Available on the 25th of April, 2025

Bog Fashion – Recreating bronze and iron age clothes

Launch your crafting further back in time than any sewing guide has offered before.

For thousands of years, prehistoric people made beautiful, practical garments designed to keep the elements at bay, taking full advantage of the natural properties of plant and animal fibres.

Join historian and fibre artist Nicole DeRushie as she studies the textile finds from bogs and other sources in order to explore Bronze and Iron Age fashion from Northern and Western Europe.

In Bog Fashion you will discover the impressive skills behind these garments and find an appreciation for the many ways these clothes still speak to us today.

INCLUDED:
This book provides the history behind some of the most prominent finds as well as patterns and instructions for 13 ancient garments and accessories you can make at home.

Author: Nicole DeRushie
Details: Hard Cover, 214 x 266 mm, 192 pages including patterns and instructions for 13 ancient garments and accessories you can make at home.
Language: English
ISBN:​ 978-91-981056-9-8

Sample pages:

Table of Contents

The Study of Prehistoric Clothing

• Bogs
• Nordic Prehistory Research
• Written Sources and Outside Perspectives
• The Question of Authenticity

Materials, Tools and Techniques

• Wool
• Linen
• Other Fibres

• Tabby
• Twill

• Bronze Age
• Iron Age

• Common Iron Age Colours
• Choosing Colour
• Walnut Dyeing
• – Instructions Walnut Dye

• – Instructions Blackthorn Pins

• – Instructions Bone Needle

• Stopper Knot
• Overstitching
• Double-Turn Hem
• Blanket Stitch
• Running Stitch
• Flat-Felled Seams
• Saddle Stitch

• Cloak
• – Instructions Rectangular Cloak
• – Instructions Gerum Cloak

• – Instructions Tubular Wrap Garments

• – Instructions Bronze Age T-Tunic

• – Instructions Sleeveless Tunic

• – Instructions Sleeved Tunic

• – Instructions Skirt

• – Instructions Trousers

• – Instructions Shoes

• – Instructions Belt

• Spectacle Fibula
• – Instructions Spectacle Fibula

• – Instructions Bow Fibula

• – Instructions Birch Bark Hat

• Written Sources
• Glossary
• Resources
• Further Reading

Sample pages:

Available on the 25th of April, 2025

Bog Fashion – Recreating Bronze and Iron Age Clothes

Author: Nicole DeRushie
Details: Hard Cover, 214 x 266 mm, 192 pages including patterns and instructions for 13 ancient garments and accessories you can make at home.
Language: English
ISBN: 978-91-981056-9-8

Launch your crafting further back in time than any sewing guide has offered before.

For thousands of years, prehistoric people made beautiful, practical garments designed to keep the elements at bay, taking full advantage of the natural properties of plant and animal fibres.

Join historian and fibre artist Nicole DeRushie as she studies the textile finds from bogs and other sources in order to explore Bronze and Iron Age fashion from Northern and Western Europe.

In Bog Fashion you will discover the impressive skills behind these garments and find an appreciation for the many ways these clothes still speak to us today.

INCLUDED:
This book provides the history behind some of the most prominent finds as well as patterns and instructions for 13 ancient garments and accessories you can make at home.

Table of Contents

The Study of Prehistoric Clothing

• Bogs
• Nordic Prehistory Research
• Written Sources and Outside Perspectives
• The Question of Authenticity

Materials, Tools and Techniques

• Wool
• Linen
• Other Fibres

• Tabby
• Twill

• Bronze Age
• Iron Age

• Common Iron Age Colours
• Choosing Colour
• Walnut Dyeing
• – Instructions Walnut Dye

• – Instructions Blackthorn Pins

• – Instructions Bone Needle

• Stopper Knot
• Overstitching
• Double-Turn Hem
• Blanket Stitch
• Running Stitch
• Flat-Felled Seams
• Saddle Stitch

• Cloak
• – Instructions Rectangular Cloak
• – Instructions Gerum Cloak

• – Instructions Tubular Wrap Garments

• – Instructions Bronze Age T-Tunic

• – Instructions Sleeveless Tunic

• – Instructions Sleeved Tunic

• – Instructions Skirt

• – Instructions Trousers

• – Instructions Shoes

• – Instructions Belt

• Spectacle Fibula
• – Instructions Spectacle Fibula

• – Instructions Bow Fibula

• – Instructions Birch Bark Hat

• Written Sources
• Glossary
• Resources
• Further Reading

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