Ditty bag

This is one of the simplest types of hike kits for younger campers. It is a good beginning step in making one's own hiking gear that will be just right for a lunch, for treasures collected on the way,...

Living history services and resources for schools, museums and heritage sites. Viking and Roman in school sessions and craft demonstrations. teachers notes and worksheets.

1774 watercolor by 2nd Lt. Gabriel Bray of the 44-gun "Pallas", Captain the Hon. William Cornwallis commanding The hand tools of the rigger and sail maker remained remarkably similar from the mid -18th century to the dawn of the 20th. The industrial revolution would eventually produce innovations in cotton sailcloth manufacture, machine sewing and metal grommet construction. The folk art embellishments found on some of the items used by sailors on wooden ships unquestionably reached their…

American 18th century Ditty Bag linen with hemp lanyard I wanted to inhabit my 1760-1780 American merchant seaman's impression more fully than just wearing the period-appropriate clothing I had researched and documented for it. Lacking a berth on an appropriate vessel, and without the time, resources and youthful audacity to devote to months at sea, I decided to concentrate on certain elements of marlinespike seamanship that I could practice at home. I elected to begin with construction of…

Our kids activity this week is a step-by-step tutorial for sewing your own ditty bag

Sailors Bag - Green and Tan Waxed Canvas - Ditty Bag - This style of bag has been around for hundreds of years. Called a "Ditty Bag" or a "Sailors Bag", it is the kind of bag in which sailors carried their basic tools. Making a sea bag was also a part of becoming a proper sailor and a demonstration of skills that would be essential on a sailing ship of the 18th and 19th century in the UK and US.

A very short history of the Ditty Bag.

There is no exact way of making a ditty bag, but here are some ideas for you when you want to create your own decorative canvas bag.

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