SCA Questions ('cause I won't call it a meme)

[mikekn]

SCA Questions from attack_laurel by way of chargirlgenius:
1. What is your SCA name? (You don't have to write the full name, just your first name if you want.)
Michel Wolffauer - both parts can be dated to 1510 in Germany.

2. What is your home kingdom?
East Kingdom

3. Have you ever lived in another kingdom? If so, where?
Nope!

4. Do you remember your first SCA event? When/what was it?
Vaguely. It was some time around 1989-1990. It was in southeast PA or southern NJ. I seem to recall something at Beaver College and a Crown Tourney somewhere, but I don't recall which was first or if they were in fact the same event. (binsteaj you were there - help!)
Wish that historian would get the event list on-line so I could look these up.

5. Do you have any awards? (You don't have to list them if you don't want)
Yes, a few.

6. Do you list them after your name in communications like e-mail?
Never. I will sometimes list an office or a role I have to provide context to my post/message.

7. Do you have a device?
Yes. Argent, a wolf rampant per fess gules and sable. (See icon).

8. Do you use it? On what?
Yep - I have an LJ icon with it for SCA related posts, and when I remember to bring it I usually put up a banner with it wherever I set up.

9. Are you on all the kingdom/society lists available to you, or do you avoid them?
I'm on most all of them (and then some) except that I never got into following rec.org.sca.

10. Do you keep your Pennsic/Estrella/Gulf Wars/etc. site tokens?
Yes - in a drawer currently.

11. Do you keep the favours you've been given by royalty/friends/Sos, etc.? Do You wear them all?
Yes - same drawer. I will wear a new favor for a few months, but then I tend to put it away.

12. Do you call your friends by their SCA names even when you're not at an event?
Some of them. Depends which name of theirs sticks best in my head.

13. Do you go out to dinner in garb after an event?
Not very often. I'm more likely to eat feast, or get changed before going out to eat.

14. Do you have all kinds of garb, or do you generally stick to one period?
I have mostly generic garb, but I wouldn't mind moving towards a single period. Just never put in the time to figure out what I need to do.

15. How many interests do you have within the SCA? What's your favourite?
Oh so many - games, brewing, archery, fencing, heraldry. I'd have to say that games are my favorite.

16. Do you have an SCA-oriented web site (to show off projects, keep dress diaries, etc.)?
Nope, not really.

17. Do you maintain a hairstyle that is more period style than modern? How about any other part of your appearance?
Heh. No, I don't think so.

18. Do you tell "No $###, there I was" stories? (Admit it.)
I do, but I usually have to be reminded about them somehow - I can't just bring them to mind.

19. Authenticity is Fun. Yes or no?
Yes. Or more accurately, it can be Fun - all depends on how you go about it and the environment in which you pursue it (supportive or not).

20. Is there one modern thing at events that really bugs you?
My shoes. Like my garb, I've not gotten around to figuring out what I need to do to get/have proper shoes.

Bonus Question! 21. Everyone has a shameful garb/accessory mistake hidden somewhere in their past. What's yours? (We're all friends here, we promise not to laugh. Much.)
Nope! No hidden mistakes - all mine are out in the open where everyone can see them.

Comments

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Now I want to research garb from 1510 Germany (or that a German living elsewhere might wear, when did the Landsknechts get to Spain?). It's more fun than content inventory of a poorly organized web site.

[mikekn]

Let me know what you find :)

Landsknechts are part of my problem - every time I try looking for something they are all I find. Great if you want to be a Landsknecht (and nothing wrong with that, faerydusted1 ;) ), but I'm more interested in the urban merchant class.

I took 1510 as my persona "birthdate", so I'd like to find out what someone would wear in 1540 Germany.

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

Hopefully when I run across mid-16th Century German stuff I'll remember you're the person who asked about it :) It's outside my normal sphere of research, but that doesn't mean I won't find something somewhere. And it looks like it's bound to be a tricky period to research what with the reformation and the holy roman empire and all.

[glenmarshall.livejournal.com]

Now, there's one thing that's almost worth digressing into: bad heraldry.

Among the awful, but still SCA-legal, things I've seen is this device: Gyronny or and vert, a Magen David counterchanged.

[mikekn]

Ugh - that one hurts just to try and imagine it.

[femkederoas.livejournal.com]

Hope you don't mind, I followed a link from the Attack Laurel here. ;-) And I'm feeling like the url fairy...

Intro to German 16th century costume:
http://www.curiousfrau.com/Articles/intro_costuming.htm

And shoes:
http://www.curiousfrau.com/Art_Research/shoes.htm

Plus some patterns, though they'll take a little work to fit:
http://www.eredsul.org/earl_mike/FlamePeace/AOPSeptBatch/wukpatterns.htm

Beyond that, try searching the Web Gallery of Art for portraits by Cranach, Durer, and Holbein.

And have a pleasant evening!

[mikekn]

Thanks!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Hi,
I'm the site owner of the Curious Frau and was just checking up on my site logs and ran across your LJ entry so I thought I'd drop by and say Hi.

OK, that out of the way... 1540's German clothing where? Because there can be quite a variation in styles from one part to another, but that's more with the men than the women.

[mikekn]

Howdy and welcome!

The SCA persona I'm working on is living in Augsburg, probably working for the Fugger family or doing something in the merchant class. The main idea at this point is that he is a city dweller, and not a soldier.

Any pointers you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, you've chosen a very easy place and time to research!

Have you read the Fugger Newsletters?

Mathias Schwarz worked for Jakob Fugger in Augsburg and he kept a pictoral account of his outfit for every year, starting in the 1510's and going through the 1540'. They are on Bildindex, here's the guide I wrote to how to use it, as well as the navigation path to Das Schwarzsche Trachtenbuch which is the name of his pictoral costume book. Each image has the month and year that he had the garment made.

http://www.curiousfrau.com/Art_Research/bildindex.htm

This should give you a good place to get started, feel free to ask questions if you need help using Bildindex.

[mikekn]

Score! Thank you!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. Today I ran across a whole bunch of pics of Matthais as kid, and a recently published autobiography of his, in French unfortunatly, but it promises good color pictures by the looks of the cover. My entry on the kid links is here
http://mmcnealy.livejournal.com/283510.html

And this is the info on the book

Un banquier mis à nu : Autobiographie de Matthäus Schwarz, bourgeois d'Ausbourg (Paperback)
by Philippe Braunstein
http://www.amazon.com/banquier-mis-Autobiographie-bourgeois-dAusbourg/dp/2070568571/