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Main => The Armoury => Topic started by: Sir Brian on 2010-05-03, 14:36:24
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I am contemplating on overhauling my harness a little bit, namely redoing my surcoat in a type of cloth more appropriate to the period of my harness. I would probably focus on just my primary color/metal, i.e. green and yellow. What limited research I conducted via the internet confirmed what I already knew about linen being used, but what other types of cloth were available that would’ve been used in making surcoats? ???
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Primarily Linen, Wool, and possibly silk. And that's pretty much it. :)
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Right! Animal, vegetable or um worm. :D
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Fabrics
Linen
* Fabrics - Store.com - Awesome linen at a good price.
* Fashion Fabrics Club - Great linen quality
Wool
* Woolrich Fabrics - Great selection but not the lowest prices; if you need a specific color they likely have it.
* Fashion Fabrics Club - Often has good light weight wools in stock
* BBlack and Sons - Good coat weight wool.
* Denver Fabrics - Good rotating stock.
* Fabric.com - Hit or miss on their stock.
* Hamilton Dry Goods - Email first, they don't update their site often.
* Carolina Calicoes - They have more than is on their website. Email them for what they have is stock. Warning they travel allot and are slow to email back sometimes.
Hemp
* Hemp Traders
Silk
* Rupert, Gibbon & Spider, Inc.
* Thai Silks
* Dharma Trading Co.
i would go for 100% linen from http://www.fabrics-store.com/ say around the 5.3 oz (middle of the road) thickness.
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Thank you Sir Wolf! :)