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Medieval Factory is specialized in the Middle Ages, being our main objective customer satisfaction both in design, and quality and service.

All phases of development of textile products such as design, pattern cutting, sewing and distribution are done in our facilities. That’s why we can ensure quality and time in manufacturing.

We are continually expanding our catalog with new product designs and we are open to any suggestion that the client may request.

In April 2009 we faced a new challenge and opened our new facility with more than 1300 m2 in Villarquemado (Teruel).

This also allows us to expand and have a sales network in Spain and to export to several countries in Europe, in order to consolidate our position as one of the leading European companies in the sector.

Our products are focused on a wide range of clients, including retail and wholesale: theatre companies, groups of Moors and Christians, shops specializing in clothing and costumes, movies, television programs, historical recreation groups, and so on.

Our products and services are:

- Rental and sale of medieval costumes (historical recreation, individuals, municipalities, associations, theatre, cinema, etc.).
- Rental and sale of tents and medieval tents (for events, historical reenactment, medieval markets, weddings, etc.).
- Medieval weapons and accessories (swords, shields, helmets, medieval armor, daggers, spears, halberds, swords, fighting, etc.).
- Manufacture of trappings for horses and medieval costumes for Moors and Christians (belts, leggings, armbands, caps, hats, tahalis, etc.).
- Medieval decoration (all kinds of flags, banners, friezes, crests, coats of arms and decorations in general for individuals, decoration of streets and squares in towns to medieval markets, castles, themed spaces, historical recreation, etc.).
- Ironwork lighting and decoration.
- Organization of medieval events (companies, groups, etc.).
- Medieval wedding planning throughout the country (catering, tents, décor, entertainment, sound, etc.).
- Groups of entertainment for events, weddings, medieval markets. (Musicians, jugglers, actors, fire, etc.).
- Catering service for weddings, celebrations and medieval banquets and conventional.


- Sales to individuals and wholesalers.

- Sale and rental of medieval costumes.

- Men, women and children.

- Tailoring and custom designs.

- Medieval wedding event planning.

- Sale of medieval weapons and accessories.

- Sale and rental of marquees and tents.

- Forging art lighting and decoration.

- Catering service for weddings and celebrations.

- Medieval decoration.



 

 

