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Hello!
Hello and welcome to LARP Patterns! A website built to act as a directory to useful patterns and craft tutorials for LARPers, Re-Enactors and anyone else who wants to make their wardrobe a bit out of the ordinary. If you know of free patterns or pattern companies that you think would be useful for the…
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Tutorial For Rus Viking Trousers/Pants
If you need to add some trousers or pants to your LARP wardrobe this tutorial from Maris Armoury will give you a chance to make some Rus Viking style ones. They are perfect for historical reenactment and fantasy!
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Viking Sewing Resource PDF
Hello Everyone! This YouTube creator has compiled a fantastic document of Viking Age sewing techniques. The PDF is nearly 50 pages long and is packed with details that many reenactors and LARPers will find super useful. The channel is Wyrd Kindred and they have kindly allowed the sharing of the PDF wherever it might find an…
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St. Birgitta Caps
Opus Elenae is one of my absolute favourite crafters on the internet, I’ve made two hoods based on the pattern for her Londinium Hood! Recently she posted this video showing three ways to make a St. Birgitta cap, all at different levels of difficulty. I think this is incredibly useful and I will definitely be…
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Free Elizabethan Corset/Stays Pattern
Good evening everyone, Just a quick post today as I am still getting over a severe case of the sniffles from my latest jaunt out and about. This is a link to the Custom Elizabethan Stays Generator hosted on Elizabethancostume.net. You plug in your measurements and it gives you the pattern to make a set…
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The Ultimate Pattern List For Victorian Lady’s Cycling Costume Patterns
In the later years of the Victorian era, bicycles became hugely popular. Women especially loved them as they helped give them independence while being significantly cheaper and easier to maintain than a horse, the only alternative. You don’t need an entire extra building, fields and feeding routine for a bike, after all. You just need…
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Hobbit Style
In the crazy world we live in a lot of people find comfort in the idea of living life like a hobbit, unsurprisingly this means there are Hobbit and Hobbit adjacent LARPs popping up like someone’s put out a call for Elevensies! So I have decided to make a page for the items I find…
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CLOTHES OF THE COMMON PEOPLE: Volume 35 (Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England: A Users Manual)
This book is tricky to find (hence the fact that even the Amazon page lacks a cover image) but it is really exceptional. As it says in the title it goes into detail on the clothing options for common people in the late Elzabethan and early Stuart era rather than focusing, as many books do,…
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Ways to Dress Up Your Lamps
This video gives you some ideas on how to dress up your modern lanterns to look more historical or fantasy based. Very handy if you can only find neon green plastic LED lamps. Yes that is a personal story. How to make Cheap and Easy LARP Lanterns! – YouTube
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Chemise Tutorial
This is a really clear youtube tutorial about how to make a chemise, this one in particular is for a 1700s chemise but the basic design doesn’t change much between the medieval era and the victorian, so feel free to just use this one for that thousand years or so. One of the basic foundation…
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Toothy Face Mask Tutorial
This Tik Tok is a fantastic tutorial for making a mask for a monstrous toothy worm creature. It is short and sweet at less than two minutes, it really just shows you what you need to know to make this mask without any unnecessary fluff. I don’t have any LARPs that need this kind of…