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Where do you all go for cloak pins?

i just finished a celtic style Brat cloak and I really like it, trouble is that the only cloak pin ive got is to thick for the fabric I used (and im using it for my other hooded felt cloak). Is there a good reliable source for claok pins online? im looking for something either silver, bronze or brass (in color, not composition) in a celtic penanular style.

pics of the cloak, and all the things it can double as, soon.

Frothgar

My personal favorites:

http://www.craftycelts.com/celtic_brooches.html

Looking forward to those pics!

wow, really nice stuff.

but i should have mentioned im on a budget. something like in the 15 dollar range. something unadorned and real simple.

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Try here, they have a few I want to order.

http://www.twinrosesdesigns.com/Cloak%2 ... 0Sale.html

An easy cheat is maybe go to a craft store and see what they have in the hardware section for curtains and rods. You can usually buy large straight pins,or maybe even use a nail if you want it to look more rustic.

I could never find one I liked in my price range so I sat down and forged a simple one just to see if i could.
It was surprisingly easy to create this. The art on the better ones is what raises the prices!

I did one several years ago using some steel Non- hardened rod stock and a nail. I bent the rod over a pipe and cold hammered the ends and the pin. Worked very well and no forging or heat involved.

Mirimaran wrote:My personal favorites:

http://www.craftycelts.com/celtic_brooches.html

Looking forward to those pics!

I have a couple of things by them. Really, really nice work.

I recently got a beautiful bronze penannular cloak pin from my local renaissance festival that has oak leaves on the ends. I love it, and I'll have to get some pictures of it sometime, but by God it was expensive as hell.

I don't own one, but if your into the multipurpose "I don't have to carry as much as you" kinda thing,



It's a fire steel and a cloak pin in one! I don't know, I thought it was awesome...

That striker & pin combo is really neat!!!

Who makes them?

the pathfinder school llc.

http://www.thepathfinderstore.com/fire- ... t-pin-awl/

Great idea, and a pretty cool site too, thanks for both!