We will discuss options and alternatives for ways of making medieval objects. Furniture, illumination, armouring, embroidery, making garb, whatever. This is where most people head off in the wrong direction. Documentation as Obituary Many people often write their documentation as an obituary. This seems to be the standard SCA method.
People get an idea.
This method sucks and is a really lousy way of doing documentation. All the writing is done only after the project is dead, and it winds up being pretty cursory. If anything is found that describes a better way things could have been done, the focus often becomes glossing over the 'error' and ignoring it, rather than using it and learning from it. Additionally, projects rarely benefit from the effort put into research and documentation, and the documentation rarely gives an objective view of the project. Documentation as a Project Diary A better method of project creation is to decide upon a project and then find out how such things were done in the Middle Ages.