Posts Tagged ‘living archeology’
My Modern Marx-Etzel Trousers
I’ve been making the trousers from the book Bog Fashion. Read about this interesting pattern in last week’s post. This is where we left off last week, a pinned-together pair of trousers with an enormous waist: I’ve spent the past week thinking about how to manage the wide waist and finish off the trousers. No-one…
Read MoreMaking the Marx-Etzel Trousers from Bog Fashion
For Christmas I received the book Bog Fashion – Re-creating Bronze and Iron Age Fashions by Nicole DeRushie, and it was such an interesting read I finished it in two sittings. The book describes textile finds from bogs and other sources in Northern and Western Europe, and then shows how they might be re-created. Patterns…
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