Making Market Bags: From Medieval to Modern [CC]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ม.ค. 2022
- IN WHICH our intrepid recreatrix starts a new year, vows to be gentle with herself, and, oh yeah, makes a Market Wallet. Join me as I make my first project of 2022, a linen market bag suitable for use from the 14th century up to the 19th. Also be sure to check out my Ko-Fi membership tiers for additional content, since I just launched those January first.
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MY MIND IS BLOWN, that thing is such a good idea!!
I love that in 14 century(allegedly) humanity went "this is a perfect sack" and never changed it until the industrialisation
The Platonic Ideal of “BAG.”
What a wonderfully simple, yet effective carry-all. It makes so much sense. I think that everyone needs to be more gentle with themselves this year. The last two have definitely been strain-ful. I am looking forward to seeing where your journey takes you this year. Take care.
Thank you Nancy! 💜 I didn’t realize exactly how long they were in use at all.
Best sign my in my Grandma's house. "I will not should on myself today." My aunt made it for her while she was still working.
“Should” is a dirty word in our house.
Ditto…
How fun! I made one of these out of cotton drop cloth canvas from the hardware store and I need to make more. Suddenly my modern cloth grocery bags look, well, too modern.
Bags of all kinds have such a long history!
This was great! Just because of my modern association with the word "wallet" that hearing "market wallet" you think the bag would be a lot smaller than it is, but man can that hold a lot! And super practical at events.
Love it!
Super practical! I can’t wait to use it for eventing and not just partner-visiting.
I actually have one of those, but terribly sewn with modern (fast fashion) methods (which meant that it broke because noone had apparently thought that the seams needed to last the strain), that I got gifted. This pattern makes so much more sense. Very happy to see that it actually is a historical thing and how it should be made.
Very practical, but a bit bulky if you carry it around for long, I found it.
Yeah I wouldn’t want to carry it for super long periods, but I also appreciate that it could be slung over a donkey’s or pony’s back for longer distances.
If the fabric itself is sturdy, you could always re-sew it with stronger thread and more appropriate stitches.
It has already been mended. (But I didn't mention it originally as I felt it wasn't the important thing)
Why can't we all go back to this very useful and versatile bag/wallet! It is so great, thank you for showing us this.
We totally should!
Such a clever bag! Our ancestors were very clever
Right? If it ain’t broke don’t fix it!
This made me miss my grandmother so much! She used to tie the handles of shopping bags together so she could carry them over her shoulder like a market wallet. I wonder now if she had something similar back in the "old country."
That’s clever! It’s just such an efficient way of carrying weight in bags.
Fascinating-I never even thought of "luggage" before the Trunks coming over on the Mayflower...This market bag sort of reminded me of the miser's purse which to my surprise (based on a quick google search is really a 19th century thing)...Which then lead me to Morgan Donners post from years ago on "lute" purses and a 14th century Norwegian purse that looks a lot like Japanese omiyage purses.
What a wonderful first post of 2022 to get me thinking
thanks!
Right?! I love a rabbit hole!
And now you've got me thinking. 🤣
Guess its down the rabbit hole for me tomorrow 🤣🤣🤣
I absolutely love the market wallet. I watched it again so I can obtain the materials necessary for the project.
I really love mine; it’s so useful!
This looks like it may be the perfect first hand sewing project, thank goodness 😅 also, hello from Gimli, our big brown tabby who has never taken an interest in our TV before, but really wants to be friends with Bran.
Aw hi Gimli! I can confirm that this is a perfect beginner hand sewing project.
Oh my Gosh! You have a set of 1950 luggage. Double win!!
It is one of my prized possessions; I found it for SIX DOLLARS at an estate sale in New York State.
excellent idea to pull a thread to make sure you cut square. washed linen is bumpy even after ironing
Like a giant 'miser's purse'. I also washes a video on Japanese Boro and when the clothes rematching finally were no longer enough for a garment they made them into market bags just like this! Great designs last.
Yes exactly like a miser’s purse!
English tea with almond milk on this snowy night. A great project to start the year. I like how you use a pressing ham as a 'third hand'. Much more portable than the traditional metal one that clamps to a table. It is a project that I will most likely do as well. The reason being that I've got a decent amount of garb, and need to work on accessories.
That sounds delightful!
Tabletop Tea's " Mountain" I love the warmth of the Cinnamon.
