Sale “Ragnvaldur the Traveller” Viking Leather Vest

Viking inspired fantasy leather body armour for LARP

Sale number: an-569

Please note, all items from the “Closeouts” section are not eligible to exchange and refund, so please be careful when choosing a size, and buy consciously. Thanks for your understanding!

We designed this leather vest with lighter forms of combat, such as LARP in mind. It provides your torso with a decent amount of coverage while still remaining nice and flexible, and not restricting you nearly as much as a breastplate or heavy shirt of chain would. This vest hasn’t been inspired by any particular historical prototypes or patterns, and is the creation of our talented designers. We imagine it fits well into the “fantasy viking” aesthetic, which is very popular in less historical medieval subcultures!

There is absolutely no metal on this piece apart from the cast brass buckles, which close it up the center of the vest. It’s made of 100% leather, and is sewn together with leather thonging. We’ve constructed it to have two layers of leather: a top layer of squares, inspired by lamellar (though very different to traditional lamellar), and a bottom layer of solid leather. The squares are all hand sewn with leather thonging, and look fantastic! While we appreciate this historical touch, we also made use of a modern convenience: to make sure everything is extra strong, we used some glue to make sure everything stays in place in the heat of combat. Thonging securely attaches the vest at the back to shoulder straps, which are comfortable and come to a close with buckles at the front.

All of the buckles have been accented with viking knot work embossing, adding a little touch of beauty to this otherwise simple piece of kit. The leather we’ve made this out of is flexible but still very, very thick and robust, and holds the embossing very well. It has lacing at the sides and allows up to 10 cm (4'') size adjustment gap.

Please note that while this item does come in fixed sizes, we are open to the possibility of making it custom sizes as well. Please refer to our sizing chart to understand our sizes, and get in contact if you’d like to discuss this further.

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