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DaveB
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 Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:53 am Post subject: If it didn't |
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If it didn't come with footnotes, it's bogus.
Green is popular color for reenactors who are reenacting other reenactors. That's why you see it so much.
If you actually wear a white linen shirt while doing 18th C stuff & wash it in a creek, it doesn't look "white" for long.
I'd recommend sticking to the period accounts, receipts, pictures & artifacts & leave the legends to the legendary reenactors who helped invent them!
Have fun!
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DougHarding
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| Luke MacGillie wrote: | Niel,
Is there any documentation, for only have one body seam? |
Bill Brown's book on Men's shirts has an example of the early 1760's western Pennsylvania shirt where the fold is on one side with the salvage at the shoulders and tails. I've made this shirt, but the linen was 60" wide and that made it reach the floor on me. I kept the salvage edge on the tails, but had to cut off the extra material at the shoulder seam.
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DougHarding
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| virginiaregiment wrote: | Ken,
for most 18thc hunting shirt applications LINEN would be a better choice than cotton. Green was also not a horribly common color to dye linen in the 18thc.
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I am curious, is this just for hunting shirts, or all linen as to the color. I am making an 1760's gentleman's coat, and I choose a nice emerald green linen. So, am I going to wear a fictious color linen that would not have been available in 1760s St. Louis or New Orleans? What plant could have been used to dye linen green?
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| DougHarding wrote: | | virginiaregiment wrote: | Ken,
for most 18thc hunting shirt applications LINEN would be a better choice than cotton. Green was also not a horribly common color to dye linen in the 18thc.
JM |
I am curious, is this just for hunting shirts, or all linen as to the color. I am making an 1760's gentleman's coat, and I choose a nice emerald green linen. So, am I going to wear a fictious color linen that would not have been available in 1760s St. Louis or New Orleans? What plant could have been used to dye linen green?
Doug Harding |
Some documentation exist for green linen coats/frocks hunting shirts. Dyed linen in Green would be few and far between. You will find more documentation for Red Linen,Blue and Grey Linen.
Wool was the predominate material for coats and frocks.
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Karen H.
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| DougHarding wrote: | | What plant could have been used to dye linen green? |
You can find some more 18th century dye recipes at http://larsdatter.com/18c/dye.html too -- but these were specifically green dyes for linen.
(Btw, as relates to men's shirts -- I've also got another linkspage at http://larsdatter.com/18c/shirts.html which features extant shirts, as well as some online instructions for sewing men's shirts.) 
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