Making Stone Age Clothes.

[TeeDee]

Should be a nice little experiment and tutorial.

 

[Toddy]

If you ever get a chance to see Patrick McGlinchey's (Backwoods Survival) kit, and if you have any skills at all, you will be entranced. His workmanship is not just really, really, good, but his clothing is fit for purpose too. None of this 'has to be crude, it's the neolithic' rot. It's beautifully made, and from what we know of the suriving pieces, it's right.

I'm going to watch the video, but I have to say that trousers are a cloth thing, not skins. Inuit made short breeches, but everyone else seems to start with a belt and hang leggings on that, and uses a 'breech clout.'

M

 

[Broch]

If you ever get a chance to see Patrick McGlinchey's (Backwoods Survival) kit, and if you have any skills at all, you will be entranced. His workmanship is not just really, really, good, but his clothing is fit for purpose too. None of this 'has to be crude, it's the neolithic' rot. It's beautifully made, and from what we know of the suriving pieces, it's right.

I'm going to watch the video, but I have to say that trousers are a cloth thing, not skins. Inuit made short breeches, but everyone else seems to start with a belt and hang leggings on that, and uses a 'breech clout.'

M

Yeh, he explains that getting in and out of his boat on camera would be less than acceptable if he used leggings and breech clout

 

[TeeDee]

Making a house. No doubt some will disagree with how he does it but still , more entertaining than TV

 

[Tengu]

Thats a charcoal burners hut.

Does he have an adder?

(Im glad I work in the Iron Age...)

 

[John Fenna]

en there, done that - though I did not cure the skins myself ...
The full Mesolithic/Neolithic cozzie ...

 

[Tengu]

Watched that again.

His clothes are rather fitted, arent they?

Given Ethnographic examples, folk wore everything from nothing to quite sophisticated kit in the Mesolithic.

Which isnt much help.

i suspect in this country in summer they wore very little.

 

[demented dale]

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The full Mesolithic/Neolithic cozzie ...

Thats decent John. I like that x

 

[Tengu]

I suppose if you can afford buckskin, you have little option except to turn it into a business suit.