Hi all! You can check the subtitles and description for much more detail. Thanks for watching, and many thanks to Herknungr for the music 'Нови Циклус'! If you like what I do and want to support me further, consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/gesithasgewissa/
This!! As an former Anglo Saxon recreationist there is a lot to learn from our ancestors and other cultures’ ancestors. Very fine work! I was not as in depth as you work here for various reason. A bit jealous really. Love your channel. Just found it and subscribed.
Morgan Donner has a project building at her house where she and her husband made a medieval bed. She covers how she made the reed mats for it and shows her resaech. ruclips.net/video/64yNsPxVEnc/видео.htmlsi=PaX1Ziq-puaApE_-
This is essentially the same type of bed my great grandparents described as common in Southern Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The main difference was that the mattress my great grandparents slept on would’ve been stuffed with feathers or down, but the wooden box with the tightened strings was essentially unchanged over a thousand years later.
Yes , my grandparents still had rope in England in the 1950s with a stuffed ‘modern’ mattress . They later had a bed with sprung/woven metal mesh instead of the rope .
I have disassembled and reassembled one of those beds as a furniture mover in southern Appalachia. It was a unique experience and I now appreciate it even more.
@@bradchambers5886 That’s really cool! I’ve seen them in old cabins at some point (probably Cades Cove or the like), but I never saw one outside of a museum setting.
The origin of the phrase "sleep tight". Meaning, the rope stays tight and the mattress doesn't sag while you're sleeping, so you get a good night's sleep.
@@grass-touchedThat's the ither thing to wish someone for a good night's sleep. 1: sleep tight (the cords are tight and you're held above the floor) and 2: Hope the parasites (bed bugs) don't bite you.
My mother told me how as a child they would visit her grandparents. The beds had straw mattresses and they would wriggle themselves hollows in the straw to snuggle into to stay extra warm in the unheated bedroom.
I was having a bit of anxiety and difficulty falling asleep last night, so I put on RUclips as I was laying in bed and looked for something tranquil to watch. This popped up in my recommended, and it was so fascinating and so relaxing, I ended up watching more of your videos of you building the pit house. I dozed off partway through the third video, and finished catching up on your pit house series today. Great content! I love how you don't pad your videos with anything unrelated to the content at hand, and instead just show us what we're here to see. I can't even begin to tell you how much that's appreciated in the current climate of content creation on the internet. Keep up the great work!
Many years ago, I spent the night in a sort of Portuguese “Agriturismo” B&B . This was found for us by the local policeman, as tourists weren’t supposed to be left to Rome about the countryside at night !(we had our car, but had not been able to find a room anywhere.) The bed although rather noisy and rustling, was very comfortable. It was almost identical to the one shown, though the “ mattress” was a big bag stuffed with corn stalks. I was awoken in the morning by the cockerel roosting on the rafters above the end of the bed! I might add that the room, and the bed, in spite of the cock, were both spotless.
Well done. Modern film makers often portray our ancestors sleeping on the floor with just a bit of straw just like or even with farm animals . However contemporary illustrations show them sleeping in beds looking surprisingly modern with pillows sheets and blankets
Thank you. Yes, there are so many misconceptions about the Medieval period; that people lived in poor conditions with crude skills and equipment. But this was very rarely the case, the Medieval period was filled with art, highly developed skills and masterly crafted artefacts.
@@gesithasgewissa That and the hair style. Viking men commonly wore an 'updo' that consisted of their hair pulled up into a 'knot.' hence the name. I didnt realize you did it just by chance XD (Forensic ondontology with a weird fascination for skin and hair so while people assume all vikings wore was braids, nope.)
Do you think they argued over who had the best pocket rock. "Limestone rocks are just overpriced, all you're paying for is the looks, a sandstone rock will work just as well"
Good job. This gives us a good idea of what it meant for a large part of the European population to go from life in Roman villas, with aqueducts, sewers, stone houses and roads, back to wooden and straw huts. A setback of a thousand years in just a couple of generations.
Very true, although it wasn't necessarily a regression in terms of cultural knowledge or technologies, but perhaps largely due to the huge drop in population, meaning that most of these structures were not worth maintaining - particularly the aqueducts, sewers and roads! Stone buildings did continue in the form of churches.
The obvious downside being the amount of work it took to make these things as well as the fact they have to be constantly repaired. They definitely got their exercise in that time.
Well researched and evidenced, with no compromise to historical accuracy. Very impressive. I love following your insights into the everyday life of our ancestors.
very nice! you could also try soaking the string (or rope for that matter) and work it wet. when it dries it'll shrink slightly and be tight as a drum.
Rope beds were quite common here in the U.S. into the 20th century, but we used much thicker ropes. They were tightened by using a "Rope wrench" which slipped behind the holding knot. You pried the knot with the wrench to tension the rope, then temporarily stuck a tapered peg into the the hole where the knot is. This held the tension so you could loosen the knot and move it closer to the bed frame. The wrench was usually hung either on the bed frame itself or on the wall nearby.
