Drakos Dottir

Thank you Glastonbury Abbey Medieval Fayre and all who came to visit!

It was by all accounts the busiest and most fantastic one yet!!

Thank you everyone who came by the stall and said hi and wanted textiles kits. Go forth and ! It's always a pleasure to help in a small way on people's textiles journeys- and help keep alive and well.

Thank you to the amazing ground team who as always helped us at every turn to navigate the weekend with great comradery.

And a massive thank you to the . I never feel like I have enough time with you all- I'm so grateful for everything you've helped me with over the past few years - from putting up a tent to helping me not feel so desperately alone at times. You are absolute legends and I hope you all have a great season.

I'm taking a break from events this year while I settle into Dorset life with my beloved and a job I just ❤️- and hope to refocus on the thing that made me a trader in the first place: a noice bit of weaving.

Thank you for supporting and every time you purchase something hand crafted you take home all the hours of love and attention gone into that object.

Blessed be 🙏 xx Jen

Met my hero today 😍😎

The inspiring, talented and benevolent Shelagh Lewins was walking around the Artisans and Reenactors Market (day 2) and we talked everything tablet weave and re-enactment.
I thanked her for her websites and the gift of tablet weaving resources to people starting out.

What a legend.

Such an honour and I hope this won't be the last time.

The continues at the Warwickshire Events Centre on Sunday 17th 10am until 4pm.
Come and stock up on all your re-enactment, LARP and cosplay kit for the season ahead.

Such fun! 😁

Excellent heritage craft courses where I work!

Beautiful kitty photo for effect! This is Red where I discovered her "looking after" some wool fabrics... no one wants Red fluff on their kit Red!!!

Now you're all looking 😄 it's March and that means count down to the Artisans and Reenactors Market from midday 15th March and all day 16th and 17th.

It's an honour to be part of a market with such great makers of fine reenactment replicas, LARP and Cosplay outfits and everything inbetween including food and drink! PLUS lots of kit pieces for you to be making your own outfits.

Remember to visit our maker friends at TORM as well - only a 10 minute drive away.

I'll be there with tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits, hoods, tunics, dresses and lots of hats!
PLUS I'm making some natural dye examples for those of you who'd like something on a living history display but don't have time to do it.

Thank you re-enactment community for your continued friendship and support - it means so much to a one-person maker such as myself that I have Viking friends all over the UK and beyond! What an honour ❤

See you there!

Countdown to Jorvik 10th Century Market 16th-18th February 2024!

In the Merchant Adventurers Hall

My first trading event of the year and we can't wait to go up North and see all you lovely folks.
I have tunics, dresses, hoods and hats as per usual - plus some fancy hats with fur trim! Nice! Plus some messenger style bags ready to hide your modern accoutrements at the re-enactment.

Plus kits! Create your own colours with my natural dyeing kit and my ready-to-weave tablet weaving kits are suitable for beginners upwards. They make a great present for your craft-hoarding friends!

We can't wait to see the as well. Hope to see you there.
Jen

My deepest and most heart-felt sympathies to Barbara and family on the passing of Rick the Elder. My thoughts with Ormsgard Dark Ages Re-enactment as they are one of the most caring and friendly groups I have met and I know how deeply each of them will be affected.
With all my love
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A very Happy New Year to you all.

I hope that you've had a restorative festive season whatever you got up to and whoever you spent it with.

I'm so very grateful to all customers since I started making for others in 2017. You've trusted me with your outfits, leg wraps. tablet weaving, and the occasional group flag! It's been a real journey. Thank you for trusting me with your goods and giving me the chance to put things right if needed.

I never take your purchases for granted as there are plenty of other places you could be spending your hard-earned money.

In 2024 I am at 4 events to sell my textiles and I've put them as events onto my page.

I'm hoping to expand my range into "instant" Living History items, such as a rainbow of Viking naturally dyed colours, and kits to help you complete heritage textiles items... watch this space!

I will be taking only a few orders a year so I can concentrate on my other job at the fantastic Ancient Technology Centre. If I work in a Longhouse am I a real Viking?!
Plus re-enacting with the Vikings UK family - I can't wait.

See you in a field/ hall/ castle somewhere in 2024.

