The Shire of Rivenwood Tower Recommended Web-links and References

The following references are personal recommendations from members of the Shire. We do our best to maintain high quality in our own web-pages and that includes sites we link to however; we can not guarantee anything from outside of the rivenwoodtower.org website. Please refer to our disclaimer page for more information or corrections.

Anna Schuster

Rivenwood Tower News
Unofficial News Blog for The Shire of Rivenwood Tower

Vilhjalmr Bjarkason's Recommendations

General

Enchanting Tents
Canvas pavilions, camp furniture, candle lanterns, leather goods
I. Marc Carlson's Homepage at TU
General medieval information, comprehensive clothing and shoes

Armoury

The Armour Archive
Armour of all types, discussion groups, patterns, techniques, etc.
The Bladeturner Armoury
Armouring information
Chainfire Maille and Armor
Chain maille

Archery

3Rivers Archery Equipment
Traditional youth archery bows and arrows, and long bow hunting
Argent Lupus
Combat archery
The Footed Shaft
Custom bows, Black tail, Bob Lee, and Howard Hill products, production bows by Martin and Bear
Kustom King Traditional Archery
Traditional archery supplies

Vikings

Halvgrimr's Viking & Pre-Viking Helm Presentation
Pre Viking, Viking and Viking age helms from grave-sites.
Viking Answer Lady
General Viking information & Viking names

Lord Wilhelm vonAmbor's Recommendations

Armoury

Mallet d'Argent armour for historical re-creators
Master Cad's website - he is Master Armour from the cities. A good armor resource.
Oaks Armoury
Chris Harveaux, a local armorer from Albert Lea, Minnesota, that is renown for his finger gauntlets.

Ishikawa Ayame's Recommendations Recommendations

Japanese

Tousando Message board
Everything from Armor and Food to Clothing and Poetry discussed here. Very active armor and fighting sections.
SCA JML Yahoo list
A fairly active list with lots of good discussion.
Reconstructing History
Kass McGann's site with patterns and articles of interest to those with a Japanese persona.
Wodeford Hall
Saionji does Japanese and she does it well! Lots of how-to and excellent article of why she does Japanese.
Anne Liese's Fibers and Stuff - Japanese Index
Some good how-to for Japanese garb. Explains Hakama construction well.
Sengoku Daimyo homepage
Lots of good stuff here. Includes "An Online Japanese Miscellany". Some sections have been under construction forever.

Find others with Japanese/Asian Persona:

SCA Asian Personae Survey
SCA Japanese Membership Map

Lady Patrice's Recommendations

Medieval Dance

Roughty Toughty Video
Members of the SCA's Shire of Endewearde practice a medieval dance known as Roughty Toughty at the Endewearde Revel, March 10, 2007
Del's Dance Book
This has a lot of dance information and includes music information as well.

Middle Eastern Dance

THE WORLD'S OLDEST DANCE: The Origins of Oriental Dance
THE WORLD'S OLDEST DANCE: The Origins of Oriental Dance By Karol Henderson Hardin a.k.a. Cala of Savatthi

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