@@ahsansariyadi29 Are you asking me? I have done a lot of carpentry before, and spent a year working as a shipwright for the Sutton Hoo Ship's company, using only hand tools ☺
Great job on the bed and the video. Welcome to the mind boggling and aggravating world of continuous rope stretch. As someone that has been sleeping on a 1820 built rope bed for 20 plus years I can tell you. Rope that you are sleeping on has an physics defying ability to never finish stretching. All rope beds aspire to be hammocks. Personally, after several years I surrendered and cut a piece of 3/4 plywood to lay over the ropes ( lol haven’t had to use my rope wrench since ). Thanks again for your work producing these beautiful videos.
I just finished My own bed like this, but i made it quite wide For experiment. I Dont know what kind of Roper i should buy as The rope i bought seem to.just stretch And not settle. Perhapse 150cm winde bed is simply too wide? Or is My rope just too thin or low quality? @@gesithasgewissa
@@anttitheinternetguy3213 I think there are examples of medieval rope beds wide enough for two people. Perhaps try thicker rope, over 1/2 an inch thickness?
Every war and plague made us lose even greater amounts of ancestral knowledge, sadly. So much knowledge was lost in the first world war, so many practitioners of ancient crafts. Much of that knowledge we can't recover, but at least there are people trying to revive these old skills.
Yet more proof that our ancestors were a lot smarter and resourceful than what we originally thought. Thanks for the amazing work you do, friend; these little snapshots in history will be invaluable teaching tools for the future.
I imagine you have a lot more free time to figure this out when your only main job is to sow seeds in spring and havest them in Autumn. That's two whole seasons where there isn't much to do. And aside from tax, "You reap what you sow." One thing we forget is how much free time our ancestors had, which can be seen by how many social events were marked with celebration and festivities. It's only after industralization, we have this... Grinding lifestyle of spending over half of our waking hours working sowing seeds we will never reap, with only 2 rest days in a week, and then only a few weeks off throughout the year.
My grandfather had similar bed made who knows when up until his death in 1986. His bed had mattress bag made from old potato or rye seeds bags and it was filled with dried grass. Grass was changed every so often. I slept in that bed when I was little and I still remember smell of that grass.
I just love the part at the end where you’re sitting on your new bed by the fire and sewing. ❤ To me the most wonderful feeling is just working on something small with someone else nearby working on something too, relaxed and warm and comfy. 😊
This way of building houses should be taught in schools because it is complex and fascinating and useful. I would have loved to learn to be able to build this type of dwelling. You are an artist. Thank you ❤.
I just had a terrible vision of the blanket scorching! Your work is stunning and so interesting. I love working with wood, natural materials but you have genuinely shown what is possible.@@gesithasgewissa
En tant qu'Inconditionnelle du Moyen Âge et de Fidelma de Cashel, qui sillonnent son Irlande, la Grande Bretagne et L'Europe du VIIéme siècle pour confondre les assassins, je serai encore plus immergée dans ces romans à l'avenir grâce à vos vidéos et je pourrai imaginer les maisons, les lits, pour l'instant, dans lesquels elle est amenée à dormir lors de ses voyages. Vous voir mesurer en pouces m'a régalée. J'avais vu utiliser des coudées en visitant le Château de Guédelon (France, château mediéval construit avec les moyens de l' Époque) , mais ces petits nœuds m'ont amusée. Le lit est impressionnant, mais ça doit s'enfoncer 😂.. J'adore ce voyage dans le temps. Je m'abonne et attend la suite de votre aménagement intérieur.. Merci. ❤
This video got me to sub. My young daughter and I watched it to help get her to sleep. Not in a bad way of course. We talked about the techniques you used and tried to guess what each step would lend to the next. 12 minute later she's ready to start going to sleep. Good quality, clean editing, interesting subject - nicely done. I'd love to watch you just develop the pit house and immediately surrounding land as it would have been done. I'd also be fine with whatever shortcut you might find acceptable given time and manpower constraints. But that's just me :)
I'm glad both you and your daughter enjoyed the video! I'm definitely planning to keep improving the house and working on the land, hedging, coppicing, farming and so on.
This looks very comfortable. Maybe even more so than some old mattresses. It sure must be nice to be able to sleep on something you made yourself, it must be satisfying.
I am loving this project of yours and how it is coming together. I love that you are not letting the winter weather stop you from building or crafting, either outdoors or indoors. As a medieval reenactor, I greatly enjoy videos such as yours that bring our history to life! Thank you!