Highly approve! Tornado loves Mrs Hudson too, which is earl grey and cinnamon
This was so cool and I'm 100% for all of us being gentle with ourselves and each other as we start this next year.
January is so rough, we should all be gentle with ourselves.
@@OpusElenae absolutely! ❤️
David's tea Brown Sugar Burbon black tea, and sewing the tailors ham kit from Shannon Makes' kit (finally), and working on the World War 2 Sewing challenge....need the tailors ham to do the seam pressing. I am also waiting for wool to arrive to spin, to start working on a weaving to make an apron dress, that is 100% hand spun and hand woven
I love that tailors ham so much
I love it!! I gotta make one!!
This looks like an incredibly practical item, with modern as well as reenactment uses. I love seeing glimpses of your past makes during the handsewing bits.
I've just got back from a few days away. In between beach walks and keeping everybody fed, I've finally felled all the long seams on the linen shift I've had lurking in my UFO pile for more than a year.
A mini-vacay sounds amazing! And thank you!
I really enjoyed the music you picked for this video.
Thank you! I put a lot of thought into my
Music choices, and it’s always wonderful to have them appreciated.
Tonight's tea is Melissa, brand: "the backyard of my grandparent's old house" biological, no chemicals added 😉.
As for your bag, I had seen it in a lot of pictures from the peninsular war, as my regency working class outfit is far from ready I had completelly forgotten about putting it back on my wish (to do) list.
It is so fexible, and for sure something that really works as is appears in over 500 years of paintings. I may take a look of it again before the events start.
Or maybe, maybe I'll take e piece of fabric to an event and come back with a laudry bag 🤔. Lets see what time and fabrics have planed for me in 2022
It would be a perfect camp-sewing project!
@@OpusElenae yes it would, a bag for clothes and another a bit smaller to carry my next camp project - a tapestry, one side for the tapestry itself ans the other for the yarn, just need to study a pocket or something to transport needles and pliers.
I took a couple week break to go to Texas and see my sons and their family's and have been a procrastinating blob since. I finally got some bread made tonight and hopefully I can start on an apron for a daughter-in-law tomorrow. I just can't seem to find the motivation. I enjoyed watching you sew and of course "Bran content". Hopefully tomorrow will be another day?
Tomorrow is always another day. Be gentle with yourself too!
I love it! Your vintage luggage looks like it's in much better condition than my well-used blue set which I think is identical up to the interior zips pockets; I still love mine for basic decor/storage in the home.
It’s mostly in good condition. Some of the interior fabric is getting stiff, and the stitching as come out of the corner binding on one suitcase, so I have to get it repaired. But I do love them.
Oooo I need to go make a few to go with my hood (which I will be working on this month)
It’s so practical! I actually just ended up using it to being clothes to my partner’s this weekend and it’s also nice because i can put clean clothes in one side and the dirty go in the other.
I love this!!! Great job!!!
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it.
I've got one of these bags on my to do list. A basket isn't always practical
I think you’ll enjoy it! I’m considering making a few of them by machine for largesse.
Thank you, you have helped to figure out how to carry a water bottle to the ren faire. I think I will make a water bottle-sized version of this and fit it over my belt. I can put the water bottle in one half and a snack in the other side. I love this idea!
What a great idea!
More water, some time to watch, so another boost halfway through
Appreciate Bran content
Also, all the lovely seemingly real-time hand stitching
Bran appreciates you too!
@@OpusElenae 😂🐱🙂👍😁
tonight's cuppa is gatorade because I'm still recovering from COVID. I love this idea as I have begun work on a forester/pilgrim persona and have been wanting to find different way to carry my things. I hope your new year is good for you!
I hope you’re feeling better! We can all be pilgrims together!
Way to ease us into the new year with a chill handsewing. You mentioned in your end of year video about music and your pick was perfect.
I feel like we could all use a rest and reset after the holidays.
Yaaas! I need a better bag for fairing and this looks perfect candidate for my emergency/carry around sewing project list.
It would be perfect for faire! You could do clean clothes in one end and dirty in the other!
Happy New Year!
To you as well!
Raises a mug of chicory + coffee, lightly sweetened.... "To the Professor!"
The year ahead will be filled with flowers.... how do I know? I will plant flower seeds. A toast to the new year and its potential!
That’s a great philosophy!
Tonight’s tea is lemon and ginger, snuggled in bed, accompanied by The Orange Cat who can’t decide if he wants to sneak under the covers where it’s warm, or to walk all over me with his very pointy feet. Yay being gentle with ourselves and also yay practical accessories!
