Smoke & Fire Company

1789-1914, Accesories, Arms and armour, Arts and writings, Axes, Badges, British Isles, Camp and travel, Camp tools, Children’s clothing, Clothing, Crafts, Crockery, Documents, Dresses and skirts, Early America, Early modern period, Europe, Furniture, Games, Glass, Gloves, Hats and headwear, Household, Jewellery and decoration, Kitchen accessories, Knots, buckles and fibulae, Light, Market, Melee weapon, Men’s clothing, Men’s jewelry, Musical instruments, Northern America, Paintings, Pants and trousers, Popular themes, Post type, Pouches, Region, Shoes, Timeline, Underwear, Uniforms, Women’s clothing, Women’s jewelryLeave a comment

Colonial and War of 1812 Clothing, Patterns, Books and Camp Gear Website: https://www.smoke-fire.com Facebook: Smoke & Fire Company

The Viking Store

Accesories, Armour, Arms and armour, Clothing, Early middle ages, Europe, Helmets and head protection, Market, Melee weapon, Men’s clothing, Middle ages, Popular themes, Post type, Region, Scandinavia and Baltic countries, Shields, Timeline, Viking raids, Women’s clothingLeave a comment

Medieval reenactment products, mostly shields and helmets. Also many LARP, Cosplay and viking-themed products, primarily jewelry. Website: www.thevikingstore.co.uk Facebook: TheVikingStore.co.uk

AgeCraft

Accesories, Arming garments, Armour, Armour plates, Arms and armour, Axes, Balkan Peninsula, Brigantines, British Isles, Europe, France and Low Countries, Germanic countries, Hand and arm protection, Helmets and head protection, Iberian Peninsula, Italian Peninsula, Knights & Crusades, Late middle ages, Legs protection, Maces, Market, Melee weapon, Middle ages, Polearms, Popular themes, Post type, Region, Scandinavia and Baltic countries, Shields, Slavic countries and Carpathians, Swords, Timeline, Training weaponLeave a comment

A team of craftsmen, who are experienced in the sphere of blacksmithing and medieval armor production. All armor is hand crafted, produced in accordance with the technology of armor manufacturing of olden days. At the same time, all our armor meets the safety and authenticity requirements of the HMB World Championship “Battle of the Nations”.…

What was it like to travel during the Middle Ages? Part 1: Going by Road

Accesories, Camp and travel, Europe, Hydepark, Knights & Crusades, Late middle ages, Middle ages, Popular themes, Post type, RegionLeave a comment

The Middle Ages was a world on the move. Sometimes this could mean actually picking up your whole life and moving it to another place—a “sometimes” much more frequent than traditional accounts of serfdom and feudalism would have it. For example, teenagers from the countryside sought work in cities to make themselves more worthy marriage…

Found: 2,500 Medieval Coins, and Evidence of Tax Evasion

Accesories, British Isles, Europe, High middle ages, Household, Hydepark, Knights & Crusades, Middle ages, Money, Popular themes, Post type, Region, TimelineLeave a comment

IT’S OFTEN SAID THAT LIFE’S only certainties are death and taxes, but people have spent centuries figuring out ways to evade the latter. Look no further than a hoard of 2,528 11th-century coins recently discovered in England, which together bear witness to regime change, domestic unrest, and, amid it all, fraud. The coins were found in…

Smart Sword by SwordSTEM

Accesories, Arms and armour, HEMA, Hydepark, Melee weapon, Popular themes, Post type, SwordsLeave a comment

This project integrated an embedded system that detects and reports martially sound strikes into a European Longsword simulator. This system filters out parries and contact too light to be considered valid while assessing the quality of a true strike. The entire system is contained within the sword simulator while disturbing its handling as little as…