" What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are printed lots of funny ...

If this sometimes feels like a woodworking blog, I apologize. It's not intended that way; it's just that so much of the technology ...

Bonus Extras! People who follow along on the project's Facebook page get timely updates, additional progress photos, research trips, d...

When I started posting about knitting in the renaissance, my Facebook walls lit up with people sharing resources and images. I love knitters...

I have a pile of oak staves waiting to be turned into something useful, a razor-sharp draw knife in my hand and a far away look in my...

Just before Christmas, I received an email back the Museum of London in response to an enquiry I sent them about a list of 111 crafts that e...

Beard = Serious Scholar I've been silent for awhile as I do important things like acquire hard-to-find tools, rare books, and grow a...

Why am I doing this?  I ponder that a lot. And there are a lot of reasons why I decided to do this and why I'm doing it exactly the way ...

My friend Jon reminded me the other day of this effort to build a castle in France using artisans pursuing only the period techniques circa ...

This is a work in progress, with the beginnings of details and possible projects being sketched out along with critical resources for compl...

Research is a drug for me. Mostly because it means acquiring more books and shoehorning them into the groaning shelves of my home library...