Thank you! It definitely took a lot of individual and team effort - especially since this was in addition to regular schoolwork and chores but we love doing this all together! And we all have learned skills and appreciation for what our foremothers have done that we won’t forget!
A wonderful source of fabric is your local thrift shop. Sheets, curtains and blankets, when looked at as yardage can be very inspiring. Look for natural fibers such as linen, wool, cotton and even silk will show up. Enjoy!
@@elisabethm9655 Yes! Lots of RUclipsrs I follow are able to find great things for their projects and I try to go to a thrift/second hand store first before all my projects. However, sadly, at least within an hour of where I live, there hasnt been much more than fleece blankets and/or small polyester curtains. Nothing linen, wool, or cotton. (Unless I wanted to buy, take apart, and sew together multiple clothing items…which…would not work for dresses unless one was going for the patchwork look). I think if the market continues on its current path, finding natural fibers at a lower cost like at a thrift store or as a discounted remnant in a larger store, is going to be harder and harder to find - especially depending on the demographics of where one lives. Even places on sites like Etsy may not be honest about their “natural” fabric and most of them cost as much as buying natural fabrics at an online wholesale fabric store.
Green was adopted from the concept that Irish nationalism meant also to be Catholic and the shamrock that was used by St Patrick to explain the holy Trinity which was green. In pagan Ireland it was actually bad luck to wear green, so turning that belief upside down was also the Christian attempt to upset paganism, much like churches were built on pagan sacred sites to eclipse the pagan beliefs system. Saffron was the colour of men and women of stature in Gaelic ireland and there was a common Atlantic trade between Catholic Ireland and Spain from whence saffron was importeed into Ireland from. The Gaelic shirt was called "Léine croch" in Gaelic which means crocus (saffron) dyed linen (Léine). Saffron should be the colour of the Irish but Protestantism adopted orange from the Dutch king William of orange so that put paid to any colour closly matching it. Therefore Green was adoted in it's stead by Catholic nationalists, Incidently the more linen you wore also reflected your stature (fashion has always been abouit stature ) and so by pleating linen in abundance you could show off your wealth and stature, something which the English king Henry 11 did not like the Irish doing , he thought that the irish dressed above their station, so he curtailed the length that the Irish could wear and show off. These decrees of inhibiting Irish traditional dress , even haircuts were included in draconian laws against Irish culture called the "Statutes of Kilkenny" to try to turn the Irish into good English citizens in Ireland. Bhain mé taitneamh as do fhís ar fad.
@@tristanuaceithearnaigh7660 great input thank you! There has been so much we have learned through this study that I wish I had the time to put it all into this or another video. But I also keep in mind that though my ancestors were Irish, I am not, I’m American, and I do not have a history degree so whatever I say or add must be taken with a grain of salt. I just love learning it all and sharing what I can with my children and friends.
The amount of work that went into those outfits. And it's so nice to see you and your girls work on it together.
Thank you! It definitely took a lot of individual and team effort - especially since this was in addition to regular schoolwork and chores but we love doing this all together! And we all have learned skills and appreciation for what our foremothers have done that we won’t forget!
A wonderful source of fabric is your local thrift shop. Sheets, curtains and blankets, when looked at as yardage can be very inspiring. Look for natural fibers such as linen, wool, cotton and even silk will show up. Enjoy!
@@elisabethm9655 Yes! Lots of RUclipsrs I follow are able to find great things for their projects and I try to go to a thrift/second hand store first before all my projects. However, sadly, at least within an hour of where I live, there hasnt been much more than fleece blankets and/or small polyester curtains. Nothing linen, wool, or cotton. (Unless I wanted to buy, take apart, and sew together multiple clothing items…which…would not work for dresses unless one was going for the patchwork look). I think if the market continues on its current path, finding natural fibers at a lower cost like at a thrift store or as a discounted remnant in a larger store, is going to be harder and harder to find - especially depending on the demographics of where one lives. Even places on sites like Etsy may not be honest about their “natural” fabric and most of them cost as much as buying natural fabrics at an online wholesale fabric store.
You did an amazing job of research, hand sewing and crochet of all these outfits!
Thank you ever so much!
Green was adopted from the concept that Irish nationalism meant also to be Catholic and the shamrock that was used by St Patrick to explain the holy Trinity which was green. In pagan Ireland it was actually bad luck to wear green, so turning that belief upside down was also the Christian attempt to upset paganism, much like churches were built on pagan sacred sites to eclipse the pagan beliefs system. Saffron was the colour of men and women of stature in Gaelic ireland and there was a common Atlantic trade between Catholic Ireland and Spain from whence saffron was importeed into Ireland from.
The Gaelic shirt was called "Léine croch" in Gaelic which means crocus (saffron) dyed linen (Léine). Saffron should be the colour of the Irish but Protestantism adopted orange from the Dutch king William of orange so that put paid to any colour closly matching it. Therefore Green was adoted in it's stead by Catholic nationalists,
Incidently the more linen you wore also reflected your stature (fashion has always been abouit stature ) and so by pleating linen in abundance you could show off your wealth and stature, something which the English king Henry 11 did not like the Irish doing , he thought that the irish dressed above their station, so he curtailed the length that the Irish could wear and show off. These decrees of inhibiting Irish traditional dress , even haircuts were included in draconian laws against Irish culture called the "Statutes of Kilkenny" to try to turn the Irish into good English citizens in Ireland.
Bhain mé taitneamh as do fhís ar fad.
@@tristanuaceithearnaigh7660 great input thank you! There has been so much we have learned through this study that I wish I had the time to put it all into this or another video. But I also keep in mind that though my ancestors were Irish, I am not, I’m American, and I do not have a history degree so whatever I say or add must be taken with a grain of salt. I just love learning it all and sharing what I can with my children and friends.