Persia-msg - 7/22/12 History and culture of period Persia. NOTE: See also the files: fd-Persia-msg, Middle-East-msg, Islamic-bib, Turkey-msg, fd-Mid-East-msg, ME-revel-fds-art, za-atar-msg. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 20:10:37 -0500 From: rmhowe To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu Subject: Re: Embroidery motif question > Does anyone know a good scholar of 18th century embroidery? Middle > Eastern embroidery? Got a book in ex Design Library, NC state U. Suggest you review The Traditional Crafts of Persia Their Development, Technology, and Influence on Eastern and Western Civilizations, by Hans E. Wulff MIT Press, Massachusetts Instutute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass an London England, 1966 LoC # 66-22462 Covers making gold threads among a host of other techniques. Tremendous amount of technology covered, not always to my satisfaction though. Leaves you wanting to see the other books referenced, some in German. Gives a whole lot of Farsi (Persian) terms for everything. Textiles, a little leather, cloth soled shoes, metals, engineering, etc are covered. Magnus - supper's getting cold now. Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 23:10:20 -0400 From: Sam Wallace To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org Subject: [Sca-cooks] 15th Century Travelogues I found this set of travelogues while digging through Google Books. They are of a pair of Italians who ventured to Persia, Poland, Russia and other regions. There is some interesting mention of cuisine and culinary customs, but not as many details as might be desired. It is worth digging around in them as these areas did not produce many culinary works until well after 1600. Travels to Tana and Persia http://books.google.com/books?id=RxgRAQAAIAAJ Guillaume Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:52:11 -0400 From: Sam Wallace To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org Subject: [Sca-cooks] Russian and Persian Resources Here are a couple of resources I found concerning Russia and Persia: Early voyages and travels to Russia and Persia http://books.google.com/books?id=nHEMAAAAIAAJ http://books.google.com/books?id=cAA7AAAAIAAJ Of the Russe Common Wealth http://books.google.com/books?id=XDs8AAAAcAAJ Guillaume Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:55:18 -0400 From: Johnna Holloway To: Cooks within the SCA Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Russian and Persian Resources Also the full text of the Russia at the close of the sixteenth century, By Giles Fletcher, Sir Jerome Horsey, Jerome Horsey (sir.) catalogued as: Russia at the close of the sixteenth century: comprising, the treatise "Of the Russe common wealth," by Giles Fletcher : and the Travels of Sir Jerome Horsey, now for the first time printed entire from his own manuscript. London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1856. is available. The plain text edition may be easier for people to work from. 19th century Hakluyt Society publications can be searched in Google Books fairly easily. Use the Advanced Search feature and enter Hakluyt Society under publishers. Once the list for 130,000 plus titles pops up, click on full view in the left column and the list will shorten to 87,000. Then you can enter more search parameters to narrow the list to countries or by time. Johnna Edited by Mark S. Harris Persia-msg 3 of 3