A 15th century Milanese apiary
A mid-15th century Milanese copy of Virgil’s Georgica depicts an apiary in operation, representing one of the most comprehensive views we have of apiary operations in the High Middle Ages, […]
A mid-15th century Milanese copy of Virgil’s Georgica depicts an apiary in operation, representing one of the most comprehensive views we have of apiary operations in the High Middle Ages, […]
I made a small six panel chest, loosely modeled after the famous Viking Age Mästermyr chest from Sweden. This was not intended to be a faithful reconstruction, but a sort […]
One of the many projects that has kept me busy these past few years (as well as several major family life changes) has been my ongoing adventure in beekeeping! To […]
I love making these wooden toy swords for children! I made these for a Wiesenfeuer event a few years ago, and they were a big hit with the kids, so […]
I made some leather turnshoes and wooden pattens a while back. I made the shoes similar to styles I had seen in the Middle Ages Museum in Stockholm, Sweden and […]
This is an interesting 21st century perspective on the ancient game of hnefatafl. https://medium.com/war-is-boring/you-have-to-play-this-1-600-year-old-viking-war-game-cef088ae4e2d#.19yjjxtho
I’d like to give a shout out to my fellow traditional woodworkers up north, at the Unplugged Woodshop. They have lots of great info for traditional woodworkers on their web […]
A clinker built ship, measuring 23.8 m long and 5.1 m wide, was discovered in a burial mound at the Gokstad farm near Sandefjord in southern Norway in 1880. Dendrochronological […]
A broken plank of oak found at Toftanes in the Faroe Islands represents a surviving fragment of a game board hastily fashioned from an old serving plate. One side of the […]