The guild put together a group display for the 2024 Kingdom Arts & Sciences/Tir-y-Don Baronial Investiture. For more information on display components, please see the list below!
Foraged dyestuffs
- Dyeing with mushrooms by Forester Eirik Gralókkr
- Dyeing with lichen (Usnea) and walnut hulls by Forester Elias de Birton
- Walnut hull ink (and foraged walnut hulls) by Forester Isobel of Carnewyth
- Dyeing with purple dead nettle and red onion by Forester Isobel of Carnewyth
- Hood with naturally-dyed linen lining by Forester Isobel of Carnewyth
Cordage making
- Rose of Sharon bast cordage by Forester Eirik Gralókkr
- Tulip poplar bast cordage by Forester Elias de Birton
Fire making
- Videos and photos of fire making with flint and steel
- Fatwood harvested by Forester Eirik Gralókkr
- “Fatwood” (or lighter pine, or pitch pine) is the hard, decay-resistant heartwood of pine (n the southern U.S., typically longleaf pine Pinus palustris) that is left behind after the outer layers of sapwood have decomposed. Because of its high concentration of flammable resins, which are also why it resists rot, it will sustain a flame for several minutes and burns hot enough to start a larger stack of regular kindling. Pitch pine in larger pieces, particularly those with knots, also was used throughout history for torches. Such torches produce a good amount of light but also a lot of sooty smoke. Good quality fatwood is reddish orange in color and has a strong pine resin smell.
- Tinder materials (birch and red cedar bark) and quartz found by Forester Elias de Birton
- Research on period fire making by Forester Elias de Birton
Harvesting and pit-firing wild clay
- Harvesting wild clay and pit-fired statuettes by Forester Elias de Birton
- Making a Birka-inspired oil lamp by Forester Elias de Birton
Items inspired by Chaucer’s Yeoman Forester
- An interpretation of a 14th/15th century English archer’s bracer by Forester Elias de Birton
- A pewter pilgrim’s badge depicting Saint Cristopher by Forester Elias de Birton
Newsletters (Volumes 1 and 2)
The purpose and mission of the Kingdom of Atlantia Royal Forestry Guild is to research, recreate, demonstrate, and teach medieval forestry, outdoor living, and primitive skills. We are enthusiastically dedicated to no trace camping, protecting the green spaces, self-reliance, woodcraft, campcraft, bushcraft, overland travel, inland water travel, outdoor cooking, survival, primitive skills, and historical tools, methods, equipment and techniques for living, camping, traveling and cooking, all in period fashion.
As a guild within the SCA, membership is open to all interested persons who reside in the Kingdom of Atlantia. If you like to roast marshmallows on a fire and think camping is fun, you qualify to be a forester. If you are a primitive skills enthusiast who has handmade your gear using period techniques, you qualify to be a forester. If you are a history buff who likes to walk in the woods and wants to have a forester persona, you qualify to be a forester. As long as you are committed to protecting the green spaces and interested in outdoor skills, there is a place for you here!
You do not need to change your persona to become a forester. We have 1st century Celts, 4th century Germans, 9th century Danes and Russians, and 11th-14th century English foresters. We will help you learn forestry skills appropriate for your persona. There is a place in the guild for all types of personas wishing to practice outdoor skills and living!