Love and light.
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Jen

Thank you all customers.

Especially those that have supported me for many years.

I'm beyond grateful and wouldn't be here without you.

Photo of Cuthbert the Portland sheep

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Kits are go!

For a unique christmas gift check out my Etsy shoppe.

https://drakosdottir.etsy.com

- tablet weaving kits (all warped up and ready to weave with full instructions)
- natural dye kit (with enough wool to make a project with the finished results)
- fire strike kits (with historic flint and steel)

A great addition to your kit whether you are LARP or SCA or part of a re-enactment group.

Makes a great present!

Look at the Etsy shop listings for more options and details.

THE FINAL DAY OF THE ARTISANS AND REENACTORS MARKET!
SUNDAY 19th November 2023
LARPers, Cosplay, Reenactors and History-bounders of all ages – this market is for YOU!
Wherever and whatever you decide to dress up as at the weekend you WILL find something for you at the Artisans and Reenactors Market and the Warwickshire Events Centre, Fosse Way.
Opening times
Friday 17th November 12pm-6pm
Saturday 18th November 10am – 5pm
Sunday 19th November 10am -4pm
PLUS a great market for all kinds of CHRISTMAS GIFTS from food and drink to antique items, jewellery, fabric, clothing, tools, books and much more!
I will be selling wool and linen tunics and dress in some range of size, length and fabrics.
AND
Lots of tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits and fire strike kits – all ideal for gifts for yourself or your crafting and reenactment friends and family!
I also have a large range of hats based on Birka type A and B and Leens pill box hats – some pale and plain wool, some bright, herringbone and fur-edged.
Duane and I will be on the stall and we’d love to see you guys – come and support the traders!
Also if you are able to make it to the other market TORM it is on at the same time as our market, and only a 10 minute drive away! You can do both markets easily in one day.
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DAY TWO of the Artisans and Reenactors Market
Starts at 10am today until 5pm.

17th-19th November 2023
LARPers, Cosplay, Reenactors and History-bounders of all ages – this market is for YOU!
Wherever and whatever you decide to dress up as at the weekend you WILL find something for you at the Artisans and Reenactors Market and the Warwickshire Events Centre, Fosse Way.
Opening times
Friday 17th November 12pm-6pm
Saturday 18th November 10am – 5pm
Sunday 19th November 10am -4pm
PLUS a great market for all kinds of CHRISTMAS GIFTS from food and drink to antique items, jewellery, fabric, clothing, tools, books and much more!
I will be selling wool and linen tunics and dress in some range of size, length and fabrics.
AND
Lots of tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits and fire strike kits – all ideal for gifts for yourself or your crafting and reenactment friends and family!
I also have a large range of hats based on Birka type A and B and Leens pill box hats – some pale and plain wool, some bright, herringbone and fur-edged.
Duane and I will be on the stall and we’d love to see you guys – come and support the traders!
Also if you are able to make it to the other market TORM it is on at the same time as our market, and only a 10 minute drive away! You can do both markets easily in one day.
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The Artisans and Reenactors Market 17th-19th November 2023
OPEN TODAY AT NOON!!!!
LARPers, Cosplay, Reenactors and History-bounders of all ages – this market is for YOU!
Wherever and whatever you decide to dress up as at the weekend you WILL find something for you at the Artisans and Reenactors Market and the Warwickshire Events Centre, Fosse Way.
Opening times
Friday 17th November 12pm-6pm
Saturday 18th November 10am – 5pm
Sunday 19th November 10am -4pm
PLUS a great market for all kinds of CHRISTMAS GIFTS from food and drink to antique items, jewellery, fabric, clothing, tools, books and much more!
I will be selling wool and linen tunics and dress in some range of size, length and fabrics.
AND
Lots of tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits and fire strike kits – all ideal for gifts for yourself or your crafting and reenactment friends and family!
I also have a large range of hats based on Birka type A and B and Leens pill box hats – some pale and plain wool, some bright, herringbone and fur-edged.
Duane and I will be on the stall and we’d love to see you guys – come and support the traders!
Also if you are able to make it to the other market TORM it is on at the same time as our market, and only a 10 minute drive away! You can do both markets easily in one day.
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Countdown to the Artisans and Reenactors Market 17th-19th November 2023
LARPers, Cosplay, Reenactors and History-bounders of all ages – this market is for YOU!
Wherever and whatever you decide to dress up as at the weekend you WILL find something for you at the Artisans and Reenactors Market and the Warwickshire Events Centre, Fosse Way.
Opening times
Friday 17th November 12pm-6pm
Saturday 18th November 10am – 5pm
Sunday 19th November 10am -4pm
PLUS a great market for all kinds of CHRISTMAS GIFTS from food and drink to antique items, jewellery, fabric, clothing, tools, books and much more!
I will be selling wool and linen tunics and dress in some range of size, length and fabrics.
AND
Lots of tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits and fire strike kits – all ideal for gifts for yourself or your crafting and reenactment friends and family!
I also have a large range of hats based on Birka type A and B and Leens pill box hats – some pale and plain wool, some bright, herringbone and fur-edged.
Duane and I will be on the stall and we’d love to see you guys – come and support the traders!
Also if you are able to make it to the other market TORM it is on at the same time as our market, and only a 10 minute drive away! You can do both markets easily in one day.
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Drakos in print!

