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What are good websites for SCA Garb?

More specifically for Norse and not incredibly complicated.I need actual patterns. I’ve got an event in may and I need to make some garb for myself as well as my significant other and I don’t have any anymore

Hi!

For an overview, start with Hustwic, http://www.hurstwic.org/history/articles/daily_living/text/clothing.htm, they have one of my favourite sites for this kind of info.

Also check out www.vikinganswerlady.com (Mistress Gunnora from Ansteorra), or www.regia.org (Regia Anglorum – they do Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Norman).

I make my dresses and my husband’s tunics using Maggie Forest’s approach to T-tunics (“T-Tunic the Period Way”). It’s all based on using triangle and rectangles and has the added benefits of being not terribly complicated and demonstratably period:

http://www.forest.gen.nz/Medieval/articles/Tunics/TUNICS.HTML

A couple other approaches making this basic garment:

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/index.php?s=&c=8&d=141&e=&f=&g=&a=126&w=2

http://www.virtue.to/articles/tunic_worksheet.html

However, if you lack time, here a “quick & dirty” approach:

http://www.sca.org.au/politarchopolis/library/tunic.php

Here is the pattern I use for my top layer, the Norse “Apron Dress” (aka, “hanging dress”, “suspended dress”, “hangerock” or “tragerrock”):

http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/mjc/sca/aprond.html

Here are a bunch of other ideas how to do it:

http://www.tjurslakter.nl/viking%20apron-dress.pdf

Here is Thora Sharptooth’s article on Norse (“viking”) tunics:

http://gersey.tripod.com/history/tunic.html

Here’s an article instructions for both Tunic & Pants (for men):

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bill/handbook/tunic.html

This site has a fairly simply trouser pattern:

http://www.larp.com/legioxx/coldcloth.html

Try to use wool or linen, if you can; avoid poly-cotton broadcloth. I’ve used a lot of linen-cotton blends for both my husband & brother’s garb. It’s not a strong as 100% linen, but it looks right. If you can find silk noil for a decent price, it’s not really *authentic*, but it looks right. Just be forwarned that it bleeds in the laundry. Pre-wash it before you cut it out and always wash it with similar colours.

As for colour, the Norse had a strong preference for blues and greens (the Irish even sometimes refered to them as the “Gormglas” which means “blue-green” in Gaelic). Other colours that have been found in Norse archeology include walnut-browns, natural black/charcoal (from wool from sheep that colour), yellow, red (brick red more than fire engine red) and purple.

Have fun at at your event, and it you’re ever at Pennsic, drop by the Rowanhall camp (at the bottom of Runestone Hill) and say hi.

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