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Would canvas be historically accurate for a frock coat or sailor's short jacket?
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Edward doesn't know I'm posting this and he's probably gonna kill me but..... I'm just a little proud of the work he does.
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Good day all! I am new here to the Pub and have a question I'd like to throw out. I am assembling a mid to late 17th century buccaneering kit and am trying to decide on what kind of bag I need for powder and shot. I have a flintlock firearm (1650's English lock musket) and now I'm trying to decide on what kind of bag to make to carry my charges in. Exquemelin mentions cartouches "They use cartridges, and have a cartouche containing thirty, which they carry with them always, so they are never unprepared." However my question is what would these cartouches look like? Would they be more like a traditional cartridge box? (Wooden block etc) or more resembling a possibles ba…
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Living in a desert valley I have a lot of sleeveless garb that I wear in the summer time, and recently I felt that my arms were too bare. I had about 3 days before I was about to participate in an Annual AIDS walk and I wanted something to accessorize with my red garb, so I decided to whip up a couple of bracers. Now the end product is not period, but the end result is what I was looking for as people did notice them. They were eight inches in length and went a good way up my forearm. I kinda felt like a pyrate superhero wearing them. Here they are after the carving and being water formed to the proper shape. Here is a closeup of the Skull and mermaid. I kn…
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I have been researching traditional cat-o'-nine-tails. I know what the look like and I know where to get a modern version, but I would like to make something a bit more period. I nave this information "...weighed about 13 ounces (370 gram) and was composed of a baton (handle) and nine cords.". These cords are up for dispute. I have heard rope, leather, metal chain, and few other materials. My thought are rope. Does anyone know the truth of the matter? What were these cords made of?
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Thought it looked like a treasure chest. It will be the future costume storage for my wife, daughter and I. I just have to re-line it with cedar and make it structurally sound again. Found it in the attic of my dads garage. He found it thrown away when he was 13 back in the 50s. He said it belonged to an old lady and when she died this is one of the things thrown away. He pulled it home in a wagon and had it ever since.
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Original shift circa 1700 white linen...wide neck w/drawstring and short opening down center front. Sleeve gathered into shoulder and into band at elbow. Elbow band has buttons for closing. Large gore at each side with smaller gore at bottom. Neck and Sleeve finished with bobbin lace. I think this size fits Cheeky or did you adjust yours?
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My wife is going to Beijing in november. We know there's a very nice silk factory where we have been before. See wants to visit that place again and is willing to buy some cloth for me there, Now I am wandering what pattern see would have to look for, for authentic early 18 century silk that I can make the inner side of a luxurius frock coat or outerside of a waistcoat from?? Or off course other silk clothings..??
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I started this project in November and just got back to it. Have some pics from raw state to finished and thought people might like to see it go together [edit: fixed broken link https://get.google.com/albumarchive/115342383665312639937/album/AF1QipO2zDLPN1ql0yLsTxRlzvTy8_bN8_wOv0XbZckJ?authKey=COzikbHBgPWApAE ] mP
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so i have ended up with a small barrel/rumlett/what ever you want to call it. It is made of oak and certainly designed to hold liquids. so here is my dilema. I really want to give it a good internal cleaning, reseal it, then use it for water. We have beat the sealing it horse to death, so i'll save us that agony. What concerns me is cleaning it out. It looks like wine was in it at one time as there are red stains around the plug. What is the best way to clean this critter out to make it food grade safe and are there any hidden dangers that anyone can think of? I'm thinking dtergent, bleach, rinse.
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i am needin a li'l infermation... what was yer a'rage pyrate wearin while sailin?(description, color,, style, condition..)
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So I've been thinking too much, and I started wondering if there were any colours that were particularily popular to the GAoP.... And would certain colours be significantly more or less in cost and have class issues attached to them? I don't know a great deal about the GAoP yet, but I'm thinking by that point in history, the fabric/dyeing industry would have developed to the point where most colours are obtainable, but it's still early enough that I think certain colours would be easier or harder to obtain and hence affect the price thereof and possibly have class connotations attached to them. I'm specifically wondering about ochre... I have a few spare yards of ochre …
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Does anyone know the actual average height for crowns and width for brims circa 1695-1710? Hector
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Ok everytime I look for sailors clothes I can find most stuff on what the captains wore. I would like to do a more common sailor look. After all there were more sailors than captains right? But to make the outfit I would need pictures. Pictures of yourselves or from books would be great.