It's been a great honour to be interviewed for two publications recently - both for different audiences - both history themed.

The brilliant Lauren Grierson from Little Historians Magazine asked me about portraying a weaver at Saxon and Viking reenactments. I've worked with kids for nearly 25 years now and I still love teaching in all its forms. I spoke with Lauren in character about the daily chores of Saxon and Viking life as well as some quirky facts about wash-days!

My fantastic boss at the ATC Andy Stevens is writing for Living Medieval l and interviewed me as a tutor, reenactor and trader. All inextricably linked and every day is a Viking day!

Not forgetting my gate-crashing into Craig Brook's Saxon Forager podcasts with Duane and lots of yummy food!

My re-enactment journey has 100% brought me into the jobs I do now and introduced me to numerous people in the and .
Most of all my wonderful Duane ❤.

Hopefully I'll see lots of you at the Artisans and Reenactors Market next week!

Return of the kits... 3! Fire strike kit.

These kits are a fantastic present for your bush-crafting, wilderness camping and of course... Viking friends!

The fire strike kit contains
- a fire steel
- a piece of flint
- charcloth to catch your spark
- straw to generate flames

I only have a limited number of these and they are available in the first instance at the Artisans and Reenactor's Market, 17th-19th November at the Warwickshire Events Centre.
Then they will be put on my Etsy shop in good time for Yule gifting!

If you are able please support all up-coming markets.

More products coming soon - I have been working on hats, tunics, trousers, linen and wool bags, tablet weaving kits, natural dye kits and more!

Return of the kits #2 Tablet weaving kits!

These were so popular at the last Artisans and Reenactors Market that I sold out in a day!
This time I have made MORE kits in MORE colours -
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Wooden tablets and weaving shuttle AND strung up ready to weave with FULL instructions on how to start again and where to look online.

Interpretations of TWO 9th century Viking Age designs in wool and period appropriate colours. Each kit will produce enough weaving for a thin belt or embellishing the collar of a tunic.

They make great gifts!

See you at the Market on 17th, 18th and 19th November at the Warwickshire Events Centre.

Return of the kits!

In a workshop far... far... away....

WOOL CRAFT!
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It has been nearly a year since wool, plant and mordant were gathered in sufficient number for natural dyeing.
Since people began to want they have wanted something brighter, bigger and better than them next door.
Through a perseverance of harvesting, weighing and winding the team (Duane ❤) bring you a kit with full instructions and advice for this and future natural dyeing!

There is 75g of Aran-weight wool in 3 skeins and 3 dye types to try out.
This is over a hundred metres of wool for a belt or bag handle or whatever project you desire. The plant fibres are madder, walnut bark and birch bark, producing red, brown and orange tones. All Dark-Age re-enactment appropriate colours!

Available to buy in the first instance at The and Reenactors Market in November 2023. Come find my stall and say hi!
Remember to visit and support our in all markets as the other one is a very short drive.

Any not sold will go onto Etsy straight after the market - makes a great Yule gift!
Have a great day everyone. 😄

Next weekend at The Ancient Technology Centre

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