I think that the "larpsy" stuff is a pet peeve of a lot of people.
Many of our merchants work hard to have more period wares and setups. Then we get someone selling nonSCA junk and it detracts so much.
There are "brickabrack" merchants who sell SCA appropriate things in a setting that is as close to period as they probably can do. Those people are useful but even those I feel shouldn't be given prime spots.
It's amazing looking at some of the tents and the like that merchants in period used to use. In England, the merchants tents were setup semipermanent in groups called "selds." These were like giant costco pavilions with several merchants having table space. Some of that still exists in London markets, which is really cool. And in the US we sometimes have "Farmers Markets" which are set up in a similar way. It would be nice if merchants could get together and do something similar (which I've seen happen at Estrella and Pennsic.)
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Date: 2007-01-19 09:31 pm (UTC)Many of our merchants work hard to have more period wares and setups. Then we get someone selling nonSCA junk and it detracts so much.
There are "brickabrack" merchants who sell SCA appropriate things in a setting that is as close to period as they probably can do. Those people are useful but even those I feel shouldn't be given prime spots.
It's amazing looking at some of the tents and the like that merchants in period used to use. In England, the merchants tents were setup semipermanent in groups called "selds." These were like giant costco pavilions with several merchants having table space. Some of that still exists in London markets, which is really cool. And in the US we sometimes have "Farmers Markets" which are set up in a similar way. It would be nice if merchants could get together and do something similar (which I've seen happen at Estrella and Pennsic.)