Registration | Directions | Contacts | Measurements & Materials
Cost:
$33 Per person for Brigade members. $ 58 Non-Brigade members
Optional $170.00 coat kit.
Limit 15 people.
January 15th registration deadline
Registration
From PDF file
This is a two-day, hands on workshop to build a regimental coat. Styles include basic uniform coat (American or English), Lottery Coats, and early war coats made by American contractors. The goal of the workshop is to provide you with the techniques needed to construct, fit and finish a regimental coat, and to sufficiently construct your coat to permit you to finish it on your own.
The basic workshop includes a coat pattern and instructions with you providing your own materials.
A pre cut kit for a coat based on your measurements is available for $170. Kit to include: pre cut Kochan & Phillips cloth coat body and facing components, and serge lining pieces, linen sleeve linings and pockets, buttons (plain unless otherwise requested or provided by participant.), hooks and eyes, and buttonhole thread as required. {Various buttons are available ranging from generic flat to USA and some Regimental device]. For Regiments with special or proprietary needs, with materials provided from regimental sources will be give credit against the kit. Contact Henry directly to arrange details. You will need to bring 35/2 linen thread for hand construction and finishing.
The first day includes
introduction to coat construction, receiving your kit if ordered, written instructions
and working with Henry’s assistance and oversight on getting the coat
put together. Among the topics to be covered in the first session, measuring
for a regimental coat, pattern alteration, basic techniques of hand construction
of coat components, interfacings, and pockets. Goal for the first session is
to get a coat shell constructed and fitted, and get started on the sub-assemblies
needed to complete the coat. You will then have two weeks to work on the coat
at your own pace. Henry will be available by phone and e-mail to answer questions.
The second day will continue construction, and will include period techniques
for putting in linings, lacing, and buttonholes, and other finishing details.
The goal for the second session is to send you away with your coat and components
sufficiently finished to permit you to complete it on your own.
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Colors available for coats and facings: White, French blue, English blue, madder red, buff, Provincial green, French brown. Linings for coats to be AW Hainsworth white wool serge.
Directions:
New Windsor Cantonment
State Historic Site is located in Vails Gate, NY near the city of Newburgh.
From East or West: Take Interstate I-84 to Exit 7S, NYS Thruway.
Take Route 300 South (Union Avenue) past Thruway entrance and follow approximately
2 miles to traffic light at “T” intersection. Turn left, and at
next light bear right onto Temple Hill Road. Go approx. 1 mile – New Windsor
Cantonment State Historic Site will be on your left.
From North or South: Take New York State Thruway to Exit 17.
After toll keep left on exit ramp to Route 17K West. Turn right onto Rt. 17K
West and proceed to next traffic light. Turn left onto Route 300 South (Union
Avenue.) Then follow per above.
For further information
contact:
Henry Cooke 781-963-9645… hcooke4@verizon.net
Gene Frechette 603-616-6360 (cell) gene3@aol.com
Measurements
Needed for Military Coats
Historical Costume Services
Measurements PDF file
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How to take the Measures
Have someone else take
your measures, if possible.
Because of physiological changes of your body during movement, self-inflicted
measures often have errors, sometimes to the point of being impossible to take.
If possible, wear the clothes that you will be wearing under the coat or jacket,
or wear clothes of comparable thickness when you have your measurements taken.
In this way, the coat will fit smoothly without binding. When taking measures
the tape should be held easily and naturally, neither held slack nor drawn tight.
When taking measures of the circumference of the arm, the arm should be flexed
to get the maximum dimension and avoid constraint.
Measures Needed - Have
the following measurements taken, writing each one down as taken.
_____ Neck over shirt and stock or neck-cloth
_____ Distance from base of neck to shoulder joint
_____ Across back of shoulders, from shoulder joint to shoulder joint
_____ Shoulders across the shoulder blades between the sleeve seams
_____ Length of front, from top of shoulder to hip bone
_____ Length of front, from top of shoulder to crotch
_____ Length of front, from top of shoulder to top of knee
_____ Length of back, from bony area at base of neck to tailbone
_____ Circumference of chest, measured just under the armpits
_____ Circumference of waist at the top of the hip bone (just below navel)
_____ Length of arm from joint of shoulder to wrist bone with the arm hanging
down
_____ Length of arm from point of shoulder to elbow with arm bent
_____ Circumference of arm at shoulder, measured over the shoulder joint.
_____ Circumference of bicep of arm when flexed
_____ Circumference of forearm when flexed
_____ Measure from front of armpit, across breast to front of opposite armpit,
then divide in half to get the distance from the front of arm to the center
front of the coat.
_____ Scye depth – measured from the top of the shoulder to the bottom
of the armpit
Questions? Contact me at 781-963-9645, or hcooke4@verizon.net
Materials Needed:
· Cloth (if making a new pair of breeches)
· Shears
· Hand Sewing Needles
· Sewing Machine (if desired)
· Cotton machine thread (if using a sewing machine)
· Linen Thread ( for hand sewing -size 35/2 or 40/2 preferred)
· Silk Twist (buttonholes on silk or woolen breeches)
· Beeswax
· Tailor’s Chalk or Quilters Pencils
· Pins
· Pencils and erasers
· Yardstick
Winter
Clothing & Sewing Workshop: Regimental Coats PDF file