Medieval market question
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Medieval market question
I am trying to make a creation for the monthly contest on commerce/trade, and my setting is a market. What kinds of shops would there be? I have one 2 food stands, 1 drink stand, a fortune teller, a lady selling flowers, a letter carrier, and guards, but what other things would you see? I am having a mental block on the subject.
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Re: Medieval market question
Possibly a glass blower... Other than that I'm sure you can find some things via Google.
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Re: Medieval market question
Great idea! Although I'm not sure how to make a glass blower... I'll work on that. Thanks!
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Here is my take from my market years ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tyrondurkn ... 811160276/ Its kinda hard to see from the picture but I think there is another in that set somewhere of the guy.
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Re: Medieval market question
In the spirit of brainstorming, there might be a cooper, some live animals being driven to market, some other animals randomly running around, a performance of a mystery play, a thief stealing money or food, a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker, a pair of priests passing through, another thief in a set of stocks, a tinker's cart, a cobbler, a carpenter, or a weaver.
That list is obviously not anywhere close to exhaustive, but hopefully it will help to jump start the creativity. I'm looking forward to seeing what you put together.
That list is obviously not anywhere close to exhaustive, but hopefully it will help to jump start the creativity. I'm looking forward to seeing what you put together.
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It's going to be a 32x32 scene, so I want it to be colorful, crowded, but not so crowded as so you can't see the details. I wouldn't be expecting too much out of this, but I'm hoping people will like it. I like the thief in stocks idea, by the way.
*Edit: On this topic, what would be a better color for the pathways/streets? Tan, or dark bluish grey? My current street color is dark bluish grey, but I think if I looked through my bins I could find tan if need be.
*Edit: On this topic, what would be a better color for the pathways/streets? Tan, or dark bluish grey? My current street color is dark bluish grey, but I think if I looked through my bins I could find tan if need be.
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Re: Medieval market question
My suggestion would be to use a variety of colours for a pathway. Dark and light bley, reddish brown, tan, and maybe even black are all colours one would reasonably expect to see in a pathway. Nothing 'in nature' is ever just one single colour or hue, and mimicking this will lend a greater degree of realism to your market. This assumes, of course, that realism is what you're aiming for, it might not be.Rogue Shadow wrote:On this topic, what would be a better color for the pathways/streets? Tan, or dark bluish grey? My current street color is dark bluish grey, but I think if I looked through my bins I could find tan if need be.
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Re: Medieval market question
How about the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker?
Re: Medieval market question
Remember that back then a lot of things were barter systems or would be the selling and purchasing of raw goods (cotton, lumber, livestock, vegetables, etc.) and that there was often a pretty heavy religious influence in towns and castles (which is something Lego always leaves out). A good resource may be to watch some episodes of "pillars of the earth". Its a miniseries that was on starz. It has a lot of scenes of markets, and market towns in it.