VIKING CLOTHING
FOR RE-ENACTMENT
VIKING CLOTHING BOOK
New release for 2010!! The ultimate guide to making your own Viking clothing!
Hardback book with 186 pages packed full of colour photographs and hundreds of diagrams and patterns.
Also includes full-size patterns for both men's and women's Viking clothes in a variety of sizes.
BKVC1 - Viking clothing book
Price for book + patterns £60,
US$,
€
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VIKING CLOTHING
All our Viking clothing is handmade in England from pure natural wool or linen.
Click on an item of clothing for more information.
MEN'S CLOTHING
WOMEN'S CLOTHING
Entirely handmade in Sweden all visible seams are hand-stitched using white linen thread.
| SJDR1 | Linen Viking dress. (Belt not included)
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
| £145,
US$,
€
MADE TO ORDER
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| SJDR2 | Wool Viking "hangerock" overdress with shoulder straps.
(Brooches, overcoat and underdress not included. Brooches are required to fasten the shoulder straps in place).
See washing instructions below.
NOT CURRENTLY AVAILABLE
| £145,
US$,
€
MADE TO ORDER
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| SJDR3 | Wool Viking coat.
(Brooches, hangerock and underdress not included).
See washing instructions below. Not currently available.
| £200,
US$,
€
MADE TO ORDER
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WASHING INSTRUCTIONS
WOOL
We use only pure untreated wool. (Not "machine washable wool" which is in fact mixed with or coated with plastic and
thereby loses the unique insulating properties of wool along with the ability repel dirt, odours and moisture).
Pure wool very rarely
needs to be washed as it does not retain dirt or odours, hanging on the washing line to air occasionally is usually enough.
If you do need to clean it more thouroughly then the best way is to rub it in snow! Next best is to gently hand wash it in
cold
soapy water. The reason for this is that any heat + movement will cause wool to felt, making the material denser and in the
process causing it to shrink, the more times you wash it the more it will shrink until eventually it becomes just a dense
mat of felt. This is why there is no such thing as "pre-shrunk" wool!
LINEN
Our linen is pre-washed, pre-shrunk and pre-ironed. It is therefore safe for you to wash it in a washing machine
at up to 90 degrees centigrade,
but to preserve the fabric for as long as possible we recommend that you keep the temperature down to 40 degrees
centigrade as washing it at
higher temperatures will slowly desroy the natural "glue" that binds the fibres together.
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