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Broadcloth and Kersey, 100% wool, Mixed Grey, 26 oz., 56" wide, $57/yd. WWK 100
This is museum quality reproduction wool used to make English civil war army coats, early 18th century Royal navy sailor's jackets and breeches (1710 to 1730 British slop contracts call for kersey), some Continental regimentals such as the 3rd New York Reg't of 1775 (broadcloth), late War of 1812 US Rifle Regiment Coatees and War of 1812 British Army enlisted trousers (broadcloth). The use of this cloth continued in both armys well into the 1830s. The 1812 U.S. Army roundabout jacket by Past Patterns should be made of kersey. Mixed gray broadcloth was used for hundreds of years by farmers, sailors and other laboring people up to and including the 19th century. For example advertised in The Virginia Gazette of 1771 but from Maryland "RAN away . . . an English indented servant man . . . he came from London . . . and is a button maker by trade . . . He had on and took with him a suit of mixed grey broad cloth, trimmed with basket buttons". Unbleached linen thread 35/2 for hand sewing matches this fabric best and for sewing button holes you might try gray silk button hole twist.
Both the kersey and broadcloth look and feel identical. Kersey is a twill weave whereas broadcloth is a plain weave. As the nap wears off the outside of the fabric the weave will be revealed.
Thanks to the hard work of James Kochan and Sean Phillips this broadcloth is museum quality woven in England today to specific standards and has the same appearance, drape, weave, milling, finish and hard hand as broadcloth made in the late 18th century. This broadcloth holds a raw edge better than any other broadcloth available.
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