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Offline Eric S Campbell

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Keeping your hands warm, the 18th century way
« on: January 05, 2009, 09:59:16 PM »
Keeping your hands warm, the 18th century way. How do you do this in winter weather? My tim ein the woods this year got me thinking. What are ome PC option for 18th century gloves, mittens, fingerless gloves ect.? I know there were knitted mittens, and the military had leather gloves. But how common were plain mittens sewn out of wool fabric? What was used in the 18th century?

   I AM NOT LOOKING FOR THEY COULD HAVE, THEY MIGHT HAVES, OR ANY ANSWERS LIKE THAT. IAM LOOKING FOR SOLID ANSWERS THAT CAN BE BACKED UP WITH DOCUMENTATION OR ARTIFACTS.
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2009, 10:47:57 PM »
I am very interested in seeing something with documentation as well.  Let me know if you find anything, Eric.  :)
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« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2009, 11:14:21 PM »
Try Diderot.  Sewn cloth mittens.
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« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2009, 11:23:27 PM »
out of wool cloth 100% correct.  Mittens all the way. am going to be working on some for myself when i get the pattern fingered out ha,ha,ha.  I have read that you want to make them from wool that is presrunk for sure. Seen image of french gloves and they are way crazy looking. way crazy...  hold on i found the image of the french mitts and gloves. here you go
http://s210.photobucket.com/albums/bb17 ... cf1313.jpg
let me know what you think?
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« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2009, 11:44:36 PM »
How about these that Pichou posted.. elsewhere:



He posted they were Ojibwe, I don't know more.. ('cept I wanna pair)
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2009, 04:28:25 AM »
Quote from: "Riley/MN"
How about these that Pichou posted.. elsewhere:



He posted they were Ojibwe, I don't know more.. ('cept I wanna pair)

Those pretty much look like same as I saw video called
Cree hunters of Mistassini from 1974 made from beaver belt
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« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2009, 06:38:19 PM »
Quote from: "Riley/MN"
How about these that Pichou posted.. elsewhere:
He posted they were Ojibwe, I don't know more.. ('cept I wanna pair)

Are you calling me on that?  8)
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« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2009, 06:50:01 PM »
Quote from: "Pichou"
Are you calling me on that?

  :)

Thanks Pichou, 'course you know we'll be lookin around there for hours now, right?

Silly me... searched under "Chippewa" and they aren't there. Didn't realize there was "Ojibwa" farther down.
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« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2009, 07:22:41 PM »
Wow, how about these, Eric:


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Catalog No:   16 / 8720 AB
Culture:   THOMPSON RIVER
Locale:   BC
Country:   CANADA
Material:   BARK (CEDAR), FUR (SQUIRREL?), HIDE, THREAD
Dimensions:   A)L:28 W:18.5 H:4 B)L:27 W:19 H:5 [in CM]
Donor:   TEIT, JAMES
Accession No:   1901-2
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« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2009, 07:25:12 PM »
Hey they even have the strings on them that my mother put on the ones I had.
Very interesting.
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« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2009, 11:40:49 AM »
Seems lie I have a new project sometime! Those mittens are crazy!
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« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2009, 02:06:20 PM »
somewhere areound here  i have a pattern for those that pichou posted ??
 i think it used to be on native tech ???
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