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Copyright © 2006 Medieval Factory MEDIEVAL KNIGHT COSTUMES. LADY medieval costume. MEDIEVAL COSTUMES CHILD. MEDIEVAL ACCESSORIES. Weapons and armor. Halberd. MEDIEVAL HELMETS SWORDS. Medieval sword. Breastplates. SHIELDS. Rodel. Gauntlet. Half-armor. COSTUMES. MEDIEVAL COSTUMES. Medieval Castle. MASKED MEN. Medieval Factory is specialized in the Middle Ages. We manufacture all their medieval costumes and accessories. All clothing has followed an exhaustive study, classified by the century or the medieval stage to which it relates. Similarly, accessories such as belts, straps, tahalis, leggings, etc, are designed based on the role that would be developed and materials typical of the era such as leather. Medieval costumes are designed by following the variations through the centuries have marked the fashions, as the wide-sleeved, long low, gathers, necklines, sleeve types, etc ... We try to make the types of materials used are, where possible, as close to those of the era, such as cotton, linen, wool, etc. as well as the drawings in brocade, always seeking the highest quality for the costumes. We have costumes for all characters occupying the Middle Ages: Kings, nobles, maids, courtiers, knights, minstrels, troubadours, peasants, jesters, etc.. In Medieval Factory sell to individuals, stores and wholesalers. We send orders to anywhere in Spain and Europe. In addition to the suits that appear on our site, we can make any model that the client requests, or any modification to the existing ones, all models are available in different fabrics, colors and trimmings, as well as different sizes, as may made to measure. Our rental service medieval costumes, also to individuals, shops or towns where medieval festivals held since Medieval Factory participates in the most important medieval festivals and in some European country. We have enough clothes to dress an entire population. We also manufacture tents and medieval tents, offering the possibility of selling and renting them. The same goes for banners, medieval banners and decorations in general, can make custom banners, cover squares, streets or decorating a house. If an association, local, private, council, etc ... are interested in selling or renting our costumes for a medieval event of its people, contact us and we will study the best business option. Costumes. Medieval Costumes. Knight Costumes 1 .- What is the Medieval Times? Middle Ages is known as the period of European history that has passed since the disintegration of the Roman Empire in the V century, until the fifteenth century. However, the above dates should not be taken as fixed references: never has been a sharp break in the cultural development of the continent. The Middle Ages, Middle Ages or Middle Ages, were the times of more than 800 years. In the Middle Ages many castles had (with their kings, earls, warriors, peasants and clowns). There were many convents and monks were the best they could read and write. There were also many markets. 2 .- Effect political, social, economic and religious. Political The prevailing political and economic structure in the Middle Ages was feudalism. This system was developed in response to the disintegration of central authority and the social chaos that emerged after the end of Roman rule. A hierarchy of powerful men, governed by the new system of serfdom and feudal territorial division, replaced the old Roman system of emperor, senate, province, city and town. Social The Middle Ages was a time when society was characterized by great inequality of classes. There were only a handful of people who were free, the rest were submitted and could not leave the land where he was born, a system that became known as serfdom. Social classes were threefold: 1 .- The nobility What was the king, the lord and his vassals. It consisted mostly of people of French or Germanic. 2 .- The clergy In addition to religious functions, had a vital role in society and culture, because its members received a higher education which enabled them to lead society. An interesting aspect of medieval clerical establishment is that, while often content with nobles, did not exclude that humble peasants could also become priests. 3 .- Population peasant It was the basis of the social pyramid. Its members except a few who had remained free depended on a ruler, either by birth or heritage. The peasant or serf did not own him, it was part of the soil or earth, and could not leave without the consent of the Lord. Perhaps its greatest advantage was that of not being able to be pulled out of the estate, it was attached to it almost like a perpetual tenant. Economic Feudal relations between individuals, which has more to do with the world of agriculture. In the field dominated by subsistence agriculture. The product was obtained in small scale, using relatively primitive agricultural techniques. The aim of the manor was self-sufficiency. Union relations. In cities, guilds (groups of artisans) enhance the local economy and prevent the expansion of production and the market: trade activities between regions and / or countries were severely limited, little technological development, lack of capital, there are no facilities for mobility of individuals. Religious The only universal European institution was the Church, but even she had a fragmentation of authority. All power within the church hierarchy was in the hands of the bishops of each region. The pope had a certain preeminence based on being the successor of Peter, first bishop of Rome, whom Christ had given the highest ecclesiastical authority. However, the elaborate machinery of ecclesiastical government and the idea of a church headed by the pope would not develop until after 500 years. The Church saw itself as a spiritual community of Christian believers, exiled from the kingdom of God, waiting in a hostile world the day of salvation. The most prominent members of this community were in the monasteries, scattered throughout Europe and away from the church hierarchy. Within the Church there were trends that aimed to unify the rituals, the calendar and the monastic rules, as opposed to the disintegration and local development. Besides these administrative measures was preserved cultural tradition of the Roman Empire. In the ninth century, the coming to power of the Carolingian dynasty marked the beginning of a new European unity based on the Roman legacy, as the political power of the Emperor Charlemagne depended on administrative reforms that used materials, methods and objectives of the extinct Roman world. 3 .