Category: Tutorial
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Multiple Viking Era Dresses!
Here is a wonderful video with multiple options for anyone looking for Viking Era dresses, this includes lots of references and resources for further investigation if you are interested! The Petticoated Swashbuckler is a really good channel for anyone who wants to know more about historical European clothing, I recommend following!
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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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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…
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Wrap Style Regency Stays
(I know the corset in the picture isn’t quite right for representing this pattern but we make do with what free images we can find) This post links to a tutorial and pattern for a wonderful Regency style wrap corset/set of stays that gives the same shape as the more commonly seen lace up versions…
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