[Ansteorra] period cotton
Marc Carlson
marccarlson20 at hotmail.com
Thu Sep 21 11:10:47 PDT 2006
>Stefan li Rous StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
>>I should mention that cotton has one spectacular side benefit things
>>you make in it dont last as long as things made from wool and cotton, so
>>your embarrassing earlier projects rarely hang around for a long time.
>err, I think you mean "wool and linen". Linen and hemp do last much better
>than cotton...
You are correct -I mistyped. (Being sarcastic workes SO much better if you
proofread...)
>>Wool is hot in the summer
>>Guess what? So is cotton. So is standing around naked. Summer in
>>Ansteorra is Hot. Always has been, probably always will be. And yes, I
>>wear layers of wool and linen in the summer.
>How can you manage to do this? Or does a layer of linen under the wool
>actually make it cooler than using the wool alone? Even though linen was
>seldom used for outer wear in period, in part because it doesn't dye well,
>I've been using a single layer of modern, petrochemical dyed linen for my
>summer tunics because it is a bit cooler than cotton broadcloth. I'd like
>to find linen that was as thin as the broadcloth though with the thinness
>of the broadcloth and the open weave and breathability of the linen.
The layering does help. So does having air movement In general, the wool
serves as an insulator both directions, the linen pulls the moisture away
from the body, and the breeze goes through the wool, evaporates the water
from the linen and cools the inside of the garment (as oppose dto cotton,
which doesn't evaporate water as well, so when it soaks up the moisture, it
just stays wet). Admittedly, I prefer to use summer wieght wools in the
summer, but currently all my woolens are multi-season.
Granted, since I knew the most recent circle meeting was goinmg to likely be
in a place with minimal air movement, I wore lower class linen jerkin
instead of the woolen doublet.
>But maybe you have a secret with wool, that I've been unaware of?
Just wearing it correctly, and not forgetting that everyone's hot. At
worst, I'm only a little hotter than some, and (temperature-wise) cooler
than most.
Marc/Diarmaid
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