Traditional Archery

I first became interested in traditional archery through the St. Sebastian's Rennaisance Guild. I am a member of the National Field Archery Association, the California State Archery Association and have served as secretary of the Northwoods Bowmen's Club in Marin County, CA.

Some links to other archery sites can be found below.

Over the last four years I have been making and shooting wood longbows and arrows. I have been gleaning information from people and books and teaching myself much by trial and error. Here I present a few photos and share some of my experiences along the way.


Unless otherwise noted, photography is by my wife and is copyright © Cindy Pavlinac, Sacred Land Photography.

The renaissance look with longbow and arrows.

Starting a new longbow of oak.The board is worked down with a drawknife to follow a single growth ring, which becomes the back of the bow.

Arrow shaft showing a self nock (cut directly into the wooden shaft) and tied-on fletching. The nock is re-inforced with a wrapping of silk thread and the entire fletched portion of the shaft is given three coats of laquer.

(This fuzzy photo not by Cindy.)

Here's another one, this one has feathers spliced in the crest colors.

Links to Other Archery Sites

• The Briones Archers HOME PAGE - A neighboring club
• California Archery
• Home page of Ari Kontiainen - A list of websites worldwide
• Mary Rose Homeport - not an archery site as such, but an interesting source of historical information on the 1545 English shipwreck
• Rowan's SCA page - lots of very good SCA related and historical info
• The Bowsite

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