Clothing & Textiles
Wool and linen garments cut from finds and depictions, hand-finished, dyed with period-appropriate methods.
Historical reconstruction
Understanding history through the objects people made
Reconstruction is not costume play. It is the study of material culture through research and practical recreation — and it is unforgiving of guesswork.
An object made properly teaches things a photograph cannot: how long a seam takes, how mail sits on the shoulders after four hours, why a particular buckle shape survives in the ground in such numbers. This is experimental archaeology in the ordinary sense — knowledge produced by doing.
We work from archaeological reports, museum collections, manuscript illumination, inventories and comparable finds across Rus', Poland, Lithuania, Hungary, Bohemia and the Baltic. Where the evidence is thin, the reconstruction is labelled as an interpretation rather than presented as fact.
Fields of work
What we rebuild
Armour
Mail, lamellar, brigandine and plate elements, built to the weights and proportions of surviving pieces.
Weapons & Shields
Blades, hafted weapons and painted shields reconstructed from archaeological and iconographic evidence.
Metal & Leather
Forging, casting, buckles and fittings; shoes, belts, scabbards and cases made by hand.
Camp & Everyday Life
Tents, cookware, furniture, lighting and the ordinary objects that make a camp historically legible.
Method & Documentation
Every reconstruction is documented: the evidence used, the choices made, and the gaps we could not close.
Living history
The camp is the laboratory
At festivals and heritage sites we build a working medieval camp: cooking over fire, textile and woodworking benches, weapons maintenance, music and dance in the evening. Visitors are welcome to ask anything — the people in the camp are the same people who made the objects in it.
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