Tie String Points

Sometimes the end will come off one of your tie strings. Sometimes you just want to turn cheap shoe laces into something that looks suitable to go with your LARP gear. But you need the little metal dealy thing that goes on there. Like the plastic shoelacey endy tube.

The word for that is "aglet".

Here is a bag of 10 of them.

Just some very useful string to replace the bits that may come off of your gambeson or armour during battle.

These are sold in lots of 6 tie strings.

It’s been a tiresome day of training, and you’ve been trapped inside your completely sweat soaked gambeson for the better part of eight hours. The last thing you need as you finally settle onto your cot is to mess with stubborn ties!

Thankfully your Dark Blue Tie Strings with Points make the lacing process simple, and you untie each individual tie with a quick pull. Within a minute your cloth armour hits the floor, and you can properly collapse onto your pillow. Phew!

Epic Armoury’s Dark Blue Tie Strings with Points is a set of six cloth aiguillette cords designed to easily thread through eyelets on your cloth costume. Each end is securely fastened to a brass tip that makes lacing a breeze, keeps the cloth from unraveling, prolongs the string’s lifetime use, and gives your costume a polished look. There are five available tie string colours, so feel free to match or contrast your strings with your costume! For example, use this Dark Blue version to replace the strings on your Tristan Vest, or change up the look on your Imperial Gambeson by adding a different colour to the seams. It’s a great way to make your costume a little more unique.

Available in colours Off-White, Epic Black, Dark Red, Dryad Green, and Dark Blue.

HISTORY

• This type of tie is considered an aiguillette, aiglet, or point due to its metal tip
• Points were used for practical and decorative reasons since the 16th century
• These ties would have been used to hold up armour and close seams along sleeves and jackets

There are stories being told about you amongst the soldiers. You are the mercenary who has slain over a thousand men. You put fear in your enemies with just a glance. Your aura of darkness freezes the hearts of anyone who looks you in the eye. And your favorite? Someone is saying you made a deal with a devil so that you may never die.

You will never tell them which might be true. Instead, as you sit in camp and wash the blood from your Gambeson, you simply listen...and smirk.

DETAILS

This bestselling Ready for Battle Gambeson is a padded armour coat covering the torso, abdomen, back and upper arms. It can be worn on its own or serve as essential padding under mail or armour. The gambeson is donned like a jacket and closed on the front with four leather straps with iron buckles.

Thick enough to serve as its own armour, this sturdy gambeson is constructed with heavy layers of fluffed cotton padding sandwiched between coloured heavy cotton, all stitched together in vertical lines. The stitching keeps the padding in place and mimics a classic European high-medieval style. The gambeson is open under the armpits to allow the wearer to breathe and have ease movement.

Though of European cut, gambeson or quilted-style armours have seen world-wide use since antediluvian times, making the Ready for Battle Gambeson a great basic armour with a range of possibilities regardless of time and place.

HISTORY

• Used as padding under chainmail or plate armour
• Historically, a high-medieval European gambeson was recorded as being capable of stopping sword blows from penetrating the skin
• Could stop heavy arrows and mace and axe impacts with the addition of overlaying chainmail

Available in one size, fits unisex small - large (best fits size medium).

Small Potion Holder includes 2 vials

Large Potion Holder includes 3 vials

Need to heal your party's tank quickly?

Make sure you always have some health potions on you with these handy accessories!

The acrid smell of solvent hangs in the air of your lab, mixing with the sweet and tangy perfume of oils and spices. You have been testing a new solution--when did you start? Was it this morning or yesterday? The work has taken such concentration you are uncertain just how long you have been locked away.

The moment of truth is upon you as you feed the pungent potion to your rat. It seems to like the taste, eager for another sample. That is a good sign! To your relief you see the potion’s desired effects. The rat begins to shrink.

A job well done, you fill three small vials and place them into your Potion Holder. These might very well come in handy.

DETAILS

Epic Armoury’s Potion Holder 2 Piece is a small unnoticeable bag for keeping potions safe while adventuring. The bag is made from tough plated split-leather folded around two small glass bottles with rubber stoppers, each capable of holding approximately 5 ml of fluid.

The bottles are held securely by leather pockets preventing them from making contact and breaking during combat or other rough play. Lock the pouch closed with a horn bar through a looped leather cord. The pouch can be attached to a belt via two belt straps fitted with brass studs, and will fit most Epic Armoury belts. For the adventurer who likes his or her healing potions intact, this Potion Holder is an essential part of any kit.

INSPIRATION

• Alchemy is a protoscience that contributed to modern chemistry and medicine, but unlike modern science, was rooted in mythology, magic, religion, and spirituality
• Alchemy could theoretically be used to create an Elixir of Life, restoring a person’s youth
• Alchemists believed in four elements: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water

Don't forget when you finally catch that thief to lock him up good!

... If only we sold stocks, too *whistful sigh* 

The streets are dangerous, overrun with criminals and ruffians. The only thing protecting the merchants and civilians is the Watch. You are a member of the Watch, and it is your duty to guard the regular citizens of your city.

At night you patrol the streets, your sword and a pair of Handcuffs ready. You protect the people who are not rich enough to hire their own bodyguards--it is your life’s calling to help.

DETAILS

Epic Armoury’s Handcuffs are a set of simple looking irons for locking the wrists together. Each solid metal cuff is made from darkened mild steel, connected by a strong metal chain that can be attached to the belt using a hook. A metal crossbar is used to lock each cuff shut.

To lock the cuffs, each bar is fitted with a simple lock. When adjusted, the lock allows the crossbars to move up or down the cuff in order to release or trap hands. These Handcuffs are a perfect detail or prop to add to a guard costume.

HISTORY

• The term handcuffs is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word, handcop (that which catches the hands)
• Reference to handcuffs have appeared as early as 4th century B.C.

Want that extra level of immersion?
Have thieves but no locks that are pickable thanks to modern locks actually being really well designed?
Nuts to the 20th century. Tumblers too. Here's an old school lock for you!

You hold your knife between your teeth, keeping it accessible while your hands are busy picking a noble’s unguarded luggage. Leaving anything valuable without a guard is like an invitation to steal it...at least that’s been your experience.

With a satisfying ‘click!’ the Metal Lock comes undone and you pry the chest open to reveal--oh, yes! That will do nicely. You pocket what looks to be a sizeable purse and a few interesting looking weapons, before carefully replacing the lock and sneaking out of the tent undetected.

DETAILS

Epic Armoury’s Lock Chest is a working, simple lock designed to secure a chest full of loot. Made from darkened mild steel, the lock consists of a solid metal arch set through a steel bar.

To use the Lock Chest, open or close it using a universal Allan-key in the lock located inside the steel crossbar. The lock is practical and simple in style and can match a variety of genres or settings. It is sized to fit anywhere a normal padlock is used.

HISTORY

• Locks have been used for at least 6 thousand years, with early versions made of wood
• The Greeks and Romans introduced iron locks during the 1st millennia B.C.