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	<description>Exploring jewellery techniques from the early middle ages…</description>
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		<title>Sale Jewellery for Empire LRP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The items on this page have been rescued on their way to the refiners furnace, and judged by me to be ideal jewellery for live roleplay. Of course, anyone is welcome to buy &#8211; please email me at admin@primitivemethod.org if you are interested. Postage and packaging is included for any UK purchaser, but a small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wire Making in the Staffordshire Hoard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently had an article put on the Staffordhsire Hoard website, about my work with the tiny wires produced by the Anglo-Saxons. I&#8217;ve covered some of their methods on this blog before, but I&#8217;ve moved on a long way over the last couple of years, and this articles acts as an introduction to the subject; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Victoria Lansford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This interview originally appeared in Benchpeg, a free weekly PDF newsletter for the UK jewellery trade. You can subscribe at http://benchpeg.com. It should have appeared on the blog not long after, but got lost in the draft folder last year! For over twenty years, Victoria has worked with metal, focusing on archaic methods like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primitive Tech &#8211; Charcloth and Tannin Tea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First task was starting a fire. No simple task when everything is soggy. I&#8217;m getting better at this &#8211; I used an old scrap of linen this time. Obviously, what I need is appropriate, dry kindling, but despite it being a dry winter, the moment I start using the site, it&#8217;s been wet. This is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primitive Tech &#8211; Clay, Charcoal and Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been at the site a couple of times since my last post, and while it&#8217;s by no means a workshop yet, things are starting to take shape. The first step was utilising some containers that are already onsite. There are two types of barrel &#8211; blue type-2 plastic, and metal oil drums. The former [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Primitive Tech @ Wing Drumble Woodland</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started this blog, one of the things at the top of my list was building a primitive workshop at home. I have a small outbuilding which would suit, but it somehow never happened; I didn&#8217;t get it done that first summer, and then I suddenly had a baby to look after (OK, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archive: The original Primitive Method title page</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 23:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much happened in the first 18 months of the Primitive Method project, and I thought it was time to write a new intro to the blog. For sentimental reasons, I&#8217;m keeping the original version on record, which you can read below. The aim of Primitive Method is to provide a framework for my study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review: Treasures of Heaven &#8211; Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 09:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This review was commissioned by the British Museum. An edited version was used on their blog; this is the full version. When someone talks about relics, the first thing we all think about is religion. In the modern world, where atheism and agnosticism is rife, you might ask how a collection of hair and bones [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Stephen M Goldsmith FIPG</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/primitive/2011/06/05/an-interview-with-stephen-m-goldsmith-fipg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This interview originally appeared in Benchpeg, a free weekly PDF newsletter. You can subscribe at http://benchpeg.com. Of all the jewellery and silversmithing trades, polishing is perhaps the most misunderstood, despite being the only trade that is relevant to every item of jewellery. Hours of work by an artisan can be thrown away by bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lead Codices from Jordan: Some notes on manufacture</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/primitive/2011/04/05/lead-codices-from-jordan-some-notes-on-manufacture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of weeks, a story has emerged about some lead books found in Jordan, which are allegedly ancient. If you want to read critiques of the news coverage, I recommend you to look at these articles on Rogueclassicism and History Hunters International. I must admit that I retweeted the BBC&#8217;s news story. [...]]]></description>
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