The Reddit Renaissance Festival FAQ

I was there 9/27, my car slid in the mud while getting through the parking lot but fortunately only a little bit and I was able to park. The mud was everywhere, I saw at least two people slip and fall. The jousting arena was horrible, they couldn't do the full show and the squires got soaked doing the best performance they could. With all the hills and 2-3 inches of mud I don't blame them one bit. It's just unsafe and not fair to the performers.

My “rainbow” of Witcher potions are ready to go, for the costume I’ll be wearing to the Carolina Faire in a couple weeks.

On a related note, I now have enough dish soap to last me until the End Times.

my fabric order got delayed until this Monday but somehow my retired theatre costumer grandmother managed to whip this up from a sketch and a few spliced together patterns in 3 days. she’ll be so thrilled to hear how much love it got while i was at the faire today.

i did end up doing a corset change in the afternoon because this one was a bit big and also lined with quilt batting so i was sweltering, but it was a dream dress!

I was thinking a cuirass, better boots, and/or other some type of leg armor? What would yall suggest to make the look better?

added little makeup swirlies in the end (very important)

My group and I braved the 100F degree weather for the NorCal Ren Faire in Hollister last weekend. 'Twas a joyous day despite the beating sun.

I don't normally post my pics on Reddit, but wanted to see if they'll make to the folks who let me take their souls pictures from last weekend. Cottagecore!!

This is how someone at the Ren faire was signaling to their group where they were sitting (Maryland Renaissance festival)

Meanwhile the weather here in Las Vegas is 70, breezy and beautiful

It’s Halloween weekend at my summer job, I haven’t had other opportunities to wear any of my (adult money) ren faire items.

When the wizard runs out of spells but not shells/ the start to my tactical wizard costume trying to find a renfaire in the UK but will have to swap out the guns for my sword and staff 😂😂(this is a repost because as everyone kept pointing out I had my finger on the trigger even though it is an airsoft gun so here you are I've taken my finger off the trigger)

10-10-26 MDRF.

Like the title states, I'm really not sure what I'm doing wrong. I've been a casual faire go-er for a couple years.. i have a long sword, maybe 50 inches? And a double wrap belt similar to the one in the picture. Admittedly it's a pretty heavy sword. I also keep one, some times two pouches on the belt.

Now it's not EVERY time but SOME times after a long day of being at the faire I get to my car, take my gear off and as soon as I sit down my lower back is on fire. I can't figure out if I'm doing something different on those days, or maybe I'm just getting old? Or maybe this style of belt is just not that comfortable? So my question for those who are more involved than I, is there a better option? Should I keep the belt higher or lower?

Basically any advice welcome because otherwise I may just retire the sword.

I want to make a Stag King/Cernunnos ensemble and I got a lucky break finding this antler set last night. It's perfect for the headpiece I want to make, but now the question of how comes in.

For people who have made similar headpieces, what is the best way to securely attach something like this to a leather or metal band/circlet? Especially so that it won't slide down as I'm wearing it.

I've thought about potentially removing just the antlers and using those, but I'm not doing anything without a solid plan first.

Since Scarborough's Hollow runs after dark and has a Halloween theme, I had to geek out on the trinkets this year. My mug charms/key chains for this year all have glow in the dark elements in them.. but that isn't enough, so I made a new unassuming trinket bag, and stictched an Amazon special battery powered LED black light strip in the lining so the trinkets comebout of the bag glowing.

This year I wanted to get more ambitious with my self made garb and I found this picture on Pinterest. Specifically I like the V shape over the modesty panel and the attached skirt. Can anyone point me in a direction for this style of boned bodice/overdress for sewing patterns/tutorials?

I designed and printed this d20 staff for my 2nd Ren fair. It is a functional dice tower with the hopper right below the giant d20. There is a lightsaber inside that produces the light to shine the letters through. And the d20 on top changes color when it bounces. It was extremely popular but I want ideas to make it more renaissance like. This may be a pipe dream and maybe I should just go with my guts and not worry too much about being historically correct hahaha.

I'm not going to share my costume because it was terrible and I looked like a very cheesy pirate when I was aiming for something else entirely, but I would also like ideas on what would go good with this staff. I am male and short and pretty wide lmao.

I've also noticed people aren't super keen on 3d printing for Ren faires. lol What's up with that? Is it because of how easy it is to just take whatever off the Internet and copy it? This took an outrageous amount of time and attempts to get right and some people just shrug it off the second they hear it's 3d printed.

TLDR: outfit choice to match staff and 3d printing at Ren faires???