During the summer of 1991, I worked for the woman who owned Medieval Moccasins while she was at the Michigan Renaissance Festival and she did not seem to be too protective about the patterns. During the week, while the festival was not going on, we could work on them anywhere we pleased, as long as we got the work done. I would work on mine down by the lake or around campfires or around the glass blower's booth.

The woman who owns the company now is her daughter (she was only ten when I made the moccasins). I haven't worked at or attended a Ren Fest in years, but I have heard that she is very unpleasant to work for.

Regardless, I remember having seen the same design fifteen years before I worked for MM. She didn't invent the design.