Viking warrior clothing

Nice scale-able patterns a bit of history but not to heavy a read. Easy to read through, a person with moderate sewing skills should not have any problems. A good secondary source.

Great stuff. Small book though.

being polite giving it two stars. while i knew it was 125 pages before ordering, i didn't realize that the "mostly for men" pattern book would consist of the first 19 pages being devoted to introduction, acknowledgements unneeded/unrelated photos, and over sized lettering for table of contents. much wasted space. perhaps i missed a point somewhere and it's really directed at the ten and under crowd as explanations aren't just "simple" they are glossed over, missing critical information, and in many instances "simply" wrong. a several page gloss of preparing skin to leather (again, missing steps and being impractical i.e. "you'll need a river next") takes space that could have been given to patterns for clothing (as the book seems to profess to be). as to those "patterns". viking leather pants cut in modern style with belt loops ala levis jeans? no indications of sizing, nor historic proportions and what tiny pattern pictures there are seem as gratuitous as the full page photos of the author's hind quarters and equally useless. there is also shoehorned into the slim book another 11 pages in the "men's pattern book" devoted to an equally nebulous approach to a woman's dress. two more pages give you "size charts" with no indication of units used so it could be cm or inches or ??? you get to assume things which is never good. the last six pages are wasted on single sentence per page photo credit, one more gratuitous non clothing related photo, THREE BLANK PAGES and on last one for "made in...." if you're looking to really make clothing form men in the era, skip this. if you want a GoT type books to give your 8 year old and have more money to spend than brains, well-- that's your choice

I really like this book. I will be able to make very good use of it. But it is NOT for the beginner sempster/sempstress, perhaps not even for the advanced beginner. You will need to know how to draft and size your own patterns. You really need to know how to read between the lines to make sense of some of the instructions. Make the pattern up first in a less expensive cloth/material, and use leather once you've tried something out in cloth first, and made necessary adjustments. Clearly, the translation was NOT reviewed by anyone who speaks English as their first language! I found this amusing, but another person might find it very irritating. As I have casually studied Old Norse, just for fun, some of the errors in English gave me a good chuckle. There was a great piece of advice about NOT putting the seams at the top of the shoulders in the leather tunic, to improve its water-repelling properties. I've done the same thing very successfully in a long wool "Norman"-style tunic for one of my sons, with good results. The models are attractive & the photographs are superb. The photos definitely evoke a strong Norse "feeling," which I appreciate. There are only 119 pages of text, and it is a half-sized book. I got it at a heavily discounted price; another person might well not consider it worth the $40+ price.

This book neither tells you how to draft a pattern for the clothes nor does it provide useable patterns. Book is pages are 5.5in by 8.5in, and the "multiple sized" patterns printed in the book on these half sized pages are utterly useless. Do not waste your money.

I was unpleased with the book. it is more a pocketbook. I expected something more for the price I paid. it has clear pictures and a fair amount of info in the book but as it was advertised I expect more patterns and of a useful size. I f you are a seamstress of high skill I'm sure it would be a useful book.

Cutting layouts are atrocious, information and documentation is dubious at best, and it's not meant for the novice sewer. Many pages are spent on the preparing of leather and steps to sew it into clothing, when there are NO verifiable viking age finds. I would give this book a pass. It's not meant for a novice, and an experienced tailor/seamstress would be better off with a book that showed what the finished product looked like, rather than wasteful layouts that waste good, expensive fabric.

My son is a very keen Viking re-enactor and this book is very useful as I seem to have "volunteered" to make his various costumes! However if the author produces another book I am quite happy to proof read it as the spelling is quite bizarre!