Resources

Living History Groups

15th Century

• Lord Grey's Retinue 1471 England. The living history group that we participate with and is located in the Baltimore/DC Metro region that includes Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and other parts of Virginia.
• The Company of the Wolfe Argent 1467-1477. New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts, USA
• Well Assured and True Men A loose collection of late-15th century Re-enactors in the US. We are a group of friends who are highly spread out and lacked local groups to play with and help us get our kits together.
• Men of Warwick 1455-1485. Maryland, USA
• The Companie of Saynte George 1460-1480. Switzerland
• Magnus Kompanie Aufgebot Kassel 1470-1480. Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA
• The Order of the Rose Yorkist King Edward IV. Cincinnati Ohio, USA

14th Century

• La Belle Compagnie 1382. Washington D.C. Baltimore area, USA

11th Century

• Conroi FitzOsbern 1054 to 1071. Conroi FitzOsbern is an authenticity-focused medieval living history organization that portrays the household troops of William FitzOsbern.

10th - 11th Century

• Vikings NA - The Vikings! North America. There are several groups of Viking reenacters under the Vikings NA banner in America.

Clothing Suppliers

• Historic Enterprises
• Medieval Design

Footwear Suppliers

• Plantagenet Shoes
• Medieval Design

Jewelry and Buckle Suppliers

• Gaukler Medieval Wares - Amazing high quality rings and other jewelry plus brass items.
• Blackwood Jewellery - Good items in brass and silver
• Medieval Design - Brass buckles
• Thor Thors Hammer - Some nice brass buckles for many eras
• White Rose Castings UK - Great buckles, belt mounts, and purse hangers all in brass.
• Pewter Replicas UK - Useful jewelry and household items.
• Talbot's Fine Accessories - Has brass pieces from many eras.
• Billy and Charlie - Pewter badges
• Raymond Quietpress - Some good brass odds and ends.
• Anshelm Arms - Some good belts and buckles in brass.
• Historic Enterprises - Some good belts and jewelry.

Viking and Anglo Saxon Specific

• Northan - High quality bronze and silver products
• Danegeld - High quality bronze and silver products
• Mercia Sveiter - Bronze products. Also has odd and ends like sword chapes.
• Gaukler Medieval Wares - Dark Ages section has some nice selections
• Thor Thors Hammer - Some nice brass buckles for many eras
• Armour and Castings - Has god Rus buckles and belt studs
• Raymond Quietpress - Some good brass odds and ends.
• Talbot's Fine Accessories - Has a few choices

Household Wares

• Pewter Replicas UK - Some good pewter household items.
• Billy and Charlie - Pewter tableware
• Medieval Design - Good pewter tableware
• Ironwood Pottery Studios - Fantastic pottery
• Spanish Peacock - Beautifully made wooden household items

Armor Suppliers

• Robert R. MacPherson
• Historic Enterprises
• White Rose Armoury
• White Rose Apparel - Brigandines
• Best Armour
• Thaden Armory
• Forth Armoury - Maille and maille making supplies

Swords and Arms Suppliers

• Albion Armorers - The "generation 2" line from Albion is regarded as some of the best swords around.
• Arms and Armor - Truly excellent equipment.
• Lutel - Makes some excellent pollarms, swords, and daggers.
• Armour Class - Make some nice swords including a decent falchion.
• Paul Binns - Top notch reenactment blunt blades.
• Mark Morrow Black Smith - He will forge just about anything, tools, swords, pollarms, and daggers.
• Arma Bohemia - Some nice looking swords and pollarms.
• Tod's Stuff - Nice Knives and eating utensils, a few good swords including a falchion.
• Viking Shield - For North Americans, James carries some Armor Class and Paul Binns weapons in stock and can order any Del Tin you want in a matter of weeks. .

Archery Suppliers

• Ancient Archery - Good ash bows, linen bow strings, and arrows.
• Historic Enterprises - Arrows, a good selection of arrowheads, arrow bags, and bow bags.
• Rubber Bow Archery - A decent starter ash bow.

Tent Suppliers

• Tentsmiths - Willing to do custom orders.

Fabrics

Linen

• Fabrics - Store.com - Awesome linen at a good price.
• Fashion Fabrics Club - Great linen quality

Wool

• Woolrich Fabrics - Great selection but not the lowest prices; if you need a specific color they likely have it.
• Fashion Fabrics Club - Often has good light weight wools in stock
• BBlack and Sons - Good coat weight wool.
• Denver Fabrics - Good rotating stock.
• Fabric.com - Hit or miss on their stock.
• Hamilton Dry Goods - Email first, they don't update their site often.
• Carolina Calicoes - They have more than is on their website. Email them for what they have is stock. Warning they travel allot and are slow to email back sometimes.

Hemp

• Hemp Traders

Silk

• Rupert, Gibbon & Spider, Inc.
• Thai Silks
• Dharma Trading Co.

Dyes

• Dharma Trading Co.

Linen and Real Gold Threads

• Hedgehog Handworks
• Threadneedle Street