| | | | Welcome to By The Sword, Inc. for your Medieval Swords, Medieval Clothing, Renaissance Clothing, Leather Armour, LARP Gear, Chainmail, Helms, Costumes and Gifts. |
| Fine Quality Medieval and Renaissance Reproductions for the Serious Collector, Reenactor and Live Action Role Player.We've been serving collectors and re-enactors since 1990 and been Online since 1995! |  |
|  | | Fine Quality Medieval and Renaissance Reproductions for Serious Collectors and Reenactors! | | As one of the oldest online merchants of Medieval Swords, Medieval and Renaissance Clothing, Leather and Functional Steel Armour and LARP Gear; By The Sword Inc. has supplied Collectors, Reenactors and LARP (Live Action Role Playing) groups with high quality Battle Ready Swords, Chainmail, Helms, Shields Medieval Jewelry and Roman Gear.Medieval and Renaissance items for your fun and enjoyment as well as re-enactment's and historical needs. Whether your interest lies in swords, sabers, armour, medieval weapons, medieval clothing, the SCA, LARP, fantasy, Vikings, the Crusades, Hundred years war, Wars of the Roses or even the US Civil war, you will be able to find just the right piece!We can outfit Roman legions, Celtic, Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Knights, Squires, "Live steel" Re-enactors, Stage actors as well as Living History and LARP Groups. We carry items to stock your castle for siege or tournament! Decorate your hall, home, office or even your castle dungeon with our Shield and Sword displays, Medieval Weapons, Full suits of Armour, Chains & Chastity Belts or, if you prefer choose from our many Oriental swords and Weapons! From the battle field to the joust to living history. By The Sword, Inc. has something for everyone! |  |
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| | The Largest and Most Reliable Sword Site On The Net! | | We search high and low to find the highest quality replicas available at the best prices, in an effort to bring you more pleasure from your collecting or re-enacting. We offer many different "museum quality" replicas which are as near to the originals as possible, as well as re-enactment equipment that is made to perform.Aside from our standard items, we carry many products that are hand made at the time of order by Master Craftsmen, many of which come with accolades from museums or historic societies which serve testament to their workmanship, and years of research and study go into each piece they offer. |
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| | | | You will find in our catalog... | | Accessories like arm and wrist bracers, Leather gauntlets, quality pouches and purses. Our re-enactment accessories include medieval eating utensils, roman camp gear, walking staffs and canes even wigs and more.We carry archery supplies, forged medieval arrowheads, historic and fantasy arrows, children's bows, crossbows and medieval longbows.All types of armour, larp armour, SCA armor, leather armor and armor for live steel fighting. Standard sizes and the finest custom-made armour, children's armour and decorative suits of armour, and even articulated miniature suits of armour; mini Samurai, 15th century Milanese armour and miniature knights. We have the best selection for Chainmail armor available. We carry mail from the roman period to medieval and renaissance. Our chain-mail hauberks, coifs, mantles and chauses come in a wide variety of finishes. Don't forget our chain mail gauntlets.Fine medieval military art prints as well as custom medieval portraits and assorted medieval greeting cards. Books and videos about sword fighting from oriental and European martial arts as well as historical interest books on Greece and Rome, battles, arms and armour, the crusades, castles, knights Vikings and others. We even have books on medieval music instruction, learn to play the bagpipe! Music CD's of medieval music.The best selection of Medieval and Renaissance Clothing on the net. We carry, padded arming caps and gambesons to protect you from your armor. Quality leather Belts, capes and hats, hoods, snoods scarves and veils to help dress up your persona. Men's medieval gowns, cotehardies vests as well as shirts pants and hosen. Dress as Friar Tuck or Robin Hood, with our legends of Sherwood collection. We carry plenty of different types of Monks robes, and surcoats for the knights even peasant outfits. Lots of children's clothing including shirts pants bodices, shirts and chemises even many children's sets. For the ladies we offer a staggering selection of women's renaissance and medieval clothes. How about renaissance bodices with matching skirts, or chemises and corsets to wear underneath our tons of flattering historic dresses. If you don't wish to be a proper lady of the court try one of our wench wear outfits and go to faire as the innkeeper's daughter. We also