Viking Age Clothing

We are now open again

Finally the webshop is open again. Welcome in and follow us on Instagram and/or Facebook. We want to invite you to follow us on a journey through time and inspire you to a knowledge based living history. Our focus is on the later part of the Scandinavian Iron age, the Vendel period and the Viking age, but we sometimes takes shorter detours into both earlier and later periods.

Do you want to look like a viking?

We at Viking Age Clothing help reenactors create plausible Viking age clothing by offering knowledge, materials and tools for different levels of ambition - always based on current scientific research.

Viking age reenactment grows more and more. To be able to contribute and participate in a world that feels like the Viking age we need clothes; clothes that make us look and feel like Vikings. That is want we want to help you with.

Welcome to our new webshop. Here you can find patterns, yarn, fabric and haberdashery. The goal is that you shall find everything you need to create a plausible Viking age outfit here. This means that you can expect new things to arrive.

We are based outside of Gothenburg in Sweden, but sell and ship all over the world.

Scandinavian Vendel Period Accessories

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When reconstructing Vendel period clothing we have ourselves been frustrated with how hard it is to find fibulae and other accessories. So far you have had to buy even simple common accessories as special orders. Now we have got the…

Who are we?

Hi, my name is Susanna Broomé and I run Viking Age Clothing with help from my family and friends.

I have been doing Viking age living history since the beginning of the 1990s and all this time my main interest has been clothing. I have read all scientific litterature I have been able to find within the area and made clothes based on that. The first version of my pattern was created already in the middle of the 1990s, to be followed but several updates.

I love to learn more, so I always keep an eye on news about Viking age clothing and textile handicrafts. During later years I have also focused on the Vendel period; the period before the Viking age. I find it even more exciting, with even fewer finds and more needs for guessing. My dream is to come as close as possible to how people looked and in that way wake a part of the past to life again.

We are now open again

News and Selected Products

Vendel Period Accessories

Natural Coloured Yarn and Fabric

Plant-Dyed Yarn and Fabric

Do you want to look like a viking?

Scandinavian Vendel Period Accessories

Who are we?