Reproducing 19th Century Homespun Fabrics || One Woman is Twice Two Soldiers, Episode 6
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- My adventures into getting living history and also getting into reproducing 19th century homespun fabrics.
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The point about your local water changing the dyes was interesting, and almost certainly right! If you can, try collecting water from a creek (or rainwater in a water butt when/if it rains), and dye with natural water. I’d be really interested to see the results.
I need to do that. I was teaching a dye class (First one at my house) and I was shocked to see the pink change to purple! I had to talk it through to myself and I realized the only difference was the water and so they have to be treating it with something that turns cochineal to purple. I was a bit disappointed but I think I'm going to collect rain water and strain it for next time.
I loved the story of how you met your husband! How awesome to meet someone who shares your passion for living history with you. I also absolutely LOVED that Ted plaid dress you made. Stunning 😍! I’d REALLY love to learn how to spin, dye, and weave wool. I’m interested in the technology from the Viking age as well as the 17th and 18th centuries. I’m curious if you have any idea what percentage of women could weave homespun fabrics in the 19th century? Fascinating video! Thanks so much for sharing your journey with us. Take care.
I actually don't have a good percentage of who could spin or weave. I do know it was more common in the rural south than in the north and even the west. Weaving happened on plantations in here in Texas fairly often but my understanding that was mostly weaving coverlets and not fabric. In the late 1800s, Tennessee did a survey of surviving Civil War veterans and over 70% reported that there was some sort of fiber arts (dying, weaving, spinning, or carding) done at home as they were growing up. On the other hand, you also read a lot of references to most women having to learn these skills due to necessity during the war, alluding to the fact they didn't previously have the skills. At the start of the Civil War, there was a southern movement for younger women to weave their own dresses as a patriotic statement (not necessity) and between that and the blockades during the war that caused supply issues, there were many more women spinning and weaving during the Civil War than before and after. So I guess all that to say, not I don't have a percentage and I think it would be hard to get a reliable number, but it's safe to say that for most of the US, weaving wasn't a "normal" thing that most people in civilized places were doing on a regular basis.
This is so interesting, you are such a amazing teacher of history!
Thank you so much! I learn so much all the time-I think the more I learn, the more I realize how much I do not know yet.
Just wondering, were you homeschooled? You are amazing to me that you have such a drive for information and learning. I’m new to living history and am still learning the ins and outs of making period correct clothing. You are so informative and enjoyable to watch. I’ve learned a lot from you and I am old enough to be your mother. As I like to say “you never stop learning no matter how old you are”! Thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge. Say hello to Rhett for me.
Yes, I was homeschooled :). All the way from kindergarten through highschool.
@@KatelynKearns Awesome! I could tell because you have that drive for learning and you love a challenge. I homeschooled my children. My youngest now 25 the longest, from kindergarten through 12th grade. What a privilege, what a blessing. I pray you will “life school” yours also. All the best to you and Rhett.
@@francesburkes7025 homeschooling was truly a blessing and I loved every bit of it. I very much look forward to educating my own children in the same manner-after 8+ years in the public school setting, I don't want my children in that setting.
Wow thankyou for sharing you are very clever ❤
My pleasure! Thank you for watching!
I loved listening to this! I spin wool as part of my job at a historic site museum, and I’ve been considering doing my own natural dying of the wool I’ve spun, so this has been immensely helpful to listen to! I’m thinking I may use Queen Anne’s lace or rhubarb leaves to dye my wool a lovely green
On the second Wednesday of September, I actually have a whole podcast coming out on early 19th century dying receipts and how to achieve the different colors in America. I sifted through the ones I've either used myself or at the very least people today could easily get the ingredients (because some common dye mordants are regulated by the FDA and other government agencies today) and I think you'll very much enjoy that! I find a lot of leaves (at least the ones I've tried) give yellow instead of green which is annoying. The best way I've personally found to get green is to over dye the wool indigo after first dying it yellow.
@@KatelynKearns oh wonderful! I’ll await that podcast with bated breath then, and im sure it’ll be quite informational Some of my colleagues have had success using the Queen Anne’s lace flower to make lime green (using alum), but on the display we show while spinning wool, we have a sample of a yellow over dyed with indigo which created a lovely teal colour! Thank you so much for the abundance of information!
@@serenedaisy17 That's neat! I haven't specifically tried Queen Anne's lace so I'll have to give that a go next spring. Thank you!
Blackcurrant is a good dye, and colour fast, ask me how I know 😂. You look great in the blue dress, is it vintage or modern? ❤
It's an exact replica of an original 1930s gown I own. I made it on the channel if you'd like to watch: ua-cam.com/video/1PVmtCU3anI/v-deo.htmlsi=jo3CH6c-7UDE96c2.
I went back to see if you mentioned it but I wasn’t able to find the full meaning of this podcast title. I can guess at what it means but I was wondering if it was a reference to the women who would travel with their soldier husbands
It actually is a private joke between me and a friend. At the event we both met our now husbands (technically Rhett and I had met before, but we hadn't talked and didn't know one anther yet), there were a bunch of prisoners of war at the event and some of them were assigned to help the commissary (cooks) at the fort. They were supposed to be filling the drinking barrel of water from a water well several buildings away. I guess there was only 1 bucket and they were supposed to work in pairs so my friend and I watched these PoWs carry a single bucket of water between two men and joked between ourselves that the men out here were useless because it took two of them to carry one bucket of water. The next year both of us were married and found ourselves at the same site doing a laundry demonstration. I had a yoke and was carrying two buckets of water by myself and my friend took a photo of me (the photo is seen at the end of the podcasts) and we laughed about how one woman could carry two buckets of water for laundry but it took two men to carry one bucket of water. Therefore, us each of us women were worth twice two men because we could each do double the work. Once I decided on doing a living history podcast that primarily focused on 19th century women and women within living history, I kept coming back to our private joke and turned it into a podcast name.
Would you be selling a finished garment or the fabric?
Just the fabric. It would be as if you went to the store and bought a corded petticoat back in the day-it would be a length of corded petticoat fabric that you would then cut to your height and make up to fit you.
I am quite interested
Yay! I've had some friends very interested as well. I have to finish this homespun fabric and then I'll look into how much thread I have and if I can do a small run to see how well the petticoat fabric sells before investing in a large order of yarn.
Aw, I think you’re being too hard on your teen self! Yes you have learned a lot and improved since, but everyone starts somewhere and whatever flaws you see now, the overall effect is really charming.
Thank you! I haven't even shown the channel my childhood historical costumes yet-those have some interesting sewing techniques and fabric choices for sure.