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Offline GlisGlis

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straw rain coat
« on: November 04, 2016, 06:37:34 am »
one of my projects is to make a straw rain coat or grass cape.
I'm in the stage of collecting references.
It seems that almost every part of the world developed his own version (also for clothes and shoes) and obviously it should be a functional equipment if so many adopted it.
Do you have first hand experience making it? pictures, tips ideas? it should be pretty good also as camo. Ghillie suit sort of.

I attach a pic of a very refined and still produced version.
googling you can find tons of others starting from Otzi one.

Offline Pat B

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2016, 09:38:09 am »
James Parker reproduced Otzi's grass rain cape and most of his other gear too.
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Offline Zuma

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2016, 03:44:49 pm »
One of those would be great for snow
goose hunting when there is no snow. ???
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Offline jaxenro

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2016, 07:42:46 pm »
Seen them in a zillion samurai movies seems like they were popular in Edo period Japan

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Offline GlisGlis

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2016, 04:07:10 am »
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Seen them in a zillion samurai movies seems like they were popular in Edo period Japan

yes and also almost every other part of the planet has his own version

Offline Zuma

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2016, 09:42:00 am »
Team up those jackets up with a nice Hawaiian skirt >:D.
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PS they sure look like a lot of work.
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Offline GlisGlis

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2016, 01:04:25 pm »
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PS they sure look like a lot of work.

not necessarily :D

Offline jaxenro

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #7 on: November 08, 2016, 06:17:48 pm »
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Seen them in a zillion samurai movies seems like they were popular in Edo period Japan

yes and also almost every other part of the planet has his own version

Yes they do.

sorry, I was trying to be helpful in that Mino is the name for the Japanese version and there seems to have quite a bit of info online on how to construct anything samurai related not to imply that there aren't 100 other regional variations

Offline GlisGlis

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2016, 07:15:16 am »
No problem at all Jaxenro
I see i stated the same thing two times but it was not intended to be offensive

Offline jaxenro

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Re: straw rain coat
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2016, 07:19:42 am »
No worries. It's an interesting idea and I got curious and poked around a little. I have seen them being made from everything from bundles of straw to straw door mats. I know those are thick and heavy