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Barrows & Wights
Добавлен 27 фев 2021
Hey there! I'm Adrian (he/him) and this channel is an exploration of sewing, costumes, and crafts inspired by history and fantasy. Here you will see me make items for my vintage inspired wardrobe, historically inspired costumes, and fantastical cosplay outfits.
Improved Howe Part 1 | Introduction to my new old sewing machine
In this video, I introduce a new long term project: restoring an antique treadle sewing machine!
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Newspaper Ad in the Indianapolis News, Jan 2, 1918
Improved Howe Cabinet style for a Singer 66
newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=INN19180102-01.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
A-Z of American Sewing Machine Manufacturers
www.sewmuse.co.uk/american%20sewing%20machine%20manufacturers.htm
Reddit Post asking to identify Improved Howe machine:
www.reddit.com/r/vintagesewing/comments/lrwfg0/improved_howe_sewing_machine_question_see_comments/
Napanee Express - Mar...
www.barrowsandwights.com
IG: barrowsandwights
ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights
Transcripts for videos are available on my website.
Notes:
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Newspaper Ad in the Indianapolis News, Jan 2, 1918
Improved Howe Cabinet style for a Singer 66
newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=INN19180102-01.1.12&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
A-Z of American Sewing Machine Manufacturers
www.sewmuse.co.uk/american%20sewing%20machine%20manufacturers.htm
Reddit Post asking to identify Improved Howe machine:
www.reddit.com/r/vintagesewing/comments/lrwfg0/improved_howe_sewing_machine_question_see_comments/
Napanee Express - Mar...
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Picking, Combing, Carding, Spinning | Fleece Series Episode 2
Просмотров 3582 месяца назад
Follow along as I continue preparing and processing my Coopworth/Bluefaced Leceister cross fleece. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Tools Used: - Swing Picker - Fleece Combs - Brother Drum Carder - Ashford Kiwi 2 spinning wheel - Classy Squid drop spindle - Spare bobbins Attributions: Title Card: ...
Making a Londinium Hood
Просмотров 3653 месяца назад
Follow along as I make a Londinium Hood! This is an accessory to my ongoing medieval costume project. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Pattern: - Londinium Hood pattern by Opus Elenae (@opuselenae) ko-fi.com/s/ec44c3c4d8 - Lonidium Hood Dagging Expansion by Opus Elenae (@opuselenae) ko-fi.com/s/5f...
Making a Bag with Victorian Crazy Quilting
Просмотров 2835 месяцев назад
Follow along as I handsew a small bag for my planner and pencil cases uses Victorian crazy quilting techniques from the 1880s! www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: I used decorative stitches and techniques from this booklet: Instructions for Patchwork by J. F. Ingalls (Publisher) archive.org/details/i...
Costume Copy | Tiuri's Shirt
Просмотров 3818 месяцев назад
In this video, I show you how I made a recreation of the shirt worn by Tiuri in The Letter For the King. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Materials: - 4 yards thin cotton fabric, $20 ebay, overdyed with indigo dye - thread - 1 button for the collar - 2 pairs of snaps for the wrists - sewing machin...
Medieval Costume | Footwear
Просмотров 2,1 тыс.Год назад
Links to everything mentioned in this video are down below! This video is a compilation of small items that make up the footwear for my medieval costume. Follow along as I knit hose, waterproof some leather shoes, make hose ties, and weave garters. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Notes: Hose: Yarn: Lana Plantae www.lanaplantae.com/ Fingering weight Rambo...
Pirate Shirt | Simplicity Pattern 4923
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.Год назад
In this video, I make the pirate shirt from Simplicity pattern 4923. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Simplicity Pattern #4923 (XS,S,M) White Shirt: - White cotton fabric - 2 plastic buttons - White thread - 1/8" white cotton tape for shirt ties Lacy Vampire Shirt: - Black cotton bedsheet - Red ro...
Weaving The Fabric | Medieval Tunic Project
Просмотров 25 тыс.Год назад
In this video, I'm weaving the fabric for my medieval tunic project. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Tools: - Ashford 24" Rigid Heddle Loom - 15 dpi rigid heddle - warping board with removable pegs - wire hook to draw threads through the heddle - boat shuttles Warp: - 8 skeins 100g fingering weig...
18th Century Shirt - Patchwork | Historical Wardrobe
Просмотров 330Год назад
www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: I sewed a patchwork version of the 18th Century shirt that I have previously on this channel. I used the schematic from Bernadette Banner's pirate shirt video with the added neck gussets as described in Ora Lin's video about their version of this shirt. All of the ...
