And some of my husband's thoughts...
A cart laden with tourists leaves the Marriott and goes direct to the wharf where a small ship laden with supplies, including wool, copper, silver, gold, exotic woods... has just arrived. From there it proceeds up the hill and into the village.
An enormous, ornate hall houses an interactive dinner theatre.
We also see a large collection of wooden structures where carpenters build barrels, wheels, lances, longbows, arrows... An instructer is aiming his longbow at leather and glue targets. Wares from each shop are for sale; apprentices learn their individual trades..
The next group of shops perform work on copper. Bowls, utensils, hardware; next is a craftsman who makes a long trumpet on a mandrel from a single block of copper. His grandfather's grandfather's dad taught him, and so on. A trumpet can take 2 to 3 weeks to make. Next to him is a craftsman who hammers thin sheets of copper which he wraps around a mandrel and over fire hammers and welds succesive sheets to make a similar trumpet. The final layer may have silver inlay with hooks for a banner and be completed in 2 days; enlightenment, he says. The two craftsmen like to bicker.
Blacksmith shops make rings that go around a wheel or barrel. Armor, chainmail, mandrels...
As we progress up the street, the quality of the buildings is changing from wood to stone (local quarried limestone?) or brick. Perhaps higher ceilings in the high rent district.
Exotic woods are carved into handsome furniture/furnishings, some gilded. A clock tower is driven by the newly discovered pendulum whose enormous swinging arc through two stories guarantees accuracy to within 10-15 seconds per day.
The other side of the street has tanners ,weavers and tailors. How exciting, the idea of a portable clock that a person can carry with them! Lenses are created to enhance vision and explore the inner and outer cosmos. Somewhere I smell the brewing of beer.
The apprentices come from all over the world and receive reduced rates from the Marriott for their contracted extended stays. They may learn anything from making and shooting longbows to hammering gold into thin foil that will cover that precious keepsake.
A faculty of artisans/teachers will flock to this new city, which by the way, bears no resemblance to a bass pro shop.
An enormous, ornate hall houses an interactive dinner theatre.
We also see a large collection of wooden structures where carpenters build barrels, wheels, lances, longbows, arrows... An instructer is aiming his longbow at leather and glue targets. Wares from each shop are for sale; apprentices learn their individual trades..
The next group of shops perform work on copper. Bowls, utensils, hardware; next is a craftsman who makes a long trumpet on a mandrel from a single block of copper. His grandfather's grandfather's dad taught him, and so on. A trumpet can take 2 to 3 weeks to make. Next to him is a craftsman who hammers thin sheets of copper which he wraps around a mandrel and over fire hammers and welds succesive sheets to make a similar trumpet. The final layer may have silver inlay with hooks for a banner and be completed in 2 days; enlightenment, he says. The two craftsmen like to bicker.
Blacksmith shops make rings that go around a wheel or barrel. Armor, chainmail, mandrels...
As we progress up the street, the quality of the buildings is changing from wood to stone (local quarried limestone?) or brick. Perhaps higher ceilings in the high rent district.
Exotic woods are carved into handsome furniture/furnishings, some gilded. A clock tower is driven by the newly discovered pendulum whose enormous swinging arc through two stories guarantees accuracy to within 10-15 seconds per day.
The other side of the street has tanners ,weavers and tailors. How exciting, the idea of a portable clock that a person can carry with them! Lenses are created to enhance vision and explore the inner and outer cosmos. Somewhere I smell the brewing of beer.
The apprentices come from all over the world and receive reduced rates from the Marriott for their contracted extended stays. They may learn anything from making and shooting longbows to hammering gold into thin foil that will cover that precious keepsake.
A faculty of artisans/teachers will flock to this new city, which by the way, bears no resemblance to a bass pro shop.
posted by Anna at 8:58 AM
2 Comments:
This sounds like a really interesting place, worth visiting, but where is it?
Reference the previous post ~ it's my husband's vision of the Shoals according to a concept introduced by Susann Elsass. Florence, Alabama is known as the Renaissance City and is currently the home of the Alabama Renaissance Faire, which happens in late October each year. Some of us are kicking around some ideas about expanding that legacy to a Renaissance Village.
It does sound cool, huh? ;)
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