Allright ! Was a good choice to watch it with time , i realy enjoyed it my friend. As always thanks for your work , its amazing that your work is apprecciated by a huge audience now. I‘m stil looking around for my own propperty , when i have mine i will try to follow your advice here. I like the rustical style of the bed. May i ask you , where do you get all the filling material ? You also used it on the roof as well. Does it grow around you place , or do you buy it from farmers? Edit: i readed that it‘s straw ! Thought it was something else :)
Beautiful. So many of us understand the deep heart feeling you express of the simple beauty of a more difficult existence, with less glaring colour, less stuff. Best wishes--
I remember some people had hay matresses as early back as the 90's, and some people probably still use them, except the hay was sewn in and there were like three matresses per bed, so that the hay didn't get pushed to the outsides of the bed. They were a bit noisy, but fairly comfortable - I have no idea if they can get infested easily though. The best way to sleep on hay is inside a barn though, especially if it's fresh - nothing beats that lovely smell!
Wow, very nice. Really impressed with your recreation of iron age living. Nice tools, especially that Damascus knife. And the music at the end was very fitting - could almost feel myself in that time period.
Good one, thanks! I know nothing about beds of your period and location and I am very happy that they were that comfy! Very interesting, looking forward to future improvements!😊
My grandparents had a rope bed in one of their bedrooms. I think from one of their grandparents. They used box spring and mattress, but the rope holes were still there. We live in Arkansas and it’s so neat to think how old this design is and how many miles it traveled.
@@gesithasgewissa definitely! The wax will limit the fraying with time, the clay will shield the wax from sparks, because with a lot of time the flax will fray just with use and incidental contact. The sparks wouldn’t be a problem on their own in the wax, but it’s just a matter of time. Understandable not to go to the lengths though. A band of thick paint would also work and be quite decorative.
Fabulous video! For those us who love the early medieval English period and early viking age, these videos are a real treat. Beautiful work on the bed. Looking forward to future videos.
You deserve a lot more attention on this platform man. Great video. It's always nice to see men taking the time to build something with their own two hands.
@@gesithasgewissa I was surprised to learn that there's not that much evidence for saws being used on wood in the Early Medieval period. I thought surely you must have been mistaken, but I checked it out and learned that you were right. I never would have guessed that
Amazing!! the bed looks very comfortable.. In India..rope beds called 'chaarpaay' is widely popular in Northern side of the country where people use it mostly to sleep outside or on the terrace mostly during the hot summer days.. 😊🤗
Wow, I never thought that straw bed wasn't just boxes filled with straw, but had sturdy and flexible net! The bed looks so cozy, and the final shots feel so (it's a wrong word for the period, but) hugge. It would be nice to spend a few days away from a big city in a resort like this. Doesn't the floor get muddy and slippery during wet weather? Wasn't there any mats to make living place more clean and comfy back then?
Rushes/straw on the floor was commonly used as a type of easily replaceable floor covering for hundreds of years- I don't know specifically if it would have been used in this type of dwelling and this period, but it was a common way of solving the problem you described.
That's a nice bed! With just a few refinements it would be just fine in a modern home. For a modern version, I'd just add some wooden legs and a modern mattress, and maybe some linseed oil or something. I might also go over it with a plane to improve the surface, but you already did a decent job with the axe!
One of my favorite things about these videos is the sense of ambience and immersion to the past. You know what’d be pretty cool? If there was a voiceover of the captions in old English. If my pronunciation was any good I’d love to do it myself!
@@gesithasgewissaI've seen a video of chickens eating a mouse that went in their chicken run. It was caught easily and they chased each other around trying to grab it out each others beaks.
The bed was two or three days work, including filming. I have probably spent about three months of solid work on the house. I am working on plans for more history focused videos around the wider context of 7th century South West Britain, keep an eye out!
Undeniable, it looks cozy af but I still giggle thinking of how I prefer watching you while laying in a bed that has a heating pad on the mattress and a heating blanket on top of me, I'm basically pretending to be a giant ham toastie 🤣
Great job!. Your videos are fantastic, Great camera work, nice storytelling. Also I am in awe of your work on this house, The making of the bed opened my eyes to why when people fled unrest in the past they tried to bring their furniture. It always seemed crazy, but watching u i realize how much effort would have goon in to each piece and understand.
Hi all! You can check the subtitles and description for much more detail. Thanks for watching, and many thanks to Herknungr for the music 'Нови Циклус'! If you like what I do and want to support me further, consider becoming a patron: www.patreon.com/gesithasgewissa/
Wonderful, thank you for sharing with us! It looks very cosy.
Great work, 10/10!
This!! As an former Anglo Saxon recreationist there is a lot to learn from our ancestors and other cultures’ ancestors. Very fine work! I was not as in depth as you work here for various reason. A bit jealous really. Love your channel. Just found it and subscribed.
@@Pippi-Longstocking Welcome Pippi! Thanks for your kind words ☺
Wish I could. Great content. I love it and I think you are right.
You made the Anglo-Saxon house into an Anglo-Saxon home!