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does anyone know if they offer these courses online? or any historical costume sewing classes online? and.... has anyone heard of the website " your wardrobe unlocked ".........???? you pay monthly to join, but you have acess to sewing tecniques and directions for historical sewing thru the centuries,,,ohhhh and KASS IS ON THE WEBSITE.... OFFERING advice and how to and yadda yadda yadda....( this webiste is AMAZING... and even locked out of things you can see things.....
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I was browsing one of my local favorite flea-markets yesterday and came across the two volume set of Two Centuries of Costume in America, 1620-1820 by Alice Morse Earle, first published in 1903. These are a boxed set of paperbacks put out by Tuttle from Japan in 1971. There ar several art prints, lots of period descriptions, and some witty rhymes and poems concerning habits and dress. The bes part is (besides the fact they are ine excellent condition) I only paid $4 for them! I am not smart enough to work the scanner function on my printer, nor would I be able to figure out how to enlarge the images if I did know how to operate the damn thing. Blondie was thrilled wh…
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This may be the wrong place to put this but I am wondering what a GAOP courtly clothes would look like. Would they use silk? Is this picture early enough? I wanna be around 1720 .
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Custom Rennaisance era sailors breeches for Ivan Henry based on the period drawing below. Navy linen with white wool tape embelishments. Adjustable waist and rough carved wodden buttons for the fly. The matching jerkin is in the works.
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Maybe one of my primary skills is to pattern (or talking big?), I think that is a good skill for an old pirate like me. You know, the looting ships business is more for younger lads, telling the tales is more appropriate for riper dudes. A few days ago I started to renovate me a chest (or a locker) to use it at future pirate encampments. While I was thinking how to alter an old wooden locker to my new needs I started to spin a backstory of this locker, how I got it, who the prepossessor was etc. And suddenly a muse was kind enough to me to make up a really nice story (at least I believe so). But this is another story I have uploaded some pictures here: https://pyracy.c…
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I have some question about the Juste-au-corps. While I know that coats would vary from nation to nation and have slight differences from tailor to tailor what do we know about the construction and name of this garment? Did they have functional outside pockets? Did they have functional buttons to allow the coat to be sealed tightly in bad weather? Were they lined? Did they have inside pockets or is that a modern conveyance? We hear names like "Great Coat" and "Frock Coat" but these seem to describe other types of garments. Juste-au-corps, spelled many ways, is French. (?) What would this garment be called in England, among the Dutch, Italians, Spanish, or other nat…
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Stumbled over this by accident, didn't know where to put it, so I thought here would be best. It's the best photo I've ever come across of the outfit, doesn't look half bad. http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.curatedobject.us/.a/6a00e54f9f8f8c88340147e15471f0970b-800wi&imgrefurl=http://www.curatedobject.us/the_curated_object_/2011/01/exhibitions-baton-rouge-cut-costume-and-the-cinema-the-louisiana-art-science-museum-the-curated-obje.html&usg=__GmQoVkHXuU9MdvEYrMzwE2_1rAE=&h=1197&w=800&sz=93&hl=en&start=33&zoom=1&itbs=1&tbnid=q-x7HGmnF5avwM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=100&prev=/images%3Fq%3D18th%2Bcentury%2Blouisiana%2Ba…
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Found this in my searchings. I don't know if anyone has posted it yet. http://www.archive.org/stream/dictionaryoftext00harmrich/dictionaryoftext00harmrich_djvu.txt
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I don't know if there are any roses stores near anyone but they have some really nice old style zuit suits with some piratical flair to the fabric. It's the right length for a coat and the whole suit set is only $35 right now.
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Well I took a crack at it today. I used 3/4'' plastic rings from Jo Ann Fabrics and linen thread. Tell me what you think.
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The more familiar double overhand knot shown in the upper photo makes a fine stopper knot. The mystery double hand knot (It might have a proper name) is shown in the lower photo. Can you knot tyers duplicate it?
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