- What is the Mester de Juglaría? Mester means trade, therefore Mester de Juglaría is the name given to the proper office of minstrels and also how to write and tell stories the minstrels, and the whole of the works they created. The jugglers In the twelfth century the Peninsula appears in literature in the vernacular. Literature was transmitted orally, not written and consisted mainly of poems that told people into the streets and castles of the people in exchange for food, clothing or money. These people were the minstrels. The minstrels knew how to do things other than tell stories. There were jugglers, acrobats, dancers and musicians, their mission was to entertain people. 4 .- What is the Clergy? Mester is called the Clergy Along with the mastersinger in the Spanish Middle Ages, religious poetic activity came to be called mester of clergy, they were productions by clerics and educated people. - They were known poems with author, and not limited as in epic poetry. - Poetry was learned. - It is widely used metric called the frame means, Alexandrine verse of four lines (14 syllables) hemistiches divided into two (7 and 7). 5 .- What was the Servants of Gleva? Servants of Gleva, ie land, were considered to peasants, farmers, called serfs, who occupied the lands of the owner, who was called Lord, receiving in return a humble home, a small adjacent land, some farm animals and protection from outlaws and other lords. The serfs had to give up some of his own as payment and subject to many other duties and taxes. These depended on the land lords. They had no independence outside the land. If land is sold also entered the lot. 6 .- What is feudalism? Feudalism is the social, political and economic based on the manor, in Western Europe during the ninth century to the fifteenth century. The origins, ideas and feudal institutions have German roots. He was an individualist conception of politics that developed against the centralization and absolute power of kings. The feud was a typical contract in the average age by which the sovereigns and great lords granted land in usufruct or income. Forcing you got to keep the loyalty of vassal to the donor. Castles of Spain. Characteristics, history and architecture Introduction to the architecture of the castles Spain is the best country for lovers of castles, as the number of preserved and variety art, history and chronology is enormous. The definition for castles is not easy, although a building is considered castle should normally have: • more or less rectangular enclosure or to suit the ground • A Living Tower • A courtyard around which have different units (see side picture Medina del Campo Castle) This applies to the castles that Christians and Muslims ignores the keep and in the case of the citadels become true citadels with many interconnected towers and units. The castle is a building that meets the need of defense in an era marked by wars, conquests and punitive raids and pillaging. Thus began having a practical use and architecture did not aspire to make something beautiful but functional. Over time, the medieval castle and palace became thus appeared aesthetic taste. The elements of castle architecture fully reflects the conditions necessary to repel attacks: Location high. Medieval castles although they could be located in different places (rockers, montane, or plain) preferred especially on a high mound settle or rock to prevent one of the ways to attack the enemy, build tunnels or mines under the wall to your crease subsequent sinking cracks in the walls. Climbing in height is also difficult to use fortified or movable wooden towers used by the invaders to jump to the parapet. Pit and barrier. Failure to settle up, he would have a moat to keep away as much as the enemy. This ditch was completed thistles iron stakes or traps to prevent the association of horses. Then a barrier was being built outside. Thickness and height of the walls. It is logical that its walls were of great breadth and consistency to resist the percussion of rams, jacks, and the projectiles launched with catapults. The walls, as well as wide, high-rise were to hinder the assault scales. The material used was different: masonry, drywall, masonry, adobe, brick ... Crenellations and battlements. The walls of most of the units were topped by battlements. Another defense of the walls were projecting balconies amatacanados or spaces of the wall, which had a high and privileged position on the enemy throng near the walls. Protected doors. One of the architectural elements of the castle doors were more sophisticated. To his defense combined multiple systems were used: • Build battlements or sentry on the same • Create targeted loopholes • right under the Tower of Homage • Lining the timber with iron to prevent fire • Located diametrically opposed to the barrier • Use horizontal crossbars in a position to avoid breakage • angled at right angles • Place one or barbican barbican Keep. Although the castle has offered multiple graded resistance invader defense system architecture does not end with the entrance to the courtyard. The final conquest ended with the capture of the great tower of homage (see photo below the castle of Arevalo). To avoid this, the builders of castles resorted to various mills, such as setting input from upper floors of the wall and hard to access (drawbridge), construction of perimeter wall or sleeve, construction, again, battlements and scaffold timber to house soldiers, and so on. Cisterns. In order to have water in times of siege tank dug in the ground to harness the rainwater. This used to be vaulted cistern was covered with red ocher paint antifiltración call. Characteristics of the Castles of Spain for Europeans The unique historical circumstances living in Spain during the Middle Ages determines a different picture than in other parts of Europe. In Spain, from the early eighth century to the late fifteenth is a very long period of intermittent warfare, not only between Christians and Muslims, but between themselves Taifa kingdoms and each other. This results in the construction of countless forms of military-style strengths, very functional in nature, we might even be defined as rough. The castles built in Spain are rather small (although there are large exceptions) but rarely with crenellated towers terminating in pinnacles, seen from different materials (brick, masonry or brick), ie without plastering. You can also have dry moat around. Spanish Castle This model is very far from the castle palace Central, with lots of windows, gardens, chapel, courtyard and palace moat. Another distinguishing feature of Spanish castles is that, although there are some who have been continuously inhabited since its construction in general were abandoned as their original defensive uses were overwhelmed by the weapons technology. This means that still exists in Spain a good collection of ruins and castles in acceptable condition retaining almost entirely pure medieval structure. Such is the case from the Arab Caliphate of Gormaz or the castle of Consuegra, of the Military Order of St. John's Hospital, both with very little reform, since not been renewed since ancient times. In this sense it is remarkable the huge collection of ancient castles (prior to AD 1000) preserved in Spain Hispano period. Another unique feature of the castles of Spain against the rest of Europe is its property. If the European feudal castle is owned by a nobleman who lends his subjects in case of aggression against a tax change (by creating autonomous mini-states with no real direct control of the monarch) in Spain start as real property because they are spoils of war and given their government wardens or tenants. