Our linen is pre-washed, pre-shrunk and pre-ironed. 2XL Up to 58 inch (148cm) chest / waist. XL - Up to 50 inch (127cm) chest / waist. L - Up to 45 inch (115cm) chest / waist. M - Up to 41 inch (104cm) chest / waist. S - Up to 35 inch (89cm) chest / waist.
Size guide & washing instructions listed below. Custom sizes / colours can be made too, so please email us if you have a request. Main image shows a large tunic on a 40 inch (102cm) chest. M, L & 2XL SIZES IN STOCK (All other sizes made to order in 6-8 weeks). >Made from natural linen with all visible seams hand-stitched. Available in sizes S to 2XL, but custom sizes can be made. These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-island (Lindisfarne), by rapine and slaughter.” – The Anglo Saxon ChronicleHandmade natural linen Viking tunic (belt & pouch not included). This year came dreadful fore-warnings over the land of the Northumbrians, terrifying the people most woefully: these were immense sheets of light rushing through the air, and whirlwinds, and fiery dragons flying across the firmament. Read more about Viking culture in our From the Pen of History article: The Gift of a Shirt Consequently, many similarities of cut and fit exist between late Roman era Germanic dress and Viking era, Scandinavian clothes, until very late in the period. The period leading to the Viking Age was a conservative one, with localized cultures and limited trade. Silk, as an extremely rare, luxury fabric, was only used for small trim or accents. Linen was the most fabric for clothing, followed by a variety of different weight wools used for overtunics, cloaks and overdresses. Regardless of which of these cultures one portrays, there are a number of common truths for Northern European fashion in this period.
Our new Viking Age product line will be continuously growing with representations of the fashions of the Norse, Anglo-Saxons and Normans civilizations of this period. To the east, they set themselves up as the rulers of Russian Kiev, pressed into Anatolia and took service as the famed Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Emperors.
In the late 8th century, Scandinavian sea-pirates sacked the island monastery of Lindisfarne, heralding in the so-called Viking Age, a term applied to the eighth through eleventh centuries, in which Norsemen traders and raiders, explored Europe, and settled in Normandy, Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland, and Vinland. These tremendous tokens were soon followed by a great famine: and not long after, on the sixth day before the ides of January in the same year, the harrowing inroads of heathen men made lamentable havoc in the church of God in Holy-island (Lindisfarne), by rapine and slaughter." - The Anglo Saxon Chronicle The neck hole is a distinctive, square shape with a front center-slit, while the sleeves are cut straight for a more fitted line around the wrist and forearm.Ībout our Viking Age / Early Medieval Line
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Examples include the shirts pictured in Anglo-Saxon Tiberius Calendar, the Bayeux Tapestry, that worn by Cnut in the Liber Vitae and Thorkell in the Eadui Psalter The Revival Viking Tunic is cut straight through torso with many gores to create a full skirted bottom hem. We have based our Viking Age tunic on a number of 11th century sources, showing the growing influence of southern European dress.
In cooler weather, tunics could also be layered for warmth, with a wool tunic, often covering a linen shirt and a linen tunic. At times, the distinction between shirt and tunic blurred, with the latter being most notable for being made of undyed linen. But in reality, a proper, early Medieval tunic is a far more sophisticated garment, with full skirts and a tapered sleeve. One of the most ubiquitous garments for new reenactors is the so-called T-tunic.
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