Tribute to Our Irish Heritage || Part 1: Making 16th century Irish Clothes

#Irish #Irishclothes #16thcentury #handsewn
#irishbrat #kirtle #leine
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I wanted to honor my own Irish Heritage and that of my daughters’ so we embarked on studying 16th century Ireland and subsequently hand sewing clothing from that time and place.
Here is “Part 2” - • Tribute to Our Irish H...
The following are some of the resources I found on these subjects:
reconstructing...
Kass McGann’s book on Amazon about Irishwomen’s dress a.co/d/h9uRaCD
saffroncloth.w...
kilkennyarchae...
The Bedsheets I like to use for sewing projects (when the sheets are on sale)
amzn.to/4a6Qna6

[@acmulhern]

The amount of work that went into those outfits. And it's so nice to see you and your girls work on it together.

[@RachelCowan-pm9xo]

Thank you! It definitely took a lot of individual and team effort - especially since this was in addition to regular schoolwork and chores but we love doing this all together! And we all have learned skills and appreciation for what our foremothers have done that we won’t forget!

[@elisabethm9655]

A wonderful source of fabric is your local thrift shop. Sheets, curtains and blankets, when looked at as yardage can be very inspiring. Look for natural fibers such as linen, wool, cotton and even silk will show up. Enjoy!

[@RachelCowan-pm9xo]

@@elisabethm9655 Yes! Lots of KZbinrs I follow are able to find great things for their projects and I try to go to a thrift/second hand store first before all my projects. However, sadly, at least within an hour of where I live, there hasnt been much more than fleece blankets and/or small polyester curtains. Nothing linen, wool, or cotton. (Unless I wanted to buy, take apart, and sew together multiple clothing items…which…would not work for dresses unless one was going for the patchwork look). I think if the market continues on its current path, finding natural fibers at a lower cost like at a thrift store or as a discounted remnant in a larger store, is going to be harder and harder to find - especially depending on the demographics of where one lives. Even places on sites like Etsy may not be honest about their “natural” fabric and most of them cost as much as buying natural fabrics at an online wholesale fabric store.

[@penniecormier8770]

You did an amazing job of research, hand sewing and crochet of all these outfits!

[@RachelCowan-pm9xo]

Thank you ever so much!