It is feeling very cosy!
Morgan Donner has a project building at her house where she and her husband made a medieval bed. She covers how she made the reed mats for it and shows her resaech. ruclips.net/video/64yNsPxVEnc/видео.htmlsi=PaX1Ziq-puaApE_-
without a cat a home still is a house
Big props to the cameraman for going back in time to bring us this glimpse of the past!
Haha, he's the real hero!
RUclips comment's section truly is the new reddit....
big props for coming up with an original comment, loser.
All hail the camera man
@@smalltowns374What does this mean??
This is essentially the same type of bed my great grandparents described as common in Southern Appalachia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The main difference was that the mattress my great grandparents slept on would’ve been stuffed with feathers or down, but the wooden box with the tightened strings was essentially unchanged over a thousand years later.
Fascinating, thanks for sharing! I will be making a wool or feather mattress in the future.
I've heard the same from my father who was raised by his grandparents.
Yes , my grandparents still had rope in England in the 1950s with a stuffed ‘modern’
mattress . They later had a bed with sprung/woven
metal mesh instead of the rope .
I have disassembled and reassembled one of those beds as a furniture mover in southern Appalachia. It was a unique experience and I now appreciate it even more.
@@bradchambers5886 That’s really cool! I’ve seen them in old cabins at some point (probably Cades Cove or the like), but I never saw one outside of a museum setting.
The origin of the phrase "sleep tight". Meaning, the rope stays tight and the mattress doesn't sag while you're sleeping, so you get a good night's sleep.
That's cool, thanks for sharing!
I thought it was for the bed bugs to not bite
That’s pretty cool….never thought about it much 🤨🤨🤔🤔
@@grass-touchedThat's the ither thing to wish someone for a good night's sleep. 1: sleep tight (the cords are tight and you're held above the floor) and 2: Hope the parasites (bed bugs) don't bite you.
Thankyou for making a video so informative and without eating animals.
There is a lot to love in this video, but one detail that really struck me was the tape measure of knotted string. I thought that was just great.
Thank you, three barleycorns to an Old English inch!
I suppose making a measuring string , and other tools, must have been part of an apprentices training?
@@lauralake7430 Potentially! Expert craftsman would certainly have taken on apprentices and followers.
My mother told me how as a child they would visit her grandparents. The beds had straw mattresses and they would wriggle themselves hollows in the straw to snuggle into to stay extra warm in the unheated bedroom.
The straw does feel very warm to sleep on!
I am allergic to horses, I guess because of the old horsehair mattresses I slept on as a kid
My grandmother too, only problem she said was the flea infestations.
I was having a bit of anxiety and difficulty falling asleep last night, so I put on RUclips as I was laying in bed and looked for something tranquil to watch. This popped up in my recommended, and it was so fascinating and so relaxing, I ended up watching more of your videos of you building the pit house. I dozed off partway through the third video, and finished catching up on your pit house series today. Great content! I love how you don't pad your videos with anything unrelated to the content at hand, and instead just show us what we're here to see. I can't even begin to tell you how much that's appreciated in the current climate of content creation on the internet. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I'm glad my videos helped you ☺
Many years ago, I spent the night in a sort of Portuguese “Agriturismo” B&B . This was found for us by the local policeman, as tourists weren’t supposed to be left to Rome about the countryside at night !(we had our car, but had not been able to find a room anywhere.)
The bed although rather noisy and rustling, was very comfortable. It was almost identical to the one shown, though the “ mattress” was a big bag stuffed with corn stalks. I was awoken in the morning by the cockerel roosting on the rafters above the end of the bed!
I might add that the room, and the bed, in spite of the cock, were both spotless.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing
Well done. Modern film makers often portray our ancestors sleeping on the floor with just a bit of straw just like or even with farm animals . However contemporary illustrations show them sleeping in beds looking surprisingly modern with pillows sheets and blankets
Thank you. Yes, there are so many misconceptions about the Medieval period; that people lived in poor conditions with crude skills and equipment. But this was very rarely the case, the Medieval period was filled with art, highly developed skills and masterly crafted artefacts.
HE EVEN HAS THE 'KNOT!!!!!' The attention to detail is IMMACULATE!!!!
Thank you! ☺
@user-kr4rz5hn4n I believe they mean the carved triquetra knot which I hang from my belt; you can see it better in my pit house video Part V ☺
@@gesithasgewissa That and the hair style. Viking men commonly wore an 'updo' that consisted of their hair pulled up into a 'knot.' hence the name. I didnt realize you did it just by chance XD
(Forensic ondontology with a weird fascination for skin and hair so while people assume all vikings wore was braids, nope.)
@user-kr4rz5hn4n his hair
I believe this is the natural state of mankind. Not arguing over politics and staring at a screen all day.
This life does feel much better!
