Coats

This coat was made of handwoven wool (I found a roll of genuine Harris Tweed for an affordable price on Ebay.  The fabric came with an "authentic Harris Tweed" cloth tag, which I sewed into the lining of the coat for fun). This coat is lined with linen and trimmed with sari silk.  All the visible seams were handsewn. It was for a fighter who had just been squired.  This pattern is not made from the Norse coat pattern above, it used a pattern for an Eastern-European deel with inset sleeves. 

A friend gave up the better part of an entire day of her Gulf Wars to pick me up from the train, take me food shopping, and get me settled.  I made her this coat to thank her. This coat did use the pattern by Duchesse Sabine.

Diamond twill wool outer, linen lining, couched yarn embellishment, all visible seams handsewn.  This fabric was so delicious to work with. I have since learned that this lozenge-twill was hardly ever woven by the  Norse and instead broken twill was a more likely weave, see an excellent description on the blog of loremother Álfrún ketta called Elf, here.

This is a copy of Ardoddr's elevation coat, because Richard of Knotwolf Armory in Calontir said he liked it. It's nice when a triple-bestowed-peer likes your work enough to want to barter--and also a little nerve-wracking!

I made this coat from a wool herringbone remnant, using what I knew about Norse coat construction from the other coats above. The coat is unlined, a product of rage-sewing on a day when I was upset about things happening on the internet. It was impulsive, unplanned and uses lots of non-period shortcuts, but it's the one I wear the most and I get more compliments on it than the others. I wove the Birka 6 trim for this coat, using this pattern from Weave Along with Elewys.