Where to shop
Where to buy the things you need.
Please note, these are my personal recommendations only and not paid endorsements.
I have found these people and places to be re-enactor friendly and stock good-quality items which I have bought for my own personal use. They may not stock everything required for every time period but are likely to be helpful as to where you could try.

EWAN GARDAM FABRICS 103 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City Phone 3831 3944 Stockist of 100% silk fabrics of all qualities and in a large range of appropriate medieval colours, 100% silk thread suitable for sewing or some kinds of embroidery (although not silk embroidery thread) and 100% silk gorgette suitable for veiling. All in stock all year round.

ASA & CONTARINA'S SMALL LUXURIES Contarina Casgrande SCA merchants stocking a range of pewter period reproduction dress accessories- pewter buttons, pewter pins, pewter belt clasps, pewter belt mounts and belt ends. Asa and Contarina have both been members of the SCA for over ten years.

FLAMING GARGOYLE POTTERY Alexander & Rhonda de Vos Studio specialising in medieval reproduction. Specialties are German salt-fired stoneware of the 15th-16th Century and 12th Century Sgraffito pottery from the Byzantine Empire. A range of Viking, Persian and English pottery is also produced. Custom orders are welcome and cheerfully accepted. All pots are reproduced in stoneware with the exception of the cookware. All pots are hand-made by Alexander de Vos.

JACKSON FURS STUDIO Cheryl Cambridge Level 4, 144 Adelaide Street, Brisbane, 4000 Stocking furs and pelts of all kinds, tails and full hides, fur and leather goods, full skins, leather hides, bunches of foxtails, mink tails etc, whole pelts. Remodelling, recycling or remaking service of old furs, cold storage, cleaning, protecting & treating, repairing & altering, assessing & valuation, transport of your fur and made to order.

the HORNMASTER John Pettigrew Specialist craftsman in horn. Horn goods including drinking horns and blowing war horns. John also sells bone and antler needles, bone combs and horn eating spoons. Beautifully made and excellent quality. All hand made by John himself using traditional methods.

PACKER LEATHER mail@packerleather.com 101-107 Boundary Road, Narangba, Queensland 4504 Ph: 3203 1323 Specialist stockist of coloured and plain leather and coloured suede in many grades and weights. Also stockists of leather hides and leather thonging in a variety of colours. Leather suitable for footwear, craft, gloving etc.

JACKIE BIRD'S WARDROBE Redbird Stanley 6 Ardisia Street, Smithfield, Queensland 4878 ph: (07) 4057 5775 Stockist of Cosmopolitan Crepe Wool composed of 95% wool 5% nylon with a weight of 390g/m2 and 100% Pure Wool Garberdine 150cm wide. Prices on the website quoted are per metre.

BRIBIE EMPORIUM Larissa Wilson Phone: Bongaree 3408 1036 or Woorim 3408 0477 Stockists of period reproduction shoes in many styles and high boots, reproduction period wax writing tablets, reproduction bone hinged eye-glasses fitted with magnifying lenses.

ABBEY MEDIEVAL COINS Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology Abbey Medieval Festival Marketplace, Caboolture. The Abbey Museum Brass Rubbing & Coin Making Stall allows patrons to mint their own medieval money with a hand struck coin minting stall. Come and strike your own coins.

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