@@gesithasgewissa indeed
As we all say from our screens 🌝😂
@@Luigi82932 fair point 😄
Do you think they argued over who had the best pocket rock. "Limestone rocks are just overpriced, all you're paying for is the looks, a sandstone rock will work just as well"
Good job. This gives us a good idea of what it meant for a large part of the European population to go from life in Roman villas, with aqueducts, sewers, stone houses and roads, back to wooden and straw huts. A setback of a thousand years in just a couple of generations.
Very true, although it wasn't necessarily a regression in terms of cultural knowledge or technologies, but perhaps largely due to the huge drop in population, meaning that most of these structures were not worth maintaining - particularly the aqueducts, sewers and roads! Stone buildings did continue in the form of churches.
The goat of historical crafting on RUclips! We totally apreciate your work. Keep on
💚💪
Thank you guys, loving the review videos! Respect to you both as well.
I didn't think I'd ever want to watch 11 minutes and 44 seconds of someone making a bed but here we are 🛏
Haha, glad to hear I convinced you!
Beautiful work with such simple hand tools, and such a clever design with the pins and wedges. Our ancestors were smart.
The obvious downside being the amount of work it took to make these things as well as the fact they have to be constantly repaired. They definitely got their exercise in that time.
Thank you very much, our ancestors were indeed talented!
Sleeping in a loom weaves sweet dreams indeed!
Haha! Thanks for watching!
Well researched and evidenced, with no compromise to historical accuracy. Very impressive. I love following your insights into the everyday life of our ancestors.
Thank you for such kind words!
In the book "Heidy", an old children's book, they slept on straw bedding
very nice! you could also try soaking the string (or rope for that matter) and work it wet. when it dries it'll shrink slightly and be tight as a drum.
A great idea for rawhide!!
Behind every great carpenter is a great blacksmith , and in this construction a great rope maker 😊
Very true!
Rope beds were quite common here in the U.S. into the 20th century, but we used much thicker ropes. They were tightened by using a "Rope wrench" which slipped behind the holding knot. You pried the knot with the wrench to tension the rope, then temporarily stuck a tapered peg into the the hole where the knot is. This held the tension so you could loosen the knot and move it closer to the bed frame. The wrench was usually hung either on the bed frame itself or on the wall nearby.
Cool, thanks for sharing! I should have probably used thicker rope here too.
This is why I want to get back to making the things I need in life rather than buying stuff that isn't going to last and costs so much money.
Well said!
Guess what? Handmade things don't last either :)
@@michaelgrey7854 Depends how well you make them 😉
have you tried woodworking with hand tools before ? that chisel sharpening alone would take some practice to master
@@ahsansariyadi29 Are you asking me? I have done a lot of carpentry before, and spent a year working as a shipwright for the Sutton Hoo Ship's company, using only hand tools ☺
Great job on the bed and the video. Welcome to the mind boggling and aggravating world of continuous rope stretch. As someone that has been sleeping on a 1820 built rope bed for 20 plus years I can tell you. Rope that you are sleeping on has an physics defying ability to never finish stretching. All rope beds aspire to be hammocks. Personally, after several years I surrendered and cut a piece of 3/4 plywood to lay over the ropes ( lol haven’t had to use my rope wrench since ). Thanks again for your work producing these beautiful videos.
Thanks. I am just realising that the rope stretch might be an issue haha!
Could the rope be "shrunk" by wetting them and drying over a fire?
@@robloggia Maybe if they were rawhide ropes
I just finished My own bed like this, but i made it quite wide For experiment. I Dont know what kind of Roper i should buy as The rope i bought seem to.just stretch And not settle. Perhapse 150cm winde bed is simply too wide? Or is My rope just too thin or low quality? @@gesithasgewissa
@@anttitheinternetguy3213 I think there are examples of medieval rope beds wide enough for two people. Perhaps try thicker rope, over 1/2 an inch thickness?
The way you twist a branch to make it malleable to use as a rope is brilliant. ❤
Thank you, it's good fun!
It’s amazing to thinkf all the everyday skills we have lost over the centuries.
Every war and plague made us lose even greater amounts of ancestral knowledge, sadly. So much knowledge was lost in the first world war, so many practitioners of ancient crafts. Much of that knowledge we can't recover, but at least there are people trying to revive these old skills.
I think it is very important to celebrate heritage and traditional crafts!
awesome,was not expecting an early type of rope bed,cool
Glad you liked it!
Yet more proof that our ancestors were a lot smarter and resourceful than what we originally thought.
Thanks for the amazing work you do, friend; these little snapshots in history will be invaluable teaching tools for the future.
Indeed! Experimental archaeology is constantly teaching me and fills me with respect for our ancestors.
I imagine you have a lot more free time to figure this out when your only main job is to sow seeds in spring and havest them in Autumn. That's two whole seasons where there isn't much to do. And aside from tax, "You reap what you sow." One thing we forget is how much free time our ancestors had, which can be seen by how many social events were marked with celebration and festivities.
