Braid & Trims

One of the highlights of many people's event schedules is the opportunity to go shopping. Trim merchants especially seem to draw large crowds of eager shoppers, and with good reason: they provide a relatively inexpensive analogue to those authentic medieval ornaments which would have been prohibitively expensive to make or purchase oneself. This article is for some discriminating early period trim shoppers with a northwestern European persona (Vikings, Franks, and early Saxons, this means you!).