carry a large line of costumes for adults and children such as fantasy, gothic and vampire as well as pirate costumes, wizards, witches and of course Medieval and renaissance costumes.In our collectibles section you can find Historical sculptures from Roman soldiers, to Medieval knights to warriors of Japan and even American heroes. We also have chess sets, miniature cannons, and letter openers. Our letter opener section has hundreds of different kinds of letter openers and mini swords, from Denix, CAS Iberia, Art Gladius and Hanwei for example. For history buffs, how about western badges authentic Napoleonic weapons and for you seafarers pirate weaponry.Daggers? You want em we got em, page after page of battle ready daggers, dirks, knives as well as non sharp decorative daggers and medieval daggers that are blunted or rebated for re-enactment or live steel fighting.We offer a huge selection of fantasy weapons and armor for use as decorations or LARP events and Cons. We carry many movie replicas such as Blade, Xena, Conan, and many from fantasy artist Kit Rae (Swords of the Ancients Collection). Of course our most famous collection of fantasy merchandise would be from JRR Tolken's The Lord of The Rings.Firearm Replicas - non-firing replicas are accurately detailed and provides a great collector and conversation piece, including Civil War muskets and rifles, western pistol replicas, flintlock pistols and miniatures.A great selection of historic footwear is available at By The Sword, Inc. - Living history footwear, knee boots, ladies boots and shoes plus tall boots, medieval boots, renaissance boots, Viking shoes and even Roman Sandals. Pirate boots can be found here, like Captain Morgan boots.You can find many decorative items at our company such as our hybrid armour, gothic items, colorful banners, and shields. If you would like to decorate you castle with dungeon ware, we have leg irons, handcuffs and medieval locks, not to mention leather whips and cat-o-nine tails. Windstone makes wonderful statues of dragons and wizards, bookends and candle lamps to light up your home.We stock a full line of battle ready and decorative helms or helmets. Even special types of helms like SCA combat helms or live steel combat helms are in our catalog. The helms range from standard helms to custom sized helms. We carry authentic Roman imperial italic centurion and gladiator helmets as well as Celtic, Viking, Saxon and Norman types of spangenhelms. Early medieval period helms like the great helm, pigfaced basinet, crusader helms and more. The 15th century saw many types of different helmet styles as in the Barbuta, German sallet are right up to the close helm and into the renaissance burgonets. Although small in number we have some very authentic and fully functional Japanese helms from Hanwei, which consist of the Kabuto, Mempo and helmet stand. Any budget can be accommodated as we sell inexpensive to made to order helms of the finest quality.Jewelry items include bracelets, brooches, chains and charms, medieval style earring and anklets, hair accessories and plenty of pendants and necklaces. Mostly medieval jewelry is available however we do offer a variety of gothic and Celtic jewelry many in sterling silver.Our knife selection is chock full of inexpensive to quality collector knives, including skinners, tactical knives, WWII, hunting knives, bowie knives and boar hunter knives. We even carry blade blanks for you to build your own custom knife.LARP or live action role playing re-enactors can find plenty of gear to satisfy their needs. We offer Steel armour, quality leather armor and even hybrid larp armour made from hybrid polyurethane. This armor is perfect for LARP events as it is very tough, yet lightweight and comfortable to wear, semi-flexible and will not corrode. We provide every kind of armour from fantasy orc armor to authentic looking medieval and renaissance armor, including spaulders, elven bracers, mitten gauntlets, leather and steel (looking) breastplates to full gothic cuirasses. We have lamellar armour, Troy style armour, fantasy dragon armor even Samurai Armour and shields all made from polyurethane. Latex weapons are perfect for this type of armour and lrp fighting.99% of our leather items are made right here in the USA! Some of the leather accessories we make are sword frogs and dagger frogs. We have scabbards and baldrics to carry your sword on your back and renaissance rapier belts and carriers for your rapier. We make custom scabbards for broad swords and medieval swords.Most of our quality leather armor is used for SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) fighting and meets the SCA armored combat - armor requirements. Also made in the USA our armourer provides leather arm armour, arm bracers, body armor such as kidney belts, brigandines, breast and backplates, full