It's only after industralization, we have this... Grinding lifestyle of spending over half of our waking hours working sowing seeds we will never reap, with only 2 rest days in a week, and then only a few weeks off throughout the year.
Now there’s some furniture the house is starting to feel more like a cosy little Anglo-Saxon home now
Thank you, it feels that way for me too!
We take so much for granted in this modern day it is fascinating to see how our ancestors did some of these things.
I'm glad you found it fascinating!
My grandfather had similar bed made who knows when up until his death in 1986. His bed had mattress bag made from old potato or rye seeds bags and it was filled with dried grass. Grass was changed every so often. I slept in that bed when I was little and I still remember smell of that grass.
That's great. Thank you for sharing!
I just love the part at the end where you’re sitting on your new bed by the fire and sewing. ❤ To me the most wonderful feeling is just working on something small with someone else nearby working on something too, relaxed and warm and comfy. 😊
It is an incredible feeling, especially in a self-made house and bed! Thanks for watching ☺
This way of building houses should be taught in schools because it is complex and fascinating and useful. I would have loved to learn to be able to build this type of dwelling. You are an artist. Thank you ❤.
Thank you! That's a great idea, I've seen a few forest schools here in Britain get involved in wattle and daub projects, the kids love it ☺
I wonder how many times (probably millions) that an Anglo-Saxon man said "I wish this was about a forearm longer". Fascinating video.
Haha! I know, I was slightly frustrated 😄 ah well, next time!
I am fascinated and delighted watching this man's skills and yet feel completely peaceful by the end of the video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Probably the camera angle, but is the fire a bit close!? Superb skills, I didn't realise hemp rope could be so strong.@@gesithasgewissa
@@edwinmason123 Close enough to keep me warm! 😄
I just had a terrible vision of the blanket scorching! Your work is stunning and so interesting. I love working with wood, natural materials but you have genuinely shown what is possible.@@gesithasgewissa
Great craftsmanship👏
Hey man, thanks so much! Hope you're doing well ☺
To be fair. You did better than me with power tools. Bravo Squire. Looks comfy as.
I do love hand tools haha! Thank you.
This channel and Primitive Technology are my fav. I love anglo-saxons and vikings so this is always a great watch.
Primitive Technology is fantastic, and a major inspiration for me!
En tant qu'Inconditionnelle du Moyen Âge et de Fidelma de Cashel, qui sillonnent son Irlande, la Grande Bretagne et L'Europe du VIIéme siècle pour confondre les assassins, je serai encore plus immergée dans ces romans à l'avenir grâce à vos vidéos et je pourrai imaginer les maisons, les lits, pour l'instant, dans lesquels elle est amenée à dormir lors de ses voyages. Vous voir mesurer en pouces m'a régalée. J'avais vu utiliser des coudées en visitant le Château de Guédelon (France, château mediéval construit avec les moyens de l' Époque) , mais ces petits nœuds m'ont amusée.
Le lit est impressionnant, mais ça doit s'enfoncer 😂.. J'adore ce voyage dans le temps.
Je m'abonne et attend la suite de votre aménagement intérieur..
Merci. ❤
Wow, fascinating, thanks for sharing ☺
I watch The Tudor Monastery Farm series. Every night to go to bed. I'm a homesteader. I love this!!!
I love that series!
I loved that demonstration of how a medieval bed is made. Awesome.
Thanks for watching!
This video got me to sub. My young daughter and I watched it to help get her to sleep. Not in a bad way of course. We talked about the techniques you used and tried to guess what each step would lend to the next. 12 minute later she's ready to start going to sleep.
Good quality, clean editing, interesting subject - nicely done.
I'd love to watch you just develop the pit house and immediately surrounding land as it would have been done. I'd also be fine with whatever shortcut you might find acceptable given time and manpower constraints. But that's just me :)
I'm glad both you and your daughter enjoyed the video! I'm definitely planning to keep improving the house and working on the land, hedging, coppicing, farming and so on.
Wow, a lot of guys couldn't cut that straight or cleanly with modern power tools...amazing.
Thank you. The T-shaped side axe is really useful for accurate axe cuts!
Medieval Britain is simply the most fascinating time and place in my mind.
It is indeed!
Our ansestors were absolutely amazing! Just so strong and resilient! So hardworking and smart! Never ceases to amaze me!
I agree. Following in their footsteps I am filled with respect for people of the past.
Use clay with chaff to process and smooth the walls inside. Keeps the heath inside perfectly. Nice bed.
Very good job.
Yes, I will be daubing the inside as well, just haven't got round to it yet. Thank you!
This actually looks pretty comfortable.
Indeed!
I get so excited any time I see a new video for the house come out
Thanks for watching!
Measure 12 times, cut once! Wow. How much work this is. Makes me appreciate the craft of the past so much more.
