The Silver Dragon Merchant

The Silver Dragon Merchant SCA Merchant My wife and I started The Silver Dragon in July of 2000 based in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. Our kids have grown up at war.

We are focused on medieval reenactment and fantasy based events. Our shop sells blades, period men's & women's garb, cloaks, belly dance outfits, jewelry, tapestries, and other period accessories and trinkets. We merchant for SCA, COS, Belegarth, Themed Conventions, the Scottish Society and various other venues. My favorite part of being a merchant is the people I meet and the friends I make. Doin

g this part-time as a hobby allows me to have a good time with cool people without worrying too much about making money. The first was 2 months old at his first Estrella war, the second was only 7 days at Potrero war, and the last was only a month old at Potrero war. As broke college students, we wanted a way to afford to attend medieval reenactment and fantasy faire events more often. We started with a tiny mundane 6' gazebo at Darkwell War selling some blades that we paid retail prices for, and good enough jewelry found at the mall and thrift shops. We sewed some garb and cloaks and found a few thrift shop pieces that worked. We didn't do very well at the first war, but we learned a lot and grew. We upgraded to a 10x10 Popup, then to a 12x20, and after a couple of years, we were using 2 12x20 popup garden canopies. We learned to make more things to sell and found more suppliers to give us a large variety of stock. We have always used roughly the same markup to keep prices low while still being able to make enough to justify the work put in. After Estrella War 2008 when the haboob tore our mundane tent in half we decided it was time to get a period tent. We bought the 20x30 Panther tent that we use today. It was big enough to camp in and have our shop. We soon outgrew it and had to add a popup behind it for a kitchen. The shop continued to grow and take up tent space until it consumed the whole panther. Our full setup is now 30x40 at most events.

Tulare Renaissance Faire!
04/22/2025

Tulare Renaissance Faire!

New Tapestries! We will have them out at Red Star Rapier War.
01/28/2023

New Tapestries! We will have them out at Red Star Rapier War.

02/07/2020
Tell me your stories!
10/09/2019

Tell me your stories!

05/22/2019

Almost ready to hit the road. Potrero War!

Merchants row at Estrella war this year after the rain. We still had a good war. I hope everyone that came to Estrella f...
02/25/2019

Merchants row at Estrella war this year after the rain.
We still had a good war. I hope everyone that came to Estrella for the first time does not expect this to be the norm. I have never seen this much water on the ground at an Estrella before.

Packing and getting ready for Estrella War!Setting up in C2,3
02/07/2019

Packing and getting ready for Estrella War!
Setting up in C2,3

10/02/2018

Tent setup yesterday, tables getting setup today. GWW Great Western War!

08/30/2018

Off to Highland war we go!

06/21/2018

Off to Caid 40th Anniversary!

05/08/2018

So someone wanted a purple cloak, but the number I wrote down was wrong :( Do you happen to be on my page?

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Bakersfield, CA
93306

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