Natural Dye: Dyeing Green
Просмотров 7 тыс.Год назад
In this video, I go over the steps I use to dye things green with natural plant dyes. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: General Dye Equipment: NEVER MIX DYE EQUIPMENT WITH COOKING EQUIPMENT Many of the plants and chemicals used in dyeing are TOXIC. If you use a utensil, pot, or other equipment for ...
Halloween Spider Shirt | Making a Button Down Shirt
Просмотров 211Год назад
I make a simple button down shirt with some amazing spider pinstripe fabric for Halloween! www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Pattern: - pattern I took off of a shirt from Target - Simplicity 1544 Fabric: -Moda cotton - a pinstripe spider fabric Thread: - white polyester thread Sewing Machine: - Jan...
Making of The Witcher Cinematic
Просмотров 134Год назад
In this video, I show you how I made some of the props involved in my cinematic reveal for my Geralt shirt. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Swords: www.realswordmaster.com Culture Hustler Mirror: www.culturehustleusa.com/products/mirror?_pos=1&_sid=e15034951&_ss=r Ragnorok's End, Sword Blade Frog...
Cosplay Wardrobe: The Witcher | Sewing Geralt's Shirt
Просмотров 805Год назад
Follow along as I make Geralt's shirt from The Witcher series! www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: Pattern: Folkwear Patterns 116 Shirts of Russia & Ukraine Materials: - black cotton bedsheet - black polyester thread - Pride polyester grosgrain ribbon - vintage round buttons - scrap elastic for cuffs...
Cleaning and Sampling a Sheep Fleece | Fleece Series Episode 1
Просмотров 6822 года назад
This is the first video in a series about using a sheep fleece to make clothes. In this video, I clean the fleece and spin some samples to get an idea of what kind of yarn I want to make with it. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Notes: 00:04 Introducing the Fleece 04:00 Cleaning the Fleece 05:25 Informat...
Project Updates | May 2022
Просмотров 1652 года назад
In this video, I talk about projects currently in progress and upcoming for this channel. www.barrowsandwights.com IG: barrowsandwights ko-fi.com/barrowsandwights Transcripts for videos are available on my website. Attributions: Title Card: Photo by Anton Atanasov www.pexels.com/photo/landscape-photo-of-forest-1655901/ Logo designed and drawn by A.R. Gergler Background Music: Free Day (Acoustic...
A Brief History of the Knitting Machine | Machine Knitting a Tuck Stitch Sweater
Просмотров 2,7 тыс.2 года назад
A Brief History of the Knitting Machine | Machine Knitting a Tuck Stitch Sweater
Medieval Tunic: Prepare for Weaving!
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.2 года назад
Medieval Tunic: Prepare for Weaving!
Medieval Costume Update: Removing Slytherin
Просмотров 3562 года назад
Medieval Costume Update: Removing Slytherin
I Made a Peaky Blinders Newsboy Cap on an 1920s Sewing Machine
Просмотров 4,9 тыс.3 года назад
I Made a Peaky Blinders Newsboy Cap on an 1920s Sewing Machine
I Bought an Antique Sewing Machine! | Making a Sewing Machine Cover
Просмотров 6103 года назад
I Bought an Antique Sewing Machine! | Making a Sewing Machine Cover
Handsewing a Medieval Shirt and Braies
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.3 года назад
Handsewing a Medieval Shirt and Braies
I Started a Medieval Slytherin Costume in 2020
Просмотров 4193 года назад
I Started a Medieval Slytherin Costume in 2020
I have found the best combing happens with a fleece that has very little to no lanolin left. You can always oil it to help with the spinning. With fleeces that are still a little sticky or cotted I flick the locks first before either combing or carding. Time consuming but it means only one pass to have a very smooth prep with no junk, tangles, or short bits. For me it really depends on the fleece. I have had fleeces that I could comb open the locks with just one pass back and forth, and that I could sit and comb a dozen sets of locks before I got tired. Others were so challenging that I gave up. With a really big fleece like yours though, unless I'm prepping for many smaller projects, it's hard to feel like the time sink of combing is worth it. Anyway -- I loved the video. :)
What a magic find! Can't wait to see more of your journey in getting her up and running again.
What a find! 🤩
it's so cool to watch your whole research process!
Oh man that manual! What a treasure that is!
I've seen worse come back to life. ❤️
Ok, now I am curious: how many meters of thread you needed to hav enough fabric for a tunic?
now i'm just going through a backlog of your videos, hope that's okay! i find most human-sized clothing intimidating these days, simply because of the amount of fabric needed to make a single garment. i'm always worried i'm going to run out of material, and i feel like i never have enough cheap fabric to create proper mock-ups anymore. i mostly sew for dolls these days, and i'm never worried about running out of fabric for them!
