This will be an ever-evolving list of useful links to blogs, reference sites, sellers, etc., mainly for me, but maybe you will find something useful for your next project or to satisfy your curiosity. Please message me with suggestions or if you find a dead link (I hate pages with tons of dead links). Note: I do not use Bitly or other URL shorteners because they hide the actual link, and as an Info Sec Engineer, I have seen plenty of abuse of this.

Blacksmithing

• Making nails: https://blacksmithsdepot.com/nail_heading

Coffee (my life blood)

• Mean Bean Coffee (try the Black Magic blend): https://meanbeancoffeeroasters.com/

Illumination/Scribe Arts

• Guilding: http://www.illuminatedpage.com/gilding.html
• Pigments: https://www.masterpigments.com/
• For all your painting and calligraphy needs: https://www.johnnealbooks.com/
• Visigoth Script: http://www.litteravisigothica.com/articulo/calligraphy-learning-to-write-in-visigothic-script-i
• English Hand Writing 1500-1700: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/index.html
• Jerry Tresser: Sadly, as we all must in the end, this gentleman passed away several years ago. He made the closest thing to period gesso. I may include my own investigation into making his gesso…one of these days. His products are no longer available.
• Natural Ink: https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/how-to-make-ink-foragers-guide-to-natural-inkmaking?fbclid=IwAR137lb9VfYD5osPiEQ1jEOVziIiXbImy3UVZ_LBFD8j7I-OQu0X3RIWE2s
• Gouache (I am slowly switching my paints to this company): https://holbeinartistmaterials.com/gouache/

Jewelry

• Birka Type 8 Chain: https://medievalhomecompanion.com/2018/04/30/birka-type-8-chain/

Locks

• Viking Locks: https://www.instructables.com/Viking-Era-800-1050-Padlock/

Medieval Lighting

• Lantern: http://www.oocities.org/firespiter/lantern/lantern.htm
• A history: https://www.bespokelights.co.uk/lighting-through-the-ages-i37

Metalworking

• Viking Needle Case: https://ragnvaeig.dreamwidth.org/410058.html
• Chain making: https://wire-wrap-tutorials.com/chain-making-tutorial/

Miscellaneous

• All Thing Birka Sweden: https://earlysweden.wordpress.com/

Paper Cutting (Canivet)

• https://www.casacenina.com/blog/canivet-the-ancient-paper-art.html
• Breif history of paper cutting: https://www.xacto.com/blog?cid=history-paper-cutting
• German paper cutting: https://quietvalley.org/scherenschnitte-the-history-of-german-paper-cutting-folk-art/
• Lace Book of Marie de’ Medic: https://art.thewalters.org/object/W.93/
• https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/caring-for-our-collections/neither-printed-painted-nor-drawn
• Chinese paper cutting: https://zofiamorris.weebly.com/china.html
• Jewish paper cutting: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/jewish-papercutting/
• Earliest example of medieval paper cutting: https://journal.thewalters.org/volume/76/essay/a-cut-above-the-rest-unraveling-the-mystery-of-the-walters-lace-manuscript/

Swords

• Medieval sword reproductions: https://www.darksword-armory.com/medieval-weapons/medieval-swords/
• Medieval sword reproductions: https://todsworkshop.com/collections/cutler/medieval-swords/

PTSD and Depression

• Ketamine PTSD Treatment (feel free to ask me questions): https://psychiatry.uams.edu/clinical-care/interventional-psychiatry/ketamine-infusions/

Woodworking

• Norwegian Tine Boxes: https://www.lumberjocks.com/projects/46441