The coolest artisans and crafters come to the West Virginia Renaissance Festival. Whether local or traveling, fine art or folk, you’ll find something for all tastes and every budget. Use the list as a guide and go right to what you want, or wander around the grounds and browse. You can’t go wrong!

Demonstrations

  • Tommy Carroll of Mountain Rain Forge — times TBA

Artisans

  • ABC Honey — Appalachian honey products
  • Ancient Ateliers — GrecoRoman costumes
  • Antique Soap Company
  • Basket Case — handmade baskets
  • Bee & Elephant — historical headwear
  • Black Mountain Clothiers — tribal costuming
  • Black Roof Corpse — handcarved pipes
  • By These Hands — children’s hats and infusions
  • The Candy Bar-hard candy
  • Celestial Cycles — readings and astrological pendants
  • The Coin Mint — medallions made for you
  • The Copper Hollow — copper garden art
  • Crystal Mountain Oils and Incense
  • Dragon Hatchery — leather dragon clips and pins
  • Dragon Ocarinas
  • Dragonspirations — sculpted dragons
  • Elvin Shimmer — elf ears, wands and horns
  • Everwild — hats and suncatchers
  • Faery and Tails — fairy garb
  • Forager’s Emporium — crochet costume and accessories
  • Foxfire Fancies
  • Froda Smida — armor
  • Gayle Rancer, Silversmith
  • The Glass Fairy — all things glass
  • Green Roof Studios — embroidered styles
  • Greenwood Emporium — face painting
  • Hand in Hand — psychic reader
  • The Hammered Spoon — upcycled materials jewelry and garden art
  • Iron Ladle — oils and vinegars
  • Jarhead Farms — jams, jellies, syrups
  • Jessie Create — textiles
  • Joan Helena Studios — pottery
  • Karneval Masque — Venetian Masks
  • King Richard’s Flowers — flowers for your paramour
  • Lady Artisan — pewter
  • Legends and Lore — original fantasy novels
  • Lei Lotus — costuming
  • Let Them Eat Cake — cake in a jar
  • Lizard King Designs — Ears and tails
  • Lord of the Beak — bird whistles
  • Mahalakshmi Henna
  • Madame Marina’s Hair Braiding
  • Moonstruck Maple — syrup and cotton candy
  • Mountain Dragon Mazery — mead
  • Mountain Fae — bird and fairy houses
  • Mountain Rain Forge
  • Mountain Table — Coffee Roaster
  • Mugs and Woods — wooden mugs and products
  • Mythical Menagerie — wooden figures
  • Myth and Moonstone — candles
  • New Pterodactyl Leather — costuming and accessories
  • Not Just Rope — learn to make your own rope
  • The Oaken Wren  — circlets and tiaras
  • Oveja Negra Designs — leather, feathers and crystal accessories
  • Otherworldly Alchemist — creatures
  • Peasant’s Corner — costuming
  • Peasant’s Glass — stained glass
  • Pepi’s Puzzle Rings —sterling silver puzzle rings and pewter pendants
  • Petal Ears Studio — pottery and beads
  • Phaedre’s Place — essential oils, amulets, driftwood
  • Puck’s Creations — pan horns, wings and wands
  • Regalia Braids — hair braiding
  • Resonant Media Art — original fantasy novels and crochet
  • Riding Raiders — Hungarian traditional saddles, bows and accessories
  • RPGMaille — chain mail
  • Rugged History Beard Co — beard care products
  • Saga of Antler and Bone — bone carvings and jewelry
  • Singletree — etched metal
  • Skyn & Bones — leather armor
  • Starfire Swords
  • Sticks Stones and Broken Bones — walking sticks and drinking horns
  • SunShades — parasols
  • Swords by Alan Meek
  • Toon Brian — caricature artist
  • Travelling Leather — belts and bags
  • Treehaven by Tallfellow — woven wire art and adornments
  • The Two Tinkers — fine art, elf ears, henna, wire wrapped jewelry
  • Vikings of Eclipse — shoulder pets
  • The Wandering Wordsmith Book Shoppe — original fantasy novels
  • Wee Warriors — wooden swords and shields
  • Wylde Hare — fairy hair and hair art
  • Wyrd Armouries — leather and weapons
  • Zil’s Forest — woodsy art

Plus face painting, hair braiding, and henna!