The videos are there to be watched! Enjoy the backlog! Running out of fabric is always a worry, but I've made a whole bunch of button down shirts now, so I'm pretty confident in my yardage estimates now, lol.
i watched this whole playlist today! really very enjoyable. i'm thinking of starting a medieval outfit project very similar to this some time soon, and it's very cool to see someone else's process!
Thanks for watching! Good luck on your project!
If your fiber is wool...you can Full it and it will not fray. You will in fact have to pick a strand loose
I've never fulled wool intentionally before, so I didn't want to try it on this particular project, but it's definitely something I want to keep in mind to try on something smaller.
The sleeves seem a bit tight on version 2...and as for the gores...my experience is to start at the hem, and undo those side seams up to the point where it is comfy around your chest
I think the fabric is just prone to wrinkling after another layer. I remember the sleeves feeling much better around my upper arms after switching out the arm gussets for bigger ones. And the side seams were the last thing I sewed up on the mockup. 👍
OK...A QUICK WAY TO SPREAD YOUR WARP AFTER TIEING ON: Take that piece of scrap yarn. Shed A, pass it thru. Do Not Beat. Shed B, pass it thru. Do Not Beat. Shed A, pass it thru. Beat, Beat, Beat! In most cases, these three shots will completely spread your warp, ready for weaving. Hope you see this before your next project!
That's usually how I start my weaving projects, but I wanted to get this down as close to the bar as possible. When I do that 123-Beat method, it always packs down 2-2.5 inches away from the bar for me. I always doubt my warp yardage and this was one project where I did not want to fall short. For some reason, my brain was more comfortable with gaining back that like... .5-.75 inch. 😂
You are such a good tailor. I used to make Iron Age clothes. I had my own sheep and processed the wool from fleece to fabric. What fun.
Nice! I'm also working on a sheep to sweater project at the moment. I think my next fleece (in like... 5 years, lol) will be fleece to fabric.
Omg! You have SO much patience ! That is really a tedious task! You and all weavers are truly artisans !
It's not tedious if you enjoy it! It's also a great way to get through audiobooks or podcasts. 😂
Purple onion dyeing gives a oliveisch green in one step
Purple onion skins give me a sort of mustardy-olivey-yellow color unless I use an additive, but I wanted a more true green and blue-green. Yellow + indigo are my preferred greens.
When can we see the finished tunic? I love the green yarn you died. Really beautiful color.
@@angharadllewellyn2192 I finished the base tunic a couple of months ago and I have to edit the video, and I'm currently working on some hand woven trim to it. Fear not, those videos will be coming when I can finish them.
what beautiful medieval music and what talented weaving skills
Thanks!
@@barrowswights801 your welcome and keep up what you're doing
Cool!
Thanks!
Beautiful fabric, nice variations. I’m a weaver, but I’m not as patient with large projects. I really must label my stuff better
Thanks!
Repetitive stress injuries are no joke! I love how you really give the sense of how long the processes are. In my opinion it is really important for people to see this. If you have a garden you can use the waste wool as mulch.
I'll have to remember that tip for my next garden.
Don’t know why you popped up in my vid feed, but glad you did. I appreciate you taking the time to document the progression of your large and bold projects. I’m really glad you went for it and showed your glorious orange silk shirt off with all your costume gear. Very impressive and becoming. Seeing your costumes reminded me of L.E. Meyer’s Jacky Faber series. I listened to the audio of all of them recently. If you don’t know the series it’s about an orphan girl in a gang of pick pocket and thieves in 19th century London. Jacky longs to go to sea and see the world and she manages to get taken on a ship disguised as a boy and many adventures ensue. The audio includes many delightful sea shanties and ballads sung and accompanied by Jacky on fiddle and pipe, skills she adds to her quiver as she makes her way through life. It might serve as good listening during all that sewing and weaving.
Thanks for the recommendation!
You have convinced me that patching things together is the answer. Also, to be less fussy about buying fabric.
Thanks for recording this Adrian. It's really interesting to see the real time scale of such a massive project. I really like the term that Marce ( h@eybrownberry) used normalise long term making. I keep seeing people whip up a sweater in a week and it takes me months. I already have arthritis in my thumb joints and hips. I don't want to keep trying to perpete this nonsense. Making by hand takes time abd that's okay. I am definitely going to be documenting my progress in my crafting journal. I have just started to learn how to spin, so this is really interesting to me. My kid is really interested in spinning too. We were on holiday and they found a lot of fleece stuck to the fence. They gathered it all up and washed it. What is a small investment they can make to give it a go. We looked at carding combs snd they are £50-60 even second hand. Is there a lower price option they can try?
