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Asgaard: handcrafted leather items for Norse Gods

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  We have previously featured some articles about viking attires and clothing.Asgaard is one of the nine realms of Norse Religion and also the capital where the gods live. Valhalla is located within Asgaard.  Now that I'm reading myself again the Edda´s found so lovely to feature a new article inspired by it.  Asgaard is small company run by  spanish crafter, artisan  and photographer David López. Some items are directly inspired in the ancient northern Europe viking and northern legends and other historical elements, some others are more infused by fantasy elements, but overall, they're crafted with quality and looks killing as you can prove by the photography examples that David himself have made using the elements he's created. All items are handmade and sewed using the finest leather and craftmanship.  So if you want to go to that renaissance fair or you're simply feel an attraction for the viking warrior of you're into historic recreation please do have a look to this store.

 
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Iddle wild illustree: fairytale and historical garments... oh and Sleepy Hollow replicas!!

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Iddle wild illustree is a store that makes high quality historic costumes and clothing. Research and historical accuracy  is very important to the designer that also likes to make vintage drawings and stamps with historical costume work though with a whimsical twist. When having a bit more freedom and an item item has a fantasy not so historicall bent or is made of modern materials is pointed out.

 
Your dressmaker

Your Dress Maker: historical, pagan, gothic... a bit of everything!

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Your dress maker is an ebay store that lists some historical and renaissance garments. All clothes can be custom tailored to fit your size.  The company is based in Thailand and offers some really full garments for quite affordable prices. The store lists in several languages so you can be sure about the purchase process. Above: Taffeta renaissance Gown. Made of taffeta and decorated with pearls. The gown is fastened with laces at the back. The upper part is boned and fully lined. It features a collection of historical garments from a wide range of prices from medieval to Italian renaissance, Tudor, French Baroque (these would be an add to our previous Marie Antoniette´s article) , Civil War and more...  From noble clothing to peasants...

 

Jell Dragon: For an accurate historical viking and nordic costume

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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: whimsical historical hats from Renaissance to Burlesque!

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

 

Skyridgedesigns historical clothing

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

 

El Costurero Real: King Arthur's legends collection

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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.

 

More historical and medieval shoes for your feet....!!

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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:

 

Medieval moccasins and ghillies for Highlanders, irish goblins and fairies

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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...