Years ago I had a lovely thing called "The DittyBag Book". See, a ditty-bag is the pouch a sail-maker would make to carry needles and awls and things. It had to be tough, but really handy ... so it became the way dewds would show their stuff. Lost the book, and never found anything like it.
But dig: merchant seamen most always made their clothes ... and betcha it was right handy stuff ... tough, easy to repair, didn't get in the way. But of course nobody bothered saving any, so the designs that /must/ have evolved are, well, lost ... so far as I can tell, anyhow.
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Date: 2004-02-27 03:58 am (UTC)Those two /absolutely rock/!!
Years ago I had a lovely thing called "The DittyBag Book". See, a ditty-bag is the pouch a sail-maker would make to carry needles and awls and things. It had to be tough, but really handy ... so it became the way dewds would show their stuff. Lost the book, and never found anything like it.
But dig: merchant seamen most always made their clothes ... and betcha it was right handy stuff ... tough, easy to repair, didn't get in the way. But of course nobody bothered saving any, so the designs that /must/ have evolved are, well, lost ... so far as I can tell, anyhow.
boy ... thanks for those links.
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Date: 2004-02-28 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-29 02:11 am (UTC):-)
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Date: 2004-02-27 04:35 am (UTC)wish i had that in hard copy reprint to go along with the several i have ( improvised explosives, unconvential warfare devices and techniques et al ).
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Date: 2004-02-28 04:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-28 07:32 am (UTC)