𝕸 Material, Power Resources

Bones, wood ash, urine, rags -- very little went to waste in Medieval Europe.

Bone, Horn:

Bone Tools, Textiles ➧ 

Chitin ..

Needle from Bone ..

Chemical: 
Alchemy, Primitive Medicine ..      

Alchemy to Science .. 

Artillery - Gunpowder in the Middle Ages ..
Black powder -- gunpowder ..
Calligraphy, Ink, Dyes, Ochre, Pigments ..
Dye, Pigments, Ochre ..
Glue & Resin ..
Glue - Medieval ..

Gongfermors & Uses for Excreta ..

Explosive Facts About the Invention of Gunpowder - TopT > .
Lime ..  

Lye ..               

Potash Alum ..            

Quicklime, Lime .. 

Soapmaking ..
Urine - a medieval resource ..
Urine - medieval uses ..

Clay, Chalk:  
Earth Pigments ..
Kilns, Furnaces ..
Oven - cob, earthen ..

Drink:
Mead & Vikings ..  

Water - risks of drinking ..   

Dye, Pigment:

Calligraphy, Ink, Dyes, Ochre, Pigments ..
Dye, Pigments, Ochre ..
Earth Pigments ..

Fabric: 

Cloth Industry - Medieval & Tudor .. 
dogswain & hopharlot ..       

Fiber, Cordage, Spinning ..  

Hop-harlot and dogswain ..      

Knitting, Nålebinding, Sprang ..

Papyrus ..

Parchment .. 

Peg Loom ..

Spinning - Hx, gallery ..
Sprang, Nålebinding ..

Textiles & Tools ➧ 

Fibre: 

Fiber, Cordage, Spinning .. 

Knitting, Nålebinding, Sprang ..
Linden .. 

Papyrus .. 
Rush light to tallow ..   

Textiles & Tools ➧ 

Weaving willow - eal trap, lobster pot, basket ..

Fleece:

Cloth Industry - Medieval & Tudor ..     

Food: 
Cherries, Plums, Blackthorn ..     

Fish Farming ..            

Foraging - Wild Food ..        

Forestry Products:  
Agisters, Verderers, Medieval Forest of Dean, New Forest ..   
Askeburner ..       

Charcoal Burn .. 

Cherries, Plums, Blackthorn ..   
Forest of Dean - ironworking ..         

Linden ..      

Poplars ..          

Rowans and Whitebeams ..      

Weaving willow - eal trap, lobster pot, basket ..
Willows .. 
Wood use - Charcoal ..     

Fuel, Light: 
Askeburner ..     

Charcoal Burn ..   
Oven - cob, earthen ..  

Rush light to tallow ..

Herbalism:     
Alchemy, Primitive Medicine ..
Apothecaries, Barbers, Herbalists, Midwives ..                     

Herbalism, Humours, Illness ..     
Linden ..   
Morphine spread ..           

Service Tree .. 

Leather, Parchment, Skins:

Footwear, Cordwainers, Leather ..  

Leather tanning - Medieval to Edwardian .. 

Parchment .. 

Salmon-skin clothing ..
Tanning ..      

Tanning and Leather ..

Mechanical Power

Thirlage & Watermills - Scotland ..   

Metal:       

Blacksmithing ..     

Early Metal Working ..

Firescale ..     
Forest of Dean - ironworking ..     

Goldsmiths ..       

Iron Industry ..      

Iron furnace ..         

Iron - furnaces, foundries, smithing ..
Kilns, Furnaces ..  

Metal - Bronze, Foundry, Weapons ..
Mining, Smelting, Refining ..  

Metal - Bronze, Foundry, Weapons ..       

Metal & Smithing: Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings ..  

Navigation - lodestone & magnetic compasses .. 
Pewter, Gold, Silver ..
Smelting .. 
Weald Ironworkers ..       

Mineral:     
Cement & Pozzolans ..
Calligraphy, Ink, Dyes, Ochre, Pigments ..
Dye, Pigments, Ochre ..
Earth Pigments ..

Glassmaking ..        

Mining, Smelting, Refining .. 
Oven - cob, earthen ..
Pompēiānī recycled construction materials →

Paper: 
Coucher ..       

Layer ..       

Papermaking - Medieval to Early Modern ..       

Paper Making Process - Medieval ..   

Papyrus ..

Parchment .. 

Vatman ..       

Plant Fibre:

Cloth Industry - Medieval & Tudor ..       

Papyrus .. 

Textiles & Tools ➧ 

Poultry: 

Feather Paintbrush ..       

Feather to Quill Pen ..   

Pigeon - Rock dove ..         

Power - Animal, Water, Wind:   
Tidal Mills, Tidal Bores ..     
Treadwheel winch, crane ..    

Trompe ..       

Water Lifting Machines ..

Water-powered hammer - monjolo .. 

Stone, Mortar:

Cement & Pozzolans ..   
Granite Trough ..    

Guédelon - 13thC-style castle ➧
Lime ..
Quicklime, Lime ..

Timber:

Waste not, Want not

Gongfermors & Uses for Excreta ..

Water:
Water Lifting Machines ..

Water-powered hammer - monjolo .. 

● Medieval & Green Index of Topics .. 

𝕸 Animals, Livestock ..

𝕸 Apparel - Fiber, Fabric, Leather, Basketry .. 

𝕸 Chemicals, Explosives ..

𝕸 Daily Life ..   

𝕸 Drink .. 

𝕸 Economy ..

𝕸 Food & Cooking .. 

𝕸 Forestry, Timber, Woodworking .. 

𝕸 Fuel, Light ..

𝕸 Livestock, Fodder .. 

𝕸 Mechanical Power, Industry .. 

𝕸 Metal, Metalworking ..
𝕸 Peasant Society ..

𝕸 Resources (materials, power) ..         

𝕸 Stone ..