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N-furniture-lnks – 11/9/05

 

Links to info on Norse furniture by Mistress Gunnvor Hallakarva. (Also known as the Viking Answer Lady).

 

NOTE: See also the files: furniture-msg, Med-Lighting-lnks, beds-msg, chairs-msg, flt-wick-lmps-art, chairs-msg, chests-msg, Norse-crafts-bib, Norse-food-art, woodworking-msg, wood-finishes-msg, Norse-msg, pst-Vik-Norse-msg.

 

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From: "C. L. Ward" <gunnora at vikinganswerlady.com>

Date: Wed Dec 10, 2003  1:36:10 PM US/Central

To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org

Subject: [Ansteorra] RE: period can be cheap

 

Mahee said:

> periodish furniture can be made for the

> price of 1 sheet of plywood, and the only

> real tool needed is a jig-saw. I often sit

> around designing how to make documentable

> furniture out of plywood, thus periodish.

>

> Early period table

> http://geocities.com/maithgen/wood/table/earlytable.html

>

> 1400's and forward tressle table

> http://geocities.com/maithgen/wood/ttable.html

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These are cool, Mahee.

 

There's also info available out there these days for Viking furniture items, and probably you can put most of this stuff together in a range of materials and for varying cost, though for many you'll want a couple other tools, I bet.

 

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for the Mastermyr Tool Chest. The Wareham Forge Website.

http://www.warehamforge.ca/mbxpl.jpg

 

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for the Oseberg Sea Chest. The Wareham Forge Website. This chest appears as catalog item #161 in Roesdahl and Wilson's From Viking to Crusader.

http://www.warehamforge.ca/obxpl.jpg

 

Markewitz, Darrell. Diagram and Plans for a Simple Bed from Oseberg. The Wareham Forge Website. The Oseberg Find included a number of beds. In addition to the best-known examples with the elaborate, carved head-posts, there were simpler frame beds as well, and the simpler type bed is being shown in these plans.

http://www.warehamforge.ca/obdpl.jpg

 

Oakley, Charles. A 10th Century Norwegian Bed: Being Based upon an Actual Model Removed from the 10th Century Gokstad Ship. Furniture Plans by Master Charles Oakley: The "Spiffing up Your Campsite" Series Webpage. Includes discussion and diagrams for reconstructing the four-post style beds from the Gokstad Ship Find.

http://www.medievalwood.org/charles/bedplan.html

 

Master Findlaech mac Alasdair. "Making a Tusk Tenon for Knockdown Furniture". Not a project, but a necessary skill for making certain types of Viking furniture.

http://www.his.com/~tom/sca/tusktenons.pdf

 

Lord Aelfric of Sarisberie. "A Viking Box Chair". Sacred Spaces: the Journal

of the Known World Architectural Guild No. 3 (October 1993). pp. 10-11. Based on the box chair in the Oseberg burial, includes plans.

http://www.currentmiddleages.org/tents/chair3vkbox.pdf

 

Master Gerekr fjarsjandi Rognvaldsson. "Norse Beds". Ravensgard Household Website. Brief discussion with pictures of the evidence for Viking Age beds.

http://www.ravensgard.org/gerekr/bed.html

 

Master Gerekr fjarsjandi Rognvaldsson. "Reproduction Norse Beds". Ravensgard Household Website. Discussion of reproductions and adaptations of Viking beds made by Master Gerekr, with plans/diagrams.

http://www.ravensgard.org/prdunham/Gbed.html

 

Wyley, Stephen Francis. A Replica Viking Chest, based on the MŠstermyr Find.

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikchest.html

 

Wyley, Stephen Francis. How to Make a Replica of a Viking Table Based on the

Sala Hytta Find.

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/viktable.html

 

Wyley, Stephen Francis. The 'Lund' Viking Stool: A Method of Replication.

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/Viking/vikstool.html

 

Wyley, Stephen Francis. The Voxtorp Church Chest: Plans and Pictures of a Replica.

http://www.geocities.com/svenskildbiter/Craft/voxtorp.html

 

::GUNNVOR::

 

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