Krista Reich

Krista grew up in Vancouver, BC on the beautiful west coast of Canada. She’s always adored medieval dress since childhood and found inspiration in historical styles. She studied art history, painting and pattern drafting in college, and began studying historical dress construction, materials and styles on her own. She also became a convert to natural fibres and enthusiastic about traditional crafts, especially fibre arts; spinning, dying and weaving. She later built a small loom, stud frame shed, and much of the family furniture out of peeled pines and spare lumber, but that’s a different topic!

She spent nearly three years backpacking and soaking in the heritage of Britain, where she met husband Neil. They traveled together and now reside in the BC Cariboo region near 100 Mile House. She has been drawing her whole life, with an emphasis on clothing, and has been sewing clothing projects since about 1990, inspired fashions at first then historic reproduction, then back again. She loves doing things the old-fashioned way and using the natural materials that were available in the past.