Everything required dedication and patience. It's an honour to try and follow in the footsteps of the old craftsmen and women.
Wow. It's just spectacular work, and a real treat to see you doing it. And sharpening too! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you very much!
Nice can't wait to see other furniture.
Thank you, neither can I!
This looks very comfortable. Maybe even more so than some old mattresses. It sure must be nice to be able to sleep on something you made yourself, it must be satisfying.
It is pretty comfortable!
I am loving this project of yours and how it is coming together. I love that you are not letting the winter weather stop you from building or crafting, either outdoors or indoors. As a medieval reenactor, I greatly enjoy videos such as yours that bring our history to life! Thank you!
Though the winter is cold and dark, life goes on, and the sun will return! Thank you for the kind words.
You have a great bushcraft talent. That was inspiring to watch. I enjoy seeing old style skills being put to use. Thanks for showing this 🙏
Thank you for the kind words!
@@gesithasgewissa You're very welcome. God bless.
Now I want to make my own bed 😂, thank you!
Nice! It's a really fun project. Thanks for watching Theud!
I have plans today , i will watch the video later but i hope the comment boost your range. Thanks for your work 👍🏻 cheers!
Thanks Helio!
Allright ! Was a good choice to watch it with time , i realy enjoyed it my friend. As always thanks for your work , its amazing that your work is apprecciated by a huge audience now. I‘m stil looking around for my own propperty , when i have mine i will try to follow your advice here. I like the rustical style of the bed. May i ask you , where do you get all the filling material ? You also used it on the roof as well. Does it grow around you place , or do you buy it from farmers?
Edit: i readed that it‘s straw ! Thought it was something else :)
Sir, you generate excellent content!
Greetings from Germany,
Marcus
Thank you and Welcome, Marcus!
It would be awesome to see how you build a bigger house with wooden beams, pillars and clay inbetween the wood and white painted walls! ❤🎉
I would love to do a larger timber framed house in the future!
That would be awesome! Are you owning that property? :)
It is my land, yes
A channel called Mr Chickadee has some videos about building a house like that. He uses only hand tools too.
@@itzakpoelzig330 He is a major inspiration for me, an incredible craftsman!
Beautiful. So many of us understand the deep heart feeling you express of the simple beauty of a more difficult existence, with less glaring colour, less stuff. Best wishes--
Thank you, it is a beautiful life to lead, in many ways!
This is fascinating and so appropriate for this medieval fantasy I am researching. I am so glad I found your channel.
I'm glad to have helped your research. Thanks for watching!
I remember some people had hay matresses as early back as the 90's, and some people probably still use them, except the hay was sewn in and there were like three matresses per bed, so that the hay didn't get pushed to the outsides of the bed. They were a bit noisy, but fairly comfortable - I have no idea if they can get infested easily though. The best way to sleep on hay is inside a barn though, especially if it's fresh - nothing beats that lovely smell!
So far, it's very comfortable and smells lovely!
Actually looks pretty cozy!
Thank you, it is!
No podía faltar una buena cama que armonizará con la cabaña y la naturaleza . Espléndido! ☕️🫖
Thank you!
Wow, very nice. Really impressed with your recreation of iron age living. Nice tools, especially that Damascus knife. And the music at the end was very fitting - could almost feel myself in that time period.
Thank you very much!
Good one, thanks!
I know nothing about beds of your period and location and I am very happy that they were that comfy! Very interesting, looking forward to future improvements!😊
Thanks Hrafnir!
I've not seen rope beds in an anglo saxon context before, very interesting .
There are several Anglo-Saxon bed burials with evidence for a rope lattice. Thanks for watching!
Well done! Great to see you filling out the house with baskets and the bed.
Yes, it's starting to feel quite homely!
Im waiting EVERYDAY for your RUclips videos! Im so happy everytime ❤
I'm glad to hear it!
My grandparents had a rope bed in one of their bedrooms. I think from one of their grandparents. They used box spring and mattress, but the rope holes were still there. We live in Arkansas and it’s so neat to think how old this design is and how many miles it traveled.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
Whole new meaning to make the bed
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A bit of beeswax on the bedstrings where they are exposed and then some clay dabbed on over that in a few layers might help protect them from sparks.
Nice idea! Although a spark would be very unlikely to catch unless the flax is frayed.
@@gesithasgewissa definitely! The wax will limit the fraying with time, the clay will shield the wax from sparks, because with a lot of time the flax will fray just with use and incidental contact. The sparks wouldn’t be a problem on their own in the wax, but it’s just a matter of time. Understandable not to go to the lengths though. A band of thick paint would also work and be quite decorative.
So beautiful, thank you for sharing your dream.
Thanks for watching!
first time seeing one of your videos, i am in absolute awe of your skill, thank you so much for keeping this knowledge alive
Thank you for the kind words!
