historical

Jell Dragon is a store that specializes in high quality replicas of the Viking Era and Nordic cultures. The stores have a supply of authentic Viking jewellery, weapons, costume, living history supplies, banquet supplies (ohh I love the drinking hongs with leather belt straps to hold) and accessories like helmets and gauntlets to Viking enthusiasts the world over. It also features a selection of nordic music and books and even statuettes casted in bronze of viking deities. If you want to make a movie inspired in these ancient times, you'll find also leather sewing kits, accessories and materials so you can make custom items yourself  like belts ends, wood needles...

Topsy Turvy design: Costume accesories  for film, stage, and play

Skyridgedesigns is a website that feature a collection of historical garments from medieval and renaissance to victorian for women, men and children.

Above: "Lady of the lake" model

Alassie Angelines is a spanish designer that specializes in historical garments. She created her own company called "El Costurero Real" delivering accurate replicas of medieval garments of a very high quality, using materials, dyes, and jewelry but adding also her own interpretation of the characters she recreate.   She's won several prizes and is making her  own way working for several cinema projects. Her blog offers also tutorials and articles of overall interest for any lover of fantasy or historical garments... so if you are going to attend a ren fair, you´d better have a look at it (so far it's only in spanish) but illustrated enough to be easily read with an online translator.

When it comes to the point to find the right shoes for a fantasy garment,  it's often one of the weak points that often spoil the historical or rigor of it all. I just found this wonderful site Lady Oren's medieval shoes with a lovely collection of shoes and boots. Most shoes can be made in leather or suede  and you can add some motifs in certain models. I love these below, a with a leaf fairy design burnt on leather:

We´ve all seen drawings in old books of Irish fairy tales with those fancy to dance all night away with goblins and fairies... Ghillies are typical soft  leather shoes for irish and scottish dancing in fact and have a lovely ancient traditional historical look For an accurate definition read this wikipedia article about them (yes I know this term is also used for some camouflage material as we´ll cover in the future). Surfing the net I found the perfect site for them...