LARP tabards
It's time to embrace your crest and your heritage. Wear your colours openly and with pride. Cause terror among your enemies. Be recognisable at all times to your friends and allies in battle. A surcoat from the Middle Ages fulfils this honourable task and shows which side you are on. This makes the tabard the equal of the flag.
If you appear at the next medieval LARP with armour and surcoat, you are sure to attract the attention of the other participants. It clearly shows how important you take yourself and your role.
A unique piece for you made of the best cotton
With a tabard from LARP FASHION, you can declare your allegiance to either the Knights Templar or the great noble families of the Middle Ages. Maybe you can even fulfil your dream of having your own coat of arms. Once you have chosen your basic pattern and model, we can embroider the desired design of your coat of arms. For this purpose, we offer you a colour combination for the tabard that best suits you and your coat of arms. Of course, the embroidery can also be made in magnificent multi-colours. Create your own unique surcoat and found your clan or your own house of the brave from the Middle Ages. We deliver the tunics in a size that is suitable for every figure. You can find more detailed information in the description of the individual articles in our online shop.
Tabards in the Middle Ages
Since the Crusades, the tabards or tunics have been the means of choice for making a statement about one's allegiance. This was urgently needed, because in the Middle Ages a knight could hardly be recognised by his armour alone. There was also another important factor. The sun in the Orient could burn hot. It quickly became unbearably warm in the armour. This extended to burns from the metal on the skin. So the tabard was usually worn over the armour. In the early and high Middle Ages, only knights and noblemen were allowed to wear surcoats. White or black with splendid decorations and of course the embroidered coat of arms in bright colours, the knights then led their foot soldiers into battle.
But even when riding without armour, the surcoat could be worn in the Middle Ages as a garment similar to the tunic. Before the era of nations and their flags, the coats of arms of the noble families were the only signs of affiliation. The time for uniforms was still a long way off in the Middle Ages. Uniform colours were only known on pennants, sashes or capes. These were then worn by squires, lansquenets or mercenaries. But in the Middle Ages, such luxuries were only available in the safe haven of the homeland. On the road on a military campaign or crusade in the Middle Ages, there was hardly any thought of such elaborate symbolic care for the garments.
What did coats of arms look like as garments in the Middle Ages?
Remembering their function as garments, surcoats were cut wide over the armour. While the surcoat was mostly plain in the early Middle Ages, the tendency towards ornamentation prevailed later. In addition to embroidery, the surcoats could then bear many other borders, trimmings or even fur trimmings. In the absence of modern cotton, surcoats were made of linen or densely woven wool. The now famous surcoat of the unknown knight in black was probably very rare at that time. Black was not suitable for protecting knights from the heat of the sun. It was not for nothing that the tabards and coats of arms of the Knights Templar and other knights of the Order in the Orient were white with the well-known red cross or lions. In terms of cut, surcoats in the Middle Ages probably took the form of a sleeveless tunic. Then they were held together with a belt.
An online shop that embroiders your garments!
Take advantage of this opportunity and our service at LARP FASHION. Besides the tabards, we can also embroider your coat of arms on shirts or capes. We can also embroider the leather on bags or doublets with your emblem. You will always find a reasonable price-performance ratio in our online shop. This applies to all our articles and accessories such as belts, clasps or buckles.
The medieval tunics are of course made of high-quality cotton. The embroidery is done with first-class thread. Take a look at the "tabard with embroidery horses", for example, and you will get an idea of the quality we deliver. When ordering your medieval surcoat, you can choose the colour or colour combination of the cotton. For example, choose black, white, black-red, black-white or green-white.
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If you would like to order an embroidery for yourself, please contact us. Then we can clarify the details. The contact will be easier and more pleasant if you open an account. You can do this automatically, e.g. with your Amazon contact details. Then we will ask you for the pattern, the colour, the size and the placement of your emblem. After that we can calculate the price. We will of course inform you how soon you can expect your own coat of arms on your cotton tunic. You can find more information about embroidery on this website. At the navigation point "Shop Service" you will find "Embroidery" as the last point. Find out more and we look forward to getting in touch with you.
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It's time to embrace your crest and your heritage. Wear your colours openly and with pride. Cause terror among your enemies. Be recognisable at all times to your friends and allies in battle. A surcoat from the Middle Ages fulfils this honourable task and shows which side you are on. This makes the tabard the equal of the flag.
Since the Crusades, the tabards or tunics have been the means of choice for making a statement about one's allegiance. This was urgently needed, because in the Middle Ages a knight could hardly be recognised by his armour alone. There was also another important factor. The sun in the Orient could burn hot. It quickly became unbearably warm in the armour. This extended to burns from the metal on the skin. So the tabard was usually worn over the armour. In the early and high Middle Ages, only knights and noblemen were allowed to wear surcoats. White or black with splendid decorations and of course the embroidered coat of arms in bright colours, the knights then led their foot soldiers into battle.
Take advantage of this opportunity and our service at LARP FASHION. Besides the tabards, we can also embroider your coat of arms on shirts or capes. We can also embroider the leather on bags or doublets with your emblem. You will always find a reasonable price-performance ratio in our online shop. This applies to all our articles and accessories such as belts, clasps or buckles.