Fabulous video! For those us who love the early medieval English period and early viking age, these videos are a real treat. Beautiful work on the bed. Looking forward to future videos.
Thank you for the kind words!
Your videos are the perfect combination of enthralling and soothing. Looking forward to the next!
Can't wait to share more with you all!
You deserve a lot more attention on this platform man. Great video. It's always nice to see men taking the time to build something with their own two hands.
Thank you very much!
great axe skills thanks for showing us how furniture can be made using basic tools
Thank you Peter!
Lookin pretty darn good in there!
Thanks!
@@gesithasgewissa I was surprised to learn that there's not that much evidence for saws being used on wood in the Early Medieval period. I thought surely you must have been mistaken, but I checked it out and learned that you were right. I never would have guessed that
Greetings from Paris , I love your house 🤍
Welcome, and thank you!
Thank You for that yideo. Historical accurate...amazing skills and very instructional too. I am impressed.
Thank you very much!
Your building and craftsmanship are amazing 😮 You are truly talented
Thank you very much!
Amazing!! the bed looks very comfortable..
In India..rope beds called 'chaarpaay' is widely popular in Northern side of the country where people use it mostly to sleep outside or on the terrace mostly during the hot summer days.. 😊🤗
Cool, that sounds beautiful!
Wow, I never thought that straw bed wasn't just boxes filled with straw, but had sturdy and flexible net! The bed looks so cozy, and the final shots feel so (it's a wrong word for the period, but) hugge. It would be nice to spend a few days away from a big city in a resort like this.
Doesn't the floor get muddy and slippery during wet weather? Wasn't there any mats to make living place more clean and comfy back then?
Rushes/straw on the floor was commonly used as a type of easily replaceable floor covering for hundreds of years- I don't know specifically if it would have been used in this type of dwelling and this period, but it was a common way of solving the problem you described.
It is very cosy. The floor stays dry even in wet weather but I could put rushes or timber floor boards down yes. Thanks for watching!
He's Back! & with a Comfy Bed i must Say!
Thanks for watching!
I'd love a bed like that. Outstanding job.
Thank you!
That's a nice bed! With just a few refinements it would be just fine in a modern home. For a modern version, I'd just add some wooden legs and a modern mattress, and maybe some linseed oil or something. I might also go over it with a plane to improve the surface, but you already did a decent job with the axe!
Thank you very much!
Pure joy to watch, thank you
Happy to hear it, thank you!
One of my favorite things about these videos is the sense of ambience and immersion to the past.
You know what’d be pretty cool? If there was a voiceover of the captions in old English. If my pronunciation was any good I’d love to do it myself!
I'd love that! I'd need to learn Old English first haha
Great job. I can imagine that blanket under you was not only for comfort but also to keep mice/rats away that surely inhabited that straw.
That will help too, plenty of mice living in the thatch already!
@@gesithasgewissaI've seen a video of chickens eating a mouse that went in their chicken run. It was caught easily and they chased each other around trying to grab it out each others beaks.
@@stephena1196 Chickens are lethal! 😅
This was a great video! Really enjoyed watching it. Makes you want to make one.
Thank you, you should!
I think your project here, just fantastic 👌🤗
Thank you!
Your skill with that axe is amazing. So precise with such a large tool
Thank you kindly!
Talk about making your bed. Thank you for this vid!
Thanks for watching. I prefer making quiet videos at the moment, but maybe in the future.
Starting to look quite cozy in there! Are we going to see a camping out in the pit house for a night video coming after the house is complete?
Certainly, you will see some camping and cooking, now that I am working on the inside of the house ☺
Would love an idea of how long these projects take for you. Would love to add some context to the timeliness of settlement
The bed was two or three days work, including filming. I have probably spent about three months of solid work on the house. I am working on plans for more history focused videos around the wider context of 7th century South West Britain, keep an eye out!
This bed is made with great craftsmanship. This is super cool. I want to try this as well.
You should try it, it's a fun project!
Undeniable, it looks cozy af but I still giggle thinking of how I prefer watching you while laying in a bed that has a heating pad on the mattress and a heating blanket on top of me, I'm basically pretending to be a giant ham toastie 🤣
😆😆 that sounds so cosy!
Great job!. Your videos are fantastic, Great camera work, nice storytelling.
Also I am in awe of your work on this house,
The making of the bed opened my eyes to why when people fled unrest in the past they tried to bring their furniture. It always seemed crazy, but watching u i realize how much effort would have goon in to each piece and understand.
Yes, a lot of time and effort would have went into crafting each piece. Thanks for watching!
Looks great and surprisingly comfy! Have you tried spending a night on it yet?
I have, it's pretty comfortable!
This series has been so interesting and inspiring to watch. Thank you for recording all this hard work for us!
Thank you very much!
Very cosy sitting on your bed with the fire. Who could ask for more.
It felt very cosy indeed!