The Arts and Sciences is a broad category within the SCA that includes all sorts of ways of knowing and creating things from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Shire holds workshops on particular topics, and events often include classes. A&S workshops are announced on the email list and Facebook page, or contact the Minister of Arts and Sciences at MOAS@hartshorn-dale.eastkingdom.org .
Current regular Arts & Sciences gatherings are held virtually twice a month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays. Other, in-person gatherings are often scheduled once or twice a month. Please see the calendar for more details.
If there is a skill you’d like to learn, contact the Minister of Arts and Sciences to find a teacher. Recent workshops have included making Viking garb, painting silk banners, bronze casting, and velvet embossing.
The best way to understand the range of A&S (as the Arts & Sciences are often called) is visually. The items in the gallery below were made by members of the Shire.
A display on making ink from boiled linseed oil.
Glass beads made by Lissa Underhill
Glass beads made by Lissa Underhill
Painting a silk banner
Embroidered partlet, made by Alison, for Kathryn Perry. Photo by Kathryn Perry.
Embroidered partlet, made by Alison, for Kathryn Perry. Photo by Kathryn Perry.
Embroidered partlet, made by Alison, for Kathryn Perry. Photo by Kathryn Perry.
Embroidered partlet, made by Alison, for Kathryn Perry. Photo by Kathryn Perry.
Painted silk banner
Painted silk banner. The silk was painted with an egg white resist and then painted with dyes. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Embroidered Winged Lion
An unfinished sampler of one of the creatures from the border of the Bayeux Tapestry, done with wool, in the Bayeux Tapestry stitch. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Two-color lucet
Two-color lucet, in progress. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Glass beads made by Lissa Underhill
Glass beads made by Lissa Underhill
Girdle book
A girdle book, started in a class at Pennsic. Girdle book were worn on the belt. Linen, paper, ribbon, leather. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Six-in-one Persian chain
Six-in-one Persian chain, made of 1/8 inch 22 gauge bronze rings. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Little leather-bound book
A little leather bound wooden book, made in a class at Shire Wars 6. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Embroidered Lion
A sampler of one of the creatures from the border of the Bayeux Tapestry, done with wool, in the Bayeux Tapestry stitch. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Coptic-style book
Coptic-style book (if I'm remembering the class description correctly), made in a class at Pennsic. Photo: Sarah le Payller.
Velvet embossing samples
The results of a velvet embossing workshop.
Pomanders
Pomanders made in a workshop.
Embroidered bag, made by Ratnavati Bai and with lucet trim by Sarah le Payller, for Kathryn Perry.
Embroidered bag, made by Ratnavati Bai and with lucet trim by Sarah le Payller, for Kathryn Perry.
