's one 16th c. Ottoman underpants, called chakshir, which i have reproduced in my size... So, OMG, we have a surviving pair of medieval European...
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Honour Horne-Jaruk
jarukcomp
Jul 29, 2012 5:43 pm
... ...And we have four (or more) 16th century Italian undrepants. Knee-length, but still... Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member- ...
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Heather Rose Jones
heather_rose...
Jul 29, 2012 6:45 pm
I tend to count 16th century as post-medieval. (After all, we have 16th c. underpants from Italy as well.) Tangwystyl...
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Cilean_69
Aug 2, 2012 12:45 am
I am dying to make one of these but I don't know how and I was hoping that I could find a how to tutorial to help with making these so if anyone knows of any...
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Catherine Olanich Ray...
cathyr19355
Aug 3, 2012 8:51 pm
... What reasons are those? We know more about men's underpants from artwork, and they look more like modern tighty-whiteys than anything else, and not like...
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Heather Rose Jones
heather_rose...
Aug 4, 2012 4:01 am
... I forget whether the topic has been covered on this list since my post. (The discussion has been going on in parallel on at least a dozen different lists...
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LJonthebay
wodeford
Aug 5, 2012 12:04 am
... Have you been here yet, Cilean-hime? Saionji Shonagon West Kingdom...