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the territory between the Sierra Morena Tagus and the monarchy will cede lands and castles military orders for the protection of an area threatened by the proximity of Al-Andalus. Between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries the kings castles give noble families such as Lara, Velasco, Pacheco, Mendoza, etc.. reformed or built castles that new ones such as residential palaces. Finally, from the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella and the concentration of power, many castles are destroyed with the end of the noble insurrections. Specific designations Castles in Spain (Christians and Muslims) • Alcalá. It comes from qalca. Is any current Muslim castillejo • Alcazar. From the Arabic al-Qasr. It's a great fortified palace, ie residential rooms. The diminutive al-Qusayr give another name in Castilian very present in Spanish place names: Alcocer. • Alcazaba. From the Arabic al-qasaba. Expresses a true citadel fortified civilian homes, mosques, etc.. • Burch. Arab Tower and living large, square. • Atalaya. From Arabic tala'la. Arab Tower located small circular high for surveillance and communication with other watchmen or populations. • Torre. From the Latin turris. Refers to a Christian building elevation, superimposed rooms • Castle torrejón. Christian Castillo donjon with large corner sentry. History of Spanish medieval castles Christians in the centuries Castles VIII, IX and X The situation in the seventh century with the Muslim invasion initial process was a defense by hispanovisigodos who emigrated to the Asturian mountains. With its gradual conquest of southern lands and the subsequent Arab raids, we had to start building defenses. Castilla was born with a multi fortifications very difficult to describe the remoteness of the time and the few remains preserved, but should be very simple and poor, making the most rugged terrain in the area. Castles Emirate and Caliphate The castles and fortresses hispaomusulmanas Emirate and Caliphate period modeled Greco-Roman camps. They tend to be simple, rectangular or square, except when adapted to the terrain, with rectangular cubes made with a rope and blight stalls. They have donjon. The most important are preserved castle Calatayud (Zaragoza), the citadel of Mérida (Badajoz), Basque Castle (Toledo), The Castle Vacar (Córdoba) of Calatrava la Vieja (Ciudad Real) and especially the magnificent Gormaz Castle (Soria). See photo side of the paintings on the walls of this castle. In Castilla (Madrid, Toledo, Soria) and Aragon standing still remain an interesting series of towers and watchtowers that marked our soil since the tenth century and were the work of the last emir, Mohammad and the first caliph, Abd al-Rahman III. Castles Taifas After the demise of the Caliphate in the early eleventh century Muslim Spain is facing a fragmentation into small independent kingdoms, with great taste for luxury and culture, but with a political and military power is very limited. By this time the remains of fortified palaces and castles, the manarcas peretenecientes small Muslim kingdoms, such as Murcia, Zaragoza (Aljafería), Palma de Mallorca (Almudaina), Sevilla, Tortosa (Zuda), Balaguer, and so on. An interesting collection of fortifications Taifa period is the defensive towers of Valencia, as Almusafes Espioca, Benifayó, etc. and served as lookout and defense of the orchards. Romanesque castles XIII) has exceeded the long-standing Frontera del Duero and moves south in two stages. creating a barrier in the rear, north of the Central System in towns such as Salamanca, Avila, Segovia and Sepulveda. The second stage, at the end of the Romanesque period, the border moved to Sierra Morena. This moment is especially interesting because in the current rise Castilla La Mancha various castles by the military orders like the Consuegra in Toledo (1183) and Calatrava la Nueva Ciudad Real (1218). It is difficult to model Romanesque castle because most have been highly processed. Perhaps the most noble example is Loarre, although its construction is due to at least two quite distinct stages, one in the first half of the eleventh century and the other end of that century. Zaragoza is also worth noting the Sádaba castle. The Romanesque castles in Spain should be rectangular or adjusted to the topography, with cylindrical cubes at the corners and the main tower of square section. Gothic palace Castles They belong to the fourteenth century and especially the fifteenth and early sixteenth century. They are the best preserved and most beautiful because they are often new plant, with great symmetry and aesthetic taste. Populations are usually gentle slopes or have chapel and the courtyard is a stately colonnaded courtyard become. Unlike the military castles past, present multiple windows and the decor is present at different places, for example, coats of arms or through various reliefs on its walls (like the castle of Manzanares in Madrid. See photo below) In Castilla these castles are usually square or rectangular blocks in the corners and a large tower. There are battlements on consoles. Masonry is used in some Mudejar style, brick, and the castles of Coca, Medina del Campo, etc. Arevalo. Galician castles of the time, the famous palaces, just keep being authentic military structure recreational houses. The bastions of the Renaissance Although firearms were used in the peninsula for some time, is mostly from the sixteenth century when generalized completely and that's when the old castle of defense is to become vertical strong bastion capable of surviving an artillery attack In these strongholds, the height of the walls and towers is lower. These are round corners not to offer to missiles. The battlements are of great battlements with holes for cannons. The vertical arrow slits become horizontal slits or mailbox to hold guns. Another feature is the effort to create strong barriers before moats based, push-pull, external fortifications to ward off enemy missiles and their lack of danger. Some good examples are the castles strong bastion of Grajal Field in Leon, Berlanga de Duero in Soria (See photo side), Chinchón in Madrid, Granada Calahorra, etc..

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