The Rampant Strawberry Inn

Playing card deck English Tudor Playing Cards                      A&S Fair A.S. 50 (2016)                              Marilyn Holt                            Mwynwen Ysginidd called Strawberry History Playing cards’ existence can be tracked more by the laws around and shipping manifests of them than surviving cards. There are laws banning them within other temperance laws, as well as the taxing on imported and exported cards. Ship manifests are a way we can see the common use and trading of playing cards. From the late 1200’s on, we start to see playing laws popping up on the books in many countries. It is believed that playing cards originated around 1000 A.D. in China. They were narrow slips of paper, essentially dominoes with dots in their 36 combinations possible with the throw of two dice. Paper was the original material for dominoes; wood and ivory came later. Dominoes cards are still known, as is another Chinese type, money cards, called that because of

T-Totum, or teetotum Wooden Top -Teetotum                                                                      A&S Fair A.S. 50 (2016) Marilyn Holt                                                                  Mwynwen Ysginidd called Strawberry What: Is it? A Wooden top, a T-Totum. Why would it have been made, what use is it?             A teetotum is a top that has been squared. They were used by children and adults for games of chance for entertainment and gambling. It has gone through other names depending on region. The Latin word totum means all and is represented on English tops with the letter T, hence the name T-Totum. Modernly written teetotum. Why am I choosing to make it? My Persona is an ale wife who runs a brewpub. Being the fiercely proud Welsh woman, as well a fine and good Godly woman, she felt it was blasphemous to use Latin (God’s language) on the teetotum, and so in her house the teetotum was carved with Welsh.   And as such, this

Ludus duodecim scriptorum , or XII scripta, was a board game popular during the time of the Roman Empire. It was played anywhere that Rome  controlled. Most boards found are stone. It was so popular that most of the surviving game boards found around cities were professionally carved. iI seems like there were plenty of public boards, Like the chess boards in city park today. It is believed that folks carried playing pieces and dice with them.  The game pieces were called  pessoi,  the name of another game; much in the way a checker piece derives its name from the game Pessoi was also a game. Pessoi as a proper noun implies a little round pebbles or pottery sherds.  Hand stamped board on linen with Flame worked glass pessoi and Pyorgphyed Wooded Dices the I make and sell email me for prices. I also Print these on cotton and silk to fit your budget. Much lighter then a stone boad wouldn't you say.  Eventually the Boards changed and became a  worded board with tongue in cheek j

Gluckshaus (House of Fortune) This is a photograph of my hand stamped boards they are available for sale they email me for prices I have on cotton or linen or silk Gluckshaus  Is a very simple game there are only 2 known surviving boards from before the 17 century. There are a few theories one from Lady Heather Hall (Heather Rocchi) A Master playing card researcher and reconstruction artist, is that the game was played with just playing cards. This is backed by the concept that some boards from Germany have the Number 10 as a flag bearer, a boar for the number 2, a king or Ober for the 12. this would play into most of the rules of the game.   How to play Gluckshaus All persons wanting to play anti into the 7, then take turns rolling 2, 6 sided dice. On their turn they roll if the number on the board that they roll is empty they play a coin or token on that square if there is something on that square then they take it. EXCEPT for the 3 to 4 special places, the 7, the 2,

                                        Nodde Tudor Card Game                                                          A&S Fair A.S. 50 (2016) Mwynwen Ysginidd called Strawberry Nodde; a card game of strategy and luck, played during Tudor times by 2 to 4 players.          If one more person walks up to me while I am playing Cribbage with my lord and tells me it isn’t period, I am going to scream. I know that it is just out of period and based on a period game. [ Cribbage   was invented in the early 1600s by Sir John Suckling, an English courtier, poet, gamester and gambler. He was a lousy gambler and wanted an upper hand against others. He died broke. Not that I am teaching the history of Cribbage here, the believed exact date of its creation is the year of 1606. Cribbage of any form is 17 th century; there is no evidence for its existence prior to the 1600's.] Then I ask if you hand stitched your garb as a comparison to them telling me about what is a