I'd love to see more dyeing.
That is a Faux French Seam.
Last Oct I accepted a job, processing 2 Jacob fleeces, the yarn from which was to be a Christmas present. Fortunately she wanted a rustic yarn, which ended up varying from almost white to almost black. (I got my picker after that job. Would have been considerably faster). I’m always surprised by the ‘loss’ in washing, picking, carding. About half for these Jacobs. Your singles look lovely! Sorry about the wrist pain. Try clamping one comb?? Or a hackle? I know, more fiber toys…. Love your dog.
Thank you for another enjoyable video. I’m looking forward to the next episode.
😮😮 the swing picker looks like a torture device. Edit: lol i commented this right before you said the same thing. What a cool tool
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Have you ever read Silas manner?
Nice, but it is an awful lot of work to get started. Sorry, but lovely fr you
Great work! I love the dagging. I should really make one of these. I tried drafting my own a few years ago and it just didnt fit my melon head very well. 😅
Wonder what uses the "tail" may have been. Like your handwarmers, did you make them(starting at thumb?) ? The hood looks practical and well as nice !
As far as dress historians have worked out, the liripipe was mostly a status symbol - a way of saying "I have so much money that I can afford to *waste fabric* by putting a useless tail on my hood". Though there's also records of different games played with hoods, usually with a knot tied in the liripipes.
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Well done! The hand dyed lining contrasted beautifully with the wool . Nice choice for escutcheon trim ( what a tongue twister word😹) Im inspired to make a Jersey knit or a quilted version for non renfair wear maybe 😸
I've read that traditionally, in Europe, Lincoln green was produced by dyeing with weld (yellow) then woad (blue). I've also seen a lovely apple green produced with privet berries. I haven't yet tried that myself but have gathered berries and frozen them for later use. I've done a little indigo dyeing before, and avocado and onion skins. Different mordants will give different shades of colour, though I think indigo doesn't need mordanting.
I meant to add, thanks for the lovely video!
Thanks for watching! You are correct, indigo doesn't need mordanting. Indigo and woad actually function the same way as a dye, which is different from most other natural dyes. I can't remember which book I was reading that talked about the science of it (years ago, lol), but it's pretty neat stuff!
Great video! I am information gathering mode and this video was very helpful! This is all new to me, but since building our off grid home and cultivating a permaculture garden, it has inevitably led to wondering if we could grow flax or obtain wool to spin our own yarn and ultimately begin making our own fabric and clothing! It seems to be such an enormous undertaking, but would be so incredibly satisfying to accomplish! Part of the journey to true self-sufficiency.
If you are just starting I would recommend wool as it is relatively easy to process and spin (my favourite is Merino). You can always buy some and try it out relatively cheap with a dropspindle.
Great video.
Thanks!
Hey there! What's that stitch that you do in orange/red to sign off your weaving? I'm just learning weaving right now and haven't seen it before!
You can find tutorials on that stitch by searching for "hem stitch." I'm not 100% sure I'm actually doing it right in this video. I really should look it up every time because it helps keep the end from fraying, but sometimes I just wing it based on my vague memories. 😆
As a spinner and someone trying to learn weaving, thank you for the details of yarn size, heddle size etc….
No problem!
Very cool! You are so talented!
Thank you!
I enjoyed watching you warp and weave, nice choice in music too. I also have projects that have been going on for years. By the way my favorite waistcoat was the plaid one with pink/red;. did you make that?
I did! And it's always nice to hear that I'm not the only one with WIPs that take a long time. 👍
This was lovely to watch. I keep telling myself that I don't need another craft hobby. Especially as looms take up so much space. I love the colour and how your fabric turned out. I absolutely love the black waistcoat you wore at the start and a couple of points in the middle.
I clicked in to see if part two was up. I guess I'll just have to watch another video instead. Ah shucks, you got me :P I like the dog too. Pet content is always welcome
Yeah, this is a project that's taking a while, so no follow up yet. I'm hoping to get the next part out soon though!
@@bloodiedXangel get a rigid heddle loom. I hang my 24” schadt on hooks on the wall, no floor space until I use it. It sits on my rocket when I weave
Did you end up finishing it?
Still working on it. Life gets in the way, you know how it is. Hopefully soon though!
Me: *rage at weaving being annoying* *puts it to the side* This video: *pops up in my feed* *is inspiring* Me: *looks over at loom* Goddamnit.
That's always the way, isn't it? 😆
I'm brimming with admiration, so coooooool
Thank you!
Fun project. Lovely finishes!
Thank you!
Looks comfortable!
Piecing is period!
I have dyed wool with walnutshells and got medium brown color😊 This was a very interesting video! 👌
Thanks!