The Welsh Viking | Repairing Your Historical Clothing is Period (I promise!) @TheWelshViking | Uploaded April 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
We've all heard the old historical reenactment chestnut that "people in the past didn't repair their clothes" or even that "soldiers wouldn't have time to repair their kit in the field".
Horse apples. HORSE APPLES, I SAY.
There is so much evidence for historical people, both civilian and military, fixing and repairing their clothing that this video will have not one, but two Jimmy rants on the subject! Join me as we look at some of my favourite historical clothes from Hedeby, Bernuthsfeld, Egypt, Scotland, and Norway that have been patched, darned, sewn, trimmed, re-hemmed, bodged, cobbled, and translated into a new lease of life.
May it inspire you to fix that sock, sew up that hole in the crotch of your pants that you know you really should fix soon (yeah, same), or just allow you to see pictures of me from a decade ago.
Fix your kit. And clean your maille, you animals!
Bit of reading:
That tunic: gallerysearch.ds.man.ac.uk/Detail/22585
costumehistorian.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-do-and-mend-early-modern-style.html
blog.nms.ac.uk/2022/05/06/a-stitch-in-time-300-years-of-visible-mending
Find me elsewhere:
Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
New merch: the-welsh-viking.creator-spring.com
My actual website: welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY
We've all heard the old historical reenactment chestnut that "people in the past didn't repair their clothes" or even that "soldiers wouldn't have time to repair their kit in the field".
Horse apples. HORSE APPLES, I SAY.
There is so much evidence for historical people, both civilian and military, fixing and repairing their clothing that this video will have not one, but two Jimmy rants on the subject! Join me as we look at some of my favourite historical clothes from Hedeby, Bernuthsfeld, Egypt, Scotland, and Norway that have been patched, darned, sewn, trimmed, re-hemmed, bodged, cobbled, and translated into a new lease of life.
May it inspire you to fix that sock, sew up that hole in the crotch of your pants that you know you really should fix soon (yeah, same), or just allow you to see pictures of me from a decade ago.
Fix your kit. And clean your maille, you animals!
Bit of reading:
That tunic: gallerysearch.ds.man.ac.uk/Detail/22585
costumehistorian.blogspot.com/2012/09/make-do-and-mend-early-modern-style.html
blog.nms.ac.uk/2022/05/06/a-stitch-in-time-300-years-of-visible-mending
Find me elsewhere:
Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com
Patreon: patreon.com/jimmyjohnson
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thewelshviking
New merch: the-welsh-viking.creator-spring.com
My actual website: welshviking.com
Insta: @littlewelshviking
Letters, parcels, packages?
The Welsh Viking,
PO Box 821,
YORK,
YO1 0PY
