"I don't care HOW anachronistic some folk may think it, I cannot manage a whole weekend without properly brewed tea and coffee. And anyway, this is fantasy LARP, not reenactment. Get over it."
Wow. BREATHE! And unlax. Since it is fantasy LARP, does it matter at all what some folk may think about anachronisms? (Those wouldn't be the same folk trying to conceal---or not conceal---their all too modern steel or aluminum cans of their beverage of choice, would they?)
"I have also commissioned a lovely medieval style leather girdle with a ring rather than a buckle, and a pouch to go with it. They were not cheap, but they will be lovely and last many years. Pics when it gets here." Curious to know about the belt with the ring. Keen to see pics, too. For the longest time, we've been cheerfully admitting we have no documentation for that particular SCA "convention." Belts with rings instead of buckles have been used in the Society for Creative Anachronism virtually since the very first tournament held back in 1966. No one gets on anyone's case for using a ring cinch on a leather belt or girdle (at least, they ought not be getting on anyone's case!) instead of a buckle.
So, the question I want to ask is one of curiosity and interest: have you discovered documentation for a leather strap cinched with a ring instead of a buckle worn by a human being instead of a pack animal (which latter use we can document)? And if you have, would you share, pretty pretty please?
No documentation for the belt from me! I just rather like the look of it, and it fits with my character. The ring is patterned, but with nothing that looks cultural, tribal, or anything like that. I'm fighting my instinctive grab for all things Celtic and Viking, and going for something more generic and abstract.
The thing with this game is that we are going for the high medieval fantasy look: nothing later than 1500, nothing earlier than 800. No Dark Ages or Romans or Ancient Greeks. Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The Once and Future King, mixed with Henry V, The Wars of The Roses, and the Court of Eleanor of Aquitain! In fact, everything the Pre-Rafaelites thought England OUGHT to have been, with added orcs and magic! The Italian Renaissance just gets a look in with The League nation, but my Marchers are more like King John, the Magna Carta, and the Robber Barons!
Tea and coffee will be consumed. I just don't want their vessels to look out of place in what is generally going to look like the camp of a widow who owns her own commercial herb garden and who also works as an apothicary and fairly low key magic user (as magic is used in healing), in a camp that wouldn't look too out of place in a historically accurately set production of Henry V.
Hey; my leather "ring belt" [SCA glossary, although unofficial; if you speak of a "ring belt" we all know what is meant within SCA context] was my first "official" piece of garb, and I still have it and love it and for earlier period encampments I definitely still use it. I had already made several tunicas before that belt, but that belt (made from my purchased belt blank, a heavy ring, and one rivet supplied by the friend who did the riveting) somehow made everything good, even the belt pouch made of fabric cut aways from other projects. To this day I couldn't tell you exactly why: it just felt good, having it and wearing it.
Wow.
BREATHE!
And unlax. Since it is fantasy LARP, does it matter at all what some folk may think about anachronisms? (Those wouldn't be the same folk trying to conceal---or not conceal---their all too modern steel or aluminum cans of their beverage of choice, would they?)
"I have also commissioned a lovely medieval style leather girdle with a ring rather than a buckle, and a pouch to go with it. They were not cheap, but they will be lovely and last many years. Pics when it gets here."
Curious to know about the belt with the ring. Keen to see pics, too.
For the longest time, we've been cheerfully admitting we have no documentation for that particular SCA "convention." Belts with rings instead of buckles have been used in the Society for Creative Anachronism virtually since the very first tournament held back in 1966. No one gets on anyone's case for using a ring cinch on a leather belt or girdle (at least, they ought not be getting on anyone's case!) instead of a buckle.
So, the question I want to ask is one of curiosity and interest: have you discovered documentation for a leather strap cinched with a ring instead of a buckle worn by a human being instead of a pack animal (which latter use we can document)? And if you have, would you share, pretty pretty please?
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The thing with this game is that we are going for the high medieval fantasy look: nothing later than 1500, nothing earlier than 800. No Dark Ages or Romans or Ancient Greeks. Narnia, Lord of the Rings, The Once and Future King, mixed with Henry V, The Wars of The Roses, and the Court of Eleanor of Aquitain! In fact, everything the Pre-Rafaelites thought England OUGHT to have been, with added orcs and magic! The Italian Renaissance just gets a look in with The League nation, but my Marchers are more like King John, the Magna Carta, and the Robber Barons!
Tea and coffee will be consumed. I just don't want their vessels to look out of place in what is generally going to look like the camp of a widow who owns her own commercial herb garden and who also works as an apothicary and fairly low key magic user (as magic is used in healing), in a camp that wouldn't look too out of place in a historically accurately set production of Henry V.
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To this day I couldn't tell you exactly why: it just felt good, having it and wearing it.
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