felt cloak / traditional Georgian wool coat

[Gcckoka]

this is what my ancestors were wearing , most of shepherds still wear it and people on weddings and such things wear it.
I have it at home but Icant wear it anywhere
this vid shows how its made.

[video=youtube;qHMyGsWpUXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHMyGsWpUXA[/video]

 

[Toddy]

Good to see

We make felt like that too, and we 'walk' tartan and tweed by hand that way as well to full the cloth.

Folks think it's easy…..for the first two or three minutes.

I like threads like this, ones that show people actually making

Thank you for sharing.

cheers,
Toddy

 

[British Red]

That is a seriously cool looking garment!

 

[Drain Bamaged]

Thank you.

DB

 

[Twodogs]

Wow thats a lot of work .....

 

[Toddy]

Uhuh but that's real boiled wool, real felted just about bullet proof wool. It's warm, it's windproof, it not only sheds the rain but doesn't soak it in easily either.

From Georgia to North Africa (look at traditional Tunisian ones) to the Basques to the Mongolian yurts and gets….same type of work, same processes and really good felt at the end.

M

 

[Macaroon]

That's such a good film; what a great set of skills those people have and what a great cloak to produce. Serious weather protection there and fabulous to look at, I noticed the big loop handles inside for to hold it closed up against the body. I can imagine that being extremely comfortable after it moulds to the wearer.

Great post, thank you.

 

[Toddy]

apj1974's clergyman's cloak has similar handles at the front. He mentioned that it was a tidy thing to slip a belt through to keep the cloak closed too.
https://www.jandmsewing.com/shop/Products/Cloaks/Product/Cloak/

Look at the shape….same basic design again

M

 

[Gcckoka]

Shepherds and just people used to sleep in those cloaks at night , they had something to sleep on and something to cover with at the same time .
Once me and my father were hunting in the mountains and we had to sleep in those , it was a rainy night and in the morning my fathers friend who was with us saw that the cloak which he has been sleeping was all rotten and was covered with somekind of worms , that was a fun thing for us to watch and very bad feeling for him

 

[Dr Toerag]

I've slept in the rain in a normal woven woolen cloak once. I got woken in the night by a frog dropping on me from the tree I was sheltering under. Lovely and dry and warm even so, except for the frogface.

 

[mrcharly]

At about 13:40 in the video they are shaking something over the cloak; what is it?

It's done again near the end and I think it is just water.

 

[sandbender]

Thanks for that.

This is a pic of the Hungarian equivalent, again made of felted wool...

...sometimes with fleece atop that.

It can get cold on the plains.

For those who liked Gcckoka's photo in this threads first post, some similar garments feature in the photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who photographed much of what was then Tsarist Russia between 1907 and 1912.

 

[Gcckoka]

At about 13:40 in the video they are shaking something over the cloak; what is it?

It's done again near the end and I think it is just water.

Yes it is water

 

[Macaroon]

For those who liked Gcckoka's photo in this threads first post, some similar garments feature in the photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, who photographed much of what was then Tsarist Russia between 1907 and 1912.

That's a great link, some good pictures there; so good, in fact, that I've pinched the watermelon seller as wallpaper

 

[Gcckoka]

Here is my nabadi, i'll be making a video of an overnight with it hope one day soon, just like the old timers

 

[Tengu]

Theres a Khantsi!

Some months back I was playing with the Museum of Plastics horn collection, but I dont remember one of those.

 

[Gcckoka]

Theres a Khantsi!

Some months back I was playing with the Museum of Plastics horn collection, but I dont remember one of those.

yep that's a kantsi , 800-900 gram of wine goes in , my father drank it when I was born and I drink it on some very very special days only

 

[Janne]

I think your cape looks amazing. Very elegant and warm!

 

[Trotsky]

I saw this thread when it was new but, I've only just had chance to watch the video. I found it absolutely enthralling watching them make the cloak, I also loved the simple ingenuity of the self closing gate. This of course leaves only one question, where might someone like me buy one of these cloaks? Normally I'm all for making everything I can myself but, I'm confident this is beyond me so if I could I'd rather give my business to someone like the women in the video. A black Nabadi would keep me snug through any winter the UK is ever likely to see!

 

[Janne]

You can make it yourself, you just need a flock of sheep and some time!
felting is an ancient skill.