suits of leather armour, leather gauntlets, leather leg armor, leather sabatons, leather greaves, leather gorgets and bevors for neck protection. We even carry leather helms for LARP and renaissance festivals.Official Lord of the Rings items here at By The Sword, Inc. include LOTR shields, lord of the rings clothing, lord of the rings costumes, lord of the rings collectibles, lord of the rings figurines and busts like Samwise Gamgee Bust, from the tow towers, the lady Galadriel bust, Legolas Greenleaf, Saruman the white. We also have lord of the rings helms, lord of the rings gauntlets, lord of the rings jewelry, lord of the rings sword and lord of the rings weapons and many more!The highly decorative and quality pieces from Marto are here also. From Marto swords, like the Robin Hood sword, Masonic swords, musketeer rapier and Spanish Tizona can be found. We have the full line of Marto full suits of armour, are of course the famous marto classic heater shields.Medieval Musical Instruments are the best quality available and include Glastonbury Pipes, all types and sizes of Bagpipes and accessories, even the medieval and renaissance Lute are available.We have the biggest selection of pole-weapons and battle axes that you could wish for. From decorative war hammers and flanged maces to combat ready / rebated spears & halberds (in our arms and armour section), Viking spearheads, lances and quality ash poles to put them on.An offering of Roman items this large and in one place just can't be found elsewhere on the Internet as here at By The Sword. We carry historically accurate Roman gear from all the major distributors - Deepeeka, CAS Iberia, Windlass Steelcrafts and our own contracted armories to provide you with Roman Shields (Roman Centurion Wooden Scutum), Roman Gladiator Helmets, Roman helms, Imperial Italic Guard, Roman armour, Roman Belts, Lorica Segmentata, Roman Swords, Falcata (kopis), Gladius and Spatha. We have Roman horse saddles and chandeliers to Roman lanterns, Roman Chain mail, Roman period shoes and marching boots. We even carry Leather Lorica Segmentata and Roman clothing and tunics.Under our "Scotland the Brave" section you can find all things Scottish! We sell Scottish Claymores, sgian dubh, William Wallace swords, highlander dirks and plenty of Scottish shield or targes. The basket hilt sword was a later version of the claymore and if you want Scottish clothing we have all kinds including kilts.Swords are the majority of our site with medieval and renaissance clothing and armor following swords. A list of the swords we sell can be summarized into the following list: Roman swords, Viking sword, Celtic swords, Norman swords, German swords, Italian swords, English swords, European swords, medieval swords, swords from the renaissance, and Japanese swords or katanas. We have different classes of decorative swords from just wall-hangers to decorative swords that you can wear in a scabbard on your belt and take to faires. We deal in live steel swords for varied users who might wish to have their swords sharp, or blunted (rebated) for sword fighting. We also have hand-forged swords that are historically accurate with spring steel blades. We carry last legend competition katanas, generation 2 medieval swords, katana and ninja swords as well as Deepeeka swords and Windlass swords. Our line of CAS Iberia / Hanwei makes swords and rapiers from all time periods and some of the best katana, wakizashi, tanto sets. They even manufacture Chinese swords for martial arts training, Tai Chi, and kung fu swords and Oriental weapons. Windlass makes U.S. military swords and sabers for all the branches of the Armed forces. Army officer's sword, air force, marine corps saber ever U.S. Coast Guard Saber with white and black dress frogs. Both companies make sword canes. Our practice or training swords consist of many wooden swords, single hand swords, two hand swords and Gladius (rudis) swords. For those wishing to train with Filipino weapons we have an entire selection. Katipunan bolo-tusok, pinute, kris swords and kris-kalis.Take care of your swords with our sword accessories. You can clean and protect your investment with our products and them display them proudly with our many sword hangers, sword stands and wall plaques.If you would like to decorate you castle with dungeon ware, we have leg irons, handcuffs and medieval locks, not to mention leather whips and cat-o-nine tails.U.S. Civil War buffs can find their re-enactment gear in our store, like Civil War belts, buckles and Boots, Hats, muskets and pistols. We even carry competition tomahawks and black powder items.As you can see By The Sword, Inc. has a huge selection of medieval items and believe it or not this is only a small sample of what we offer. We hope you enjoy your stop at our store. |
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