Friday, 4 January 2013
Wooden Shoes.
Wooden shoes, also known as Sabots by the French and Clogs by the Dutch were footwear for peasants. The wooden shoe that many people associate with the Dutch, was in fact widely used through Europe and the British Isles including Cymru and other Celts.
Wooden shoes were relatively inexpensive to buy, they protected the feet from the wet and from sharp objects so were excellent for work shoes.
Wooden shoes were relatively inexpensive to buy, they protected the feet from the wet and from sharp objects so were excellent for work shoes.
18th century French sabot.
18th century French sabots.
Three different styles of French sabot.
Dutch girls clogs with leather uppers and iron treads.
These are wedding shoes and I would guess at Dutch.
No date on these but I thought the ice cramps interesting. There seems very little difference to wooden shoes made in the 18th century to ones made later on.
I find this one interesting. Using a wooden shoe to deliver water to the stone seems to have been common practice among knife grinders. This chap is also wearing wooden shoes.
From Diderot, 1750s. A white cooper's shop. Note the wooden shoes on the floor.
Detail of the white cooper's shop by Diderot.
http://siftingthepast.com/2012/06/04/departure-from-a-french-inn-grimm-1775/ http://www.freewebs.com/spun_measured_and_cut_elbows/shoes.html http://historyofwoodenshoes.blogspot.com.au/2009/05/clogs.html
Thursday, 3 January 2013
A Farmer's Garters 1762.
David Garrick's "The Farmer's Return", ca. 1762,
These garters above the knee look very much like the ones seen in the movie "The patriot"
A Blanket as Clothing.
A Gypsy Family (18th century) Julius Caesar Ibbetson, © Bridgeman Art Library / Leeds Museums and Galleries (City Art Gallery) U.K.
Take note of the pin below the neck, this is more than likely made of wood.
Trade Goods. George Morgan's memorandum 1770.
18th Century Trade Goods. George
Morgan’s Memorandom. 1770
Goods I
have taken out of the Store &
put on board my boat. Viz
2 ps.lo Duck
2 Remnts. d[itt]o. 4% yds.
1 lb. Scan [skein] twine
15 Knives
7 Cotton Norman Han[dkerchie]fs
2 Pr. Boots
4 pr. plain Womens Shoes
3 pr. gold laced do.
1 pr. silver do.
do.
5 Tobacco Boxes
24
pr. Sleeve Buttons
1 gro. Fish Hooks
3 Closet Locks
4 pr. Shoe Buckles
1 pr. Knee do.
7 pr. Womens Cotton Stockgs.
7 pr. do. Shoes that came from Carlisle
10 ps. Ribbond
7 Remnts. computd. to be 8 ps. do.
9 ps. Silk Ferrit
6 Remnts. computd. to be 3 ps. do.
3 lb. White thread
70 lb. pepper
3 Keggs of
Powder
15 ps. Stroud
2 1 Silver hair plates
6 do. large ambands
40 do. narrow do.
54 do. wrist bands
11 gorgetsll
11 shells
23 doz. rings
74 pr. Sleeve Buttons
3 1 Hair Pipes
*The list Morgan mentions is on a separate
page in
the "Memorandums" and is set up
here line for line as
in the original.
18
112 yds. Blue StroydI2
1 ps. do.
do. 4 yds. cut
17 112 yds. Scarlet
Stroud
18
114 yds embossed Flannel
lnPieces. A "piece" was a unit
of measu
proximately twelve yards in length. Jacobs,
"Medals worn around the neck.
Ibid., p.
12Coarse woolen cloth, frequently trade
Indians for use as clothing and blankets.
Ibi
26 large Crosses
70 Small do.
72 Nose Crosses
105 Doz. & 3
Broaches
2 1 doz. & 10
hair do.
6 pr. Show Buckles
4 Knee ditto
1450 Black Wampum
11 pr. womens worsted stockings
5 lb. White Thread
2 Nests Gilt Trunks
Box
26 Bottles Mustard
12 ps. Check Hankerchiefs
8 lb. Coloured Thread
4 pr. womens thread mitts
2 114 lb. Coloured Thread
1 114 lb. White Thread
1 lb. Sealing Wax
39 Small Check Hank
Tuesday, 1 January 2013
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