Okay, I'm cheap and I don't want to shell out a few bucks for a pattern. Does anyone have a capote pattern that is correct for what would have been worn by a mountain man in the Rockies 1825-1840? I plan on having a hood attached. Is there a seam over the shoulder or should the capote hang more like a poncho? All help appreciated.
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Just google search "capote coat".
Make sure you add the "coat" specifier or all you will get is info on a short, plump novelist with a lisp.
Almost every site has a pattern and some of them have several. I think the HBC site even has a pattern available.
The scout site listed above is one of the best. I love ther old scout info resources. Back then they expected a 12 year old to have more common sense than most adults now possess!
Make sure you add the "coat" specifier or all you will get is info on a short, plump novelist with a lisp.
Almost every site has a pattern and some of them have several. I think the HBC site even has a pattern available.
The scout site listed above is one of the best. I love ther old scout info resources. Back then they expected a 12 year old to have more common sense than most adults now possess!
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Crockett,
Send me an e-mail address, I've been involved in a lengthy discussion on another site regarding capotes that I can forward to you. I can't post that link here as per forum rules. If I could figure out how to post pics I'd send you one of what I've recently made. I'm pursuing a persona of a Hudson's Bay Co. field clerk in the 1830's here in the pacific northwest ala' Fort Vancouver. Lots of research available for a correct capote.
Dave/Vancouver WA
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Send me an e-mail address, I've been involved in a lengthy discussion on another site regarding capotes that I can forward to you. I can't post that link here as per forum rules. If I could figure out how to post pics I'd send you one of what I've recently made. I'm pursuing a persona of a Hudson's Bay Co. field clerk in the 1830's here in the pacific northwest ala' Fort Vancouver. Lots of research available for a correct capote.
Dave/Vancouver WA
sbur 'at'[url] hei.net[/url]
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wetpowder said:
I think you will get a better mix of info on capots{the more correct spelling} by googling "capots" and read the article by A. Gottfried in the Northwest Journal. He cites a number of sources and one of the best is Francis Back {"The Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly" Volume 27 No.3, Fall 1991}This publication is available from the Museum: E-mail, [email protected], web site,
[url] www.furtrade.org[/url] or 1-300-432-3843.
I hope this helps
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What Okwaho said...and for those that state that "square cut" capots are "late", that article by F. Back cites an early (1803 IIRC) traveler to Louisiana in which he describes a simply cut capot which sounds very much like a square cut capot......he also notes there were three different "styles" being worn at the time by various groups.....
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