It's a pity I've got rid of my Medieval re-enactment kit.
When the Castle re-opens, one of the planned activities is to have medieval costumes on hand so that visitors can dress up, and a group of volunteers will be making the costumes over the winter months. They'd like anyone with sewing skills who is interested to get in touch at info@haycastletrust.org
They're also looking for interesting fabric to use - velvets, satins, and cottons in rich natural colours (going for the aristocratic costumes rather than peasants in wool and linen, it seems), and also trims like braid, pearls and gemstones.
The costumes will need to be pretty hard wearing, and machine washable so they're not going for total authenticity as a re-enactment group would do - the important thing here is the look of the thing.
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