When pushing a pin, metal or wooden through cloth, if you spin it in your fingers, it will push the fibres apart rather than breaking any. Your cloth will last longer.
Weave a wool blanket from scratch so you’ll know that no peasant ever poked a stick through a fine woven wool blanket like this. 😂 just the moving around in the wearing of the blanket as a cloak would destroy the blanket over time in that area. Our ancestors didn’t have the luxury of just buying a new machine made, factory perfect, close woven wool blanket after they destroyed the first one like a rich person would with brooches. 😂. Yes, you will find rich people in paintings wearing such brooches on fabrics. But you will only find peasants wearing them on knitted or crocheted fabric or the most coarsely loose woven fabric. A peasant would tie a belt, sash, or rope around the waist, and wear the blanket as a coat, doubled across the breast.
@Chelsea Craft the thing is.... you are 1000% right just based on the fact that people didn't crochet or even knit yet, depending on how far you go back. Both are surprisingly relatively new skills we have. And this kind of cloak closure is pretty old. It's not what you wanted to say.... but it's not a lie.
Seasonal craft that anyone can do. The cloak this produces looks cool. Edit: I got out for a hike today, found some greenbriar and made the ring. Now I'll look for some good wood for a pin.
You could use hawthorn thorns for a needle, those things sometimes grow to ridiculous sizes. And you need literally nothing to use those, just cut them off the shrub
@@donaldasayers Good point, though some folks get "cold" when the temp drops below 60 - AND, I have seen a minus 13 Fahrenheit. Not often, but it has happened!
That's very cool! That metal version you're wearing, also called a penannular brooch, dates back to the Romans and Vikings. You can find examples of similar designs displayed in museums. Nice to see a wood version of it, that's a great idea.
The best vine I have found for bending is wisteria (if you get the runners on top of the round) , what you got there looks like it might be Japanese hunny suckle which is also good
Another Pa native , there is nothing like people that come out of the Hollows and Wood of Pennsylvania. We are just built different. Doesn’t matter your sex or how cute you are if you are from Pennsylvania you are an excellent tracker and hunter and survivor. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 love this video!!! Great content!
That's super cool! Bushcrafty AF!! I have a wool blanket pin that you made,it rides in my belt pouch that you also made 😀 that are awesome, but definitely will have to try this one out for sure!! Can't wait for the new knifes to release. Another awesome video as always brother 👍 💪
Lmao you read our minds. After the last video I knew people were gonna be asking about that pin. I admit, I myself jumped on Amazon but didn't see any I liked. And then here you come making a video on how to make your own. Now THAT I can get behind. And respect. Well done 😁👍
Bro, one tip i learned, don't do this with the heavy army surplus wool blanket for casual use. it's too heavy. also, i would have been the guy to invent a sweater from a blanket because when i pin it it chokes me 😂 i can't stand having things pull against my throat even lightly, and it just always happens when i try to affix a blanket to me. i would have figured out how to make it sit evenly and pull downward instead of back. i guess that's why we have fitted clothing lol
If you buy a blanket pin, get one with a smooth ring. One with a twisted ring (like the shape of the primitive one he made) will be hard to rotate, but still possible. Speaking from experience.
I like this project a lot! It's something I can do with my 4yo. We watch your videos together. Like my dad and I watched The Southern Sportsman when I was 4yo. Hopefully in a couple years my son and I will make it to one of your courses, and he will have some base skills already to go!
Very interesting video, i recently put willow cuttings in a bit neglected part of my garden and it's doing really well, has so many uses. Might use some of it for this kind of project.
When Winter, Spring etc. are is easy to know once you know that the start of winter is winter solctice and start of summer is summer solstice. So 21.12 and 21.06 respectively. Spring and Autumn are henceforth 21.03 and 21.09 Hope that helped remembering it.
Hmm. my dad has grape vines, and they need to get thinned as new shoots grow in, so there are a lot of fresh cuttings. I bet those would work great for this.
This video had caught my eye since I'd seen one of these before but never knew what it was or how it worked besides that it held cloth on you. I wanted one and might make one now that I know how, might even just 3d print one.
already have some in various sizes snagged one at a Flea Market once many years ago ordered some from Dixie Gunworks years back can be found at National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association meets, Friendship, IN or make yourself one... some of these have fairly thick pins and are difficult with tight weaves thinner pins are better then there's some like giant safety pins nice to have PA...? thought you're in OH
👏👏👏...Yeah great very bushcrafty... Now what about making one in between the old fashioned and the improvised primitive tec... 🤔... What about using a carabiner and some needle...?
As cool as hand forged pins are, remember that oz. Add up to lbs. We live in the 21st century, That's why I put buttons on my wool blanket. Sewing buttons and holes isn't that hard.
A smooth round stone & a hair tie work as a quick "monk's button." Push the stone up from underneath, twist the tie around the front. No pin, no holes, no stitch, no fuss.
Weird question. If you can pin the blanket in one direction with the sharpened twig, why can you not pin in the perpendicular direction with another and achieve a similar effect? Seems to work in ladies hair, a fiber way more slippery than wool.
