Handmade Medieval Toys At Bristol Renaissance Faire 2009

Chicago families visiting the Bristol Renaissance Faire can shop for handmade medieval toys that encourage imaginative play about magic and times past.

Bristol Renaissance Faire imaginative play

Designed to help visitors imagine that they have time traveled back to Elizabethan England, the Bristol Renaissance Faire lives up to its slogan (Where Fantasy Rules) with themed buildings and rides, costumed actors, and creative entertainment and interactive activities.

During their visit to the Renaissance, parents and children can tour the merchants in the Bristol Faire Marketplace to shop for lovely handmade artistic items and crafts that can be used as toys for imaginative play.

Children's medieval role-play toys

Visitors to this Elizabethan-era festival are invited to arrive already dressed for the part or to rent costumes once there. Parents can also purchase kid-sized costumes and accessories to dress their children up as fantasy, medieval, and renaissance characters.

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Choose Your Medieval Clothing Style To Attend A Medieval Wedding

Do you have an invitation to attend a medieval wedding? Don't know what should you wear? Before you spend time searching for costumes and purchase anything, you should first find out if the wedding style. Is the wedding style going to be a peasant style medieval wedding or lords and kings style medieval wedding? Showing up in different style and costumes would certainly be awkward.

The bride and groom may have a simple wedding ceremony outside in nature like a peasant and move on to a medieval feast like in a castle. In this case, you could choose and wear a costume that meets somewhat between the two classes, like well-to-do merchants, lesser nobles, royal knights, a lady-in-waiting, or else.

The couple may have an elaborate church wedding and then have their reception at some outdoor venue. Dressing down would be more appropriate. You can choose more fitting to the lower classes such as a serving wench, a lesser knight, or a villager.

Medieval Clothing styles changed with each generation. But, there are still some common elements through most of the styles.

The materials used for medieval clothing was heavier than it is today. If you plan on sewing your own costumes, keep in mind that pastel colors were outdated. The colors should be vibrant, rich and deep. Choose materials that contain deep blues, forest green, burgundies or chocolate browns.

Choose a suitable materials for the main outer garment such as velvet, brocade or damask. Take care in choosing the material pattern. Medieval clothing did not contain stripes, polka dots or small patterns. You can add leather laces, ribbons and other such ties to secure clothing. If you elect to wear peasant garb, choose attire made from linen, cotton or other materials so you will remain comfortable.

If you don't have much time to search around, maybe rent a medieval costume isn't a bad idea. However, it depends on your costume rental shop or a professional theatre whether they have some sort of medieval clothing that you wants. Your medieval costume selection may be limited. You can try purchasing a medieval costume online to save your time.