That sounds delicious! Bran hates being under covers, so we usually alternate between standing on my chest SCREAMING and snuggling up at knee-height facing away from me.
Made a bag like this a year or 2 ago, was a tiny bit larger than myself, when I go to events I have one side filled with clothes and the other filled with sheepskins and blankets. When I get to the event site I have my clothes hung up on my tent and I fill the sack with dry leaves/grass to use as a makeshift mattress
That’s brilliant!
That's an amazing bag!!! I made one last year and it's nowhere near the capacity of yours!
I am drinking coffee 😉
Thank you! I think a couple size ones would be a great set.
Brilliant idea! Nice to get off of just clothing and get a better idea of how folks actually managed everyday activities without our new-found inventions.
I like to strike a balance between clothes and material culture!
Olyeg did these for Kingdom A&S one year, I keep a couple of the prototypes in my backpack basket for Emergency Use. Sometimes you need more bag than a backpack basket can give.
They fold and roll up so nicely! I have taken to keeping it in the bottom of my basket too.
My favorite Tea ,loose leaf Yorkshire Gold..not in a tea bag,nice old earthen ware tea pot with hand sewn Pot cosy.
My project list this year is less quick sew items for my self or anyone else ,but thought out handsewn garments for myself.
I want to sew more modern clothes for myself this year too.
Oh, I definitely need one of these!!
Everyone does, they’re so convenient!
This seems super useful I'm making a bunch of different reusable bags this year so I'm going to add this to the list. I'd imagine since it's on the shoulder it'll probably be easier to carry compared to the same weight in a tote bag
Yup! And if you make two, you can sling them on a stick on your shoulder with one in front and one behind.
My tea today is Sainsbury's Supermarlet own brand Sencha Rose (loose). It's a lovely floral green tea with flower petals and is even better sweetened with honey (raw). It doesn't need the sweetening if you don't forget to steep for the recommended time (which I don't - I like the mild bitterness/astringency that results from it).
Rose is a great sweetening/mellowing agent for a grassy green!
Drinking some delicious coffee here. Anyway this looks like a really fun project! Personally my "get back into sewing in 2022" is scrambling to finish a skirt before I need it on tuesday, but at least it kicked me into holding a needle for the first time in months.
Happy New Year!
Sometimes I think I only finish as much as I do by having a video out every other week!
Good project to start 2022!
I'm glad you had an enjoyable holiday 😀
I did, thank you! I hope you did too!
Wow, that was a very long time for one bag style to be in use! And when you were working on the long middle seam and held it out, that seam just seemed to VANISH. It was amazing!
Welcome to 2022 and may it be brighter than the past couple of years!
I was so surprised at it too!
This was awesome! I'm very intrigued by this project!
Thank you! I’m super pleased with it myself!
Always an inspiring and aesthetic video. Great project and have a wonderful, productive year!
Thank you!
Hi,this would be great for people like me who can only carry on one arm and the weigh in on the shoulder, much less painful.💖
Heck yeah! It was surprisingly stable and comfortable to carry.
Hi from An Tir!
This is such a great idea and I'm definitely going to make myself a few of these. This would be a great use for some synthetic material I have lying around that looks really nice but I don't want to make garb out of.
Oh that’s a great idea! I think I’m going to make some for largesse too.
Today’s tea has been HEB’s Cucumber Mint Green tea.
This bag is awesome! It’s a gigantic version of a Victorian Beggar’s coin purse.
Basically! It’s a great design.
Still drinking water
Not quite settled enough to watch, o, boosting algorithm
It’ll be here later when you’re ready. Thank you for the boost! 💜🥐
@@OpusElenae yay
And, you're welcome!
Lovely. I recently hand-sewed one too for carrying my medieval market stuff, I've only yet used it very short distance though. And I actually didn't research it (I'm not dressed authentically anyway), so I'm surprised it only dates back to the fourteenhundreds and not earlier. Like how did they carry their stuff before? Baskets?
Sending hugs and Blessings! Love the bag!
💜🥐💜
Have wanted to make one of these for a while...this may be my inspiration to finally make it!
Did you make the weighted cushion, or purchase it? This would be handy for fine net-making as well!
It was a gift from a friend, years ago. It’s stuffed very firmly, and I bet weighted blanket beads would work well for weight.
