Classes 

The Bara Tape System & Fencing Jackets

Teacher: The Honourable Nicola de Coventre

This is a class that will first show you how to create patterns that will fit you using the bara tape system. I will then help you to pattern up a jacket that can be fashioned into armour for fencing or just be worn as late period jacket. 

Chausses Workshop

Teacher: Duke Gabriel de Beaumont

Sew along with Duke Gabriel and make yourself a pair of padded chausses to go under your leg armour. This is not a structured class, and Gabs will be "just sitting in a corner on a table making chausses".

Constanzia's Creative Consultation Corner

Teacher: Duquesa Constanzia Moralez y de Zamora

Having problems with your project? Want some adult supervision for a tricky step? Too many ideas and not enough time? Come along to Constanzia's Creative Consultation Corner and tap into the Baronial hive mind for some advice and assistance! 

Costuming Roundtable - Tips and Tricks

Teacher: Marquesa Iglesia Delamere

Roundtable discussion on the practical side of making garb and accessories. I will be bringing my high waisted Italian headwear to share a few tips. Contribution welcome, this will be a collaborative and sharing environment with the aim of walking away with a tip, trick, or idea that you didn’t have beforehand. Bring your questions and your tips!

The Executioner

Teacher: Master Henry Fox

Join Master Henry in tracing the lives, times and occupations of the Executioner, including various social issues involved. NOTE:  This class deals with concepts and images of an adult nature. Content in this class may be disturbing to some participants.

Historia Amoris: A History of Love

Teacher: Master Henry Fox

From the Ancient period to 1600, join Master Henry for an exploration of the concept of love and relationships through the ages. NOTE:  This class deals with concepts and images of an adult nature. Content in this class may not be appropriate for younger participants.

Improving Your SCA Tourney Introduction

Teacher: Count Alain Quartier

Introducing yourself at a tournament can be daunting, but it doesn't have to be! This class will give you some simple guidelines to use and help you construct or refine your tourney introduction so you're ready to go for the next big event.

Medieval Science Fiction

Teacher: Lady Yaroslava Solovei

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages that began with the Ancient Greeks. (Yes, really!) The mission: to explore the Moon (where forgotten things are found) and other strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations (Salad-wings, Flea-Archers and Dog-Acorns, to name a few); to boldly go where Medieval sci fi fanfic writers... have gone before?! Join Lady Yaroslava and explore the weird and often hilarious world of Ancient and Medieval Science Fiction. Yep, that was a thing!

Saccoccia: Italian Pockets

Teacher: Lady Batista de Bardi

What has it got in its pocketses? Learn to make a saccoccia (a tie on pocket) with Lady Batista - the perfect accessory for women of all classes in Renaissance Italy.

Safavids Are Like Onions 2

Teacher: The Honourable Lord Kamara Skleraina

So you've done the theory class on all the layers of Persian garb but now you want to make something and have no idea where to start? Fear not as we start on the practical series of classes where you will make each of the many layers and by the end, have a full outfit! For this, the first of the series, we will start on the bottom - under clothes. More specifically, the pants (shalvar) & undershirt (pirihan).

SCA Etiquette 101

Teacher: Count Alain Quartier

This will be a brief, casual chat about some of the unique social features the SCA has and will give you a basis to navigate bigger events as well as local ones. We'll cover things like: Who are The Crown and Heirs and what do they do? What other special people might you see at an event? Court - what is it, what happens there, and what do I need to do?

Scribal Fun!

Teacher: The Honourable Lord Kamara Skleraina

Join THLord Kamara and paint a Tudor rose and learn about interpreting historical images and scribal styles. There will also be space for anyone wishing to work on their own calligraphy and illumination projects.

Sugar Stuff

Teacher: Bethony Gaitskell

Bethony presents: the most comprehensive sugar class in Lochac! We'll cover the history of sugar, sugar-working techniques, and planning sugar sotelties, and then we'll have a go at making our own cast sugar confections!