PARTNERS AND SPONSORS
Center for Blade Arts
The Center for Blade Arts (formerly Minnesota Sword Club) is one of the Twin Cities’ largest and most prestigious fencing schools. The Center for Blade Arts offers classes for all ages and levels in all forms of Olympic fencing as well as several forms of historic fencing.
Oakeshott Institute
The Oakeshott Institute is a research organisation based in Minneapolis, and curator of the acclaimed Oakeshott collection. The Institute is dedicated to the research and promotion of historical arms and armor through a hands-on educational approach.
Arms and Armor
Arms and Armor forges some of the best historic replicas in currently in production . Their unsurpassed knowledge,attention to detail and craftsmanship has made them popular with museums, reenactment groups, collectors and historic fencers around the world.
Robin Kodosky
Robin Kodosky is an artist of many talents. one of the specialties she is known for in the HEMA community is wood burning’s of historic fencing plates, as well as some other HEMA related art and merchandise. she can be contacted through her facebook page.
Purpleheart Armory
Purpleheart armory are one of the premier manufacturers and supplies of historic martial arts equipment in the US. Their range covers a huge spectrum of disciplines from around the world. As well as training equipment they also have an impressive range of tournament supplies. while mainly a web based company they can often be found as vendors at historic martial arts events around the county
Castille Armory
Castille Armory began in 2013 as a small hobby forge and has since grown to one of the largest training weapon suppliers in the US with an international reach. Castille Armory makes the highest quality sparring and tournament grade combat weapons designed for SCA, HEMA and WMA.
Sigi Forge
Sigi forge began life in 2018 in Bratislava, Slovakia with a goal to produce high quality, aesthetically pleasing and reliable training weapons. The com[any has grown steadily adding ever more products to meet the demands of its customers.
Seven Embers Forge
Seven Embers Forge is owned and operated by Sam Halote, a full-time bladesmith and cutler with over a decade of experience. He specializes in making swords for Historical fencing, with a particular interest in studying existing artifacts. He is currently based out of Chicago, Illinois.
HEMA Style Community Apparel
H.E.M.A. Style Community Apparel designs and sells various merchandise (hoodies, t shirts, beanies, mugs, etc) to showcase the historical European martial arts community. The shop is owned Gabe Arroyo. A full time ICU nurse and Fencer based out of the Chicago Swordplay Guild.
Krieger
Krieger was founded in Poland by a archeology and HEMA enthusiasts. They began making high quality replicas and in recent years have branched out to making training weapons for HEMA
Landsknecht Emporium
Based in Hungary as their name suggests Landsknecht Emporium specializes in making replica an training weapons that were common in medieval Europe . Longswords, Messers, Dussack and Bauernwehren.
Deadfencer
Deadfencer is an artistic endeavor by Matthew Currey, Experienced fencer and founder of Tempered Mettle Historical Fencing in Champaign Il, Matthews brand of absurdism with holds a dark mirror up to our world to bring levity to our modern life.