How to History

[Beornmann]

The website How to History offers a divers series of videos that teach a variety of medieval crafts of use to re-enactors.

Included on the website are:

•12th – 13th Century Champleve Enameling
•Wind Yarn with a Niddy Noddy
•How to Make a Bone Needle for Nalbinding
•How to Make a Rivet
•How to Set a Copper Rivet
•How to Set a Double Cap or Jiffy Rivet
•How to Forge a Twist – Blacksmithing
•Handmade Nails-Blacksmithing Video
•How to Make a Medieval Square Drum
•Metal work: How to Raise a Copper Bowl
•How to Make a Simple Cheese
•How to Embroider a Braided Edge
•How to Turn Lace Bobbins on a Bow Lathe
•Nalbinding: How to Work the Oslo Stitch
•How to Fill a Calligraphy Pen Nib
•How Calligraphy Pens Work
•Basic Hand Sewing Stitches
•How to Prepare Waxed Ends for Hand Sewing Leather
•How to Make a Leather Belt
•How to Hand Stitch Leather
•How to Sharpen a Leather Awl
•How to Make a Leather Skiver or Splitter
•How to Sew a French Seam
•How to Make Arrows for a Medieval English Longbow
•How to do Sprang
•Nalbinding: How to Work a York Stitch
•How to Make a Lucet Braided Cord
•How to Make Buckles from Nails
•How to Splice Yarn for Nalbinding
•How to Make a Medieval Leather Pouch
•How to do a Pivot in Nalbinding
•How to Make Brass Bezants
•How to Forge a Pilum Shank-Blacksmithing

as reported on SCAtoday.net

[Cleddyf]

wow

[Menelgor]

Damn, that's awesome...

[Mirimaran]

Very cool. We've done some of that ourselves, my wife just got into nalbinding and made all her needles from wood. Thanks for the link!

[Greg]

...and suddenly, all the library books Greg recently checked out were forgotten.