@@OpusElenae thank you!
I really liked this. I might put together something like this. I have a simple leather bag that this would be a lovely compliment for.
Thank you for this one.
Love your content. ❤️
Thank you! I’m loving how many people are planning to make one too!
@@OpusElenae you made it look so easy and fun! Now we are coming up with excuses that we need a medieval market wallet. 😊
Awesome bag. What is the width of your material. I am going to use some sheets to make mine. Also a viking hood and a under dress/kirtle.
Thank you! This is one yard of 59” wide fabric.
Really cool project! But in order to save space when packing, you need to roll your clothes.
Good note!
Did you make your weighted cushion? If so, what is it filled with?
I didn’t; it was a gift from years ago. I bet the beads for weighted blankets would work pretty well though!
Licorice spice
What an intriguing flavor combination!
Does switching between diet coke and water count? Never did like tea or coffee but I do like caffeine :)
Sure does! Hydration is important!
What is SCA camping? I would love to know!
The SCA is the Society for Creative Anachronism; it’s an educational organization based primarily in North America that focuses on pre-1600 world history. So we all dress up and go to events and some people fight and some people make thing (I make things lol) and some people do performances, etc. Longer events will have camping, like other reenactment events, so I made these to be able to carry things in a way that’s closer to 14th century accuracy than a sterilite tub.
Did you make your weighted cushion?
I did not; it was a gift from a friend many years ago.
You could even throw a sleeping baby in one end? 🤣
Lol probably, as long as they weren’t TOO squishy!
hi! I love your content, but because I'm autistic sometimes the background music is a little much, especially while you're talking. it's nice music! it's just a lot, especially while you're speaking (and occasionally when the same few short notes repeat 4-5 times). obviously you can't meet everyone's accessibility needs, I just wanted to put this out there in case you've been thinking about changing the amount of music in your videos
usually less repetitive/more complex music, shorter segments of music, or music I haven't heard before is less distracting/overwhelming for me, and I think some of those things are preferred by neurotypical listeners as well, so there might be a workaround like that? but the biggest thing for me tbh is music while someone is talking, & I know some people prefer that. so again, if you like your current set up please don't feel pressured to change it
regardless, thank you for your hard work! I really appreciate the closed captions
Den blev meget fin. Hvad er målene ?
To use it to carry clothing for weekend events. Or perhaps to pack flat and use as a dirty-clothes bag at an event.
What are the measurements?
Hmmmm I have plenty of mid weight calico I can use and can easily get the heavy weight if necessary. Going to make one or 2 of these once I have managed to change around my work room from tiny room to spare room (how on earth have I managed to collect so much STUFF!!!)
Where did you get/how did you make your weighted sewing helper? It would be sew handy for all the times I need a 3rd hand when sewing and put less strain on my hands in general.
Great Vid. Thank you.
Drinking peppermint tea just before bedtime. Well sleep time I'm already in bed relaxing with historical make vids and a note book filling with ideas :)
Mid weight calico would be great for this; even stuffed full of clothes it wasn’t too heavy. I just had a yard of heavy linen. My weighted pillow was a gift!
@@OpusElenae thank you. Will dig it out when I can find it among the storage crates and boxes of stuff :)
What a lovely gift. So pretty. I'm going to have to go searching :)
Ciao Elena ..mi potresti dare le misure in cm del tuo progetto ?
Sure; it will be after the weekend but I can make that happen
I’m lying in bed, possibly sick with beer bug, well definitely unwell but possibly infected with the panini. I’m drinking a terrible but delicious coconut berry Red Bull, as I don’t have the energy to make tea. In bed knitting some not socks, that are named Obi Yoga in the book. It’s a pattern that I have done many times because I like ankle and plantar warmers that don’t impact my barefoot living in central Florida. I’m hoping you and all of the commentators are well. I’m waiting on my at home tests, until I negative and feeling human again I will stay home not passing any germs 🦠 along.
Ooh no, I hope you feel better soon, whatever sick you have!
@@OpusElenae fully vaccinated and boosted, even got my flu vaccine in December so yeah. I’m going to be okay, just mildly inconvenienced. Take care in Texas.
I'm drinking a rather flavorful chai called "cabin fever" and trying to decide which project to start on while I wait for my wool to finish drying.
I've seen these bags before and they certainly look useful. What a lovely way to welcome the new year!
I feel like that tea is particularly apt right now!