Phase 02 — Stone, bone, wood and fibre toolkit / About year 1
02.16
Sewn hide clothing, shoes, bags and water skins
AWhat it needs
Needs 13 other products in all, 3 of them directly.
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- 02.16 Sewn hide clothing, shoes, bags and water skinsCloth Year 1 needs 13 products
- 02.06 Sinew thread and rawhide lashingMaking Year 1 needs 9 products
- 01.15 Fire-hardened spear ⚠Making Year 1 needs 6 products
- 01.03 Sharp stone flakeMaking Year 1 needs 1 product
- 01.02 HammerstoneMaking Year 1 raw materials only
- 01.08 First fire and stone hearthMaking Year 1 needs 5 products
- 01.06 Tinder and kindling storeMaking Year 1 raw materials only
- 01.07 Bow-drill fire setMaking Year 1 needs 3 products
- 01.03 Sharp stone flakeshown above ↑← shown at left
- 01.05 Twisted plant-fibre cordMaking Year 1 needs 2 products
- 02.03 Stone knives, scrapers and engraving pointsMaking Year 1 needs 3 products
- 02.01 Knapping kitMaking Year 1 needs 2 products
- 02.13 Bone awl and eyed needleCloth Year 1 needs 5 products
- 02.15 Scraped, brain-tanned and smoked hidesCloth Year 1 needs 8 products
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BWhy
The clothes they landed in are wearing out, and their shoes will not last the year. Leather sewn with sinew replaces both, and also gives the camp bags to carry in, and skins to carry water further than a bamboo tube can.
CYou need
DSteps
- Measure with cord, not by eye: round the chest, shoulder to knee, round the foot. Mark the hide with charcoal.
- Cut with the hide flat on the board, drawing the knife toward you in one stroke.
- Seams: punch a row of holes with the awl, a grass-stem's width from the edge and the same apart, through both layers at once. Sew with damp sinew, in and out, pulling each stitch tight. For a seam that must hold, go along the row twice so every gap is filled.
- Tunic: two hides, sewn together across the shoulders with a gap for the head, and down both sides with gaps for the arms. Add sleeves later as tubes.
- Leggings: one tube for each leg, tied to a belt.
- Shoes: stand on the hide and mark round the foot, three fingers wider all round. Cut it out. Fold it up over the foot, sew one seam up the heel and one along the top of the toes, and run a drawstring round the ankle. Sew a second layer on the sole.
- Bag: a rectangle folded in half, sewn up both sides, with a drawstring through slits at the top and a strap across the shoulder.
- Water skin: skin a goat-sized animal without cutting it open along the belly, peeling the skin off like a sock. Tie the leg openings and the tail end tightly shut with wet sinew. The neck is the spout, closed with a wooden plug. Tan it lightly and keep it wet.
- Rub fat into every seam and into the shoes to keep water out.
- Keep every offcut. Small pieces become patches, laces and pouches.
EIt worked if
- A pair of shoes survives a week of walking on rock.
- A filled water skin, hung overnight, has lost no more than a cupful.
FWhat goes wrong
- Seams pull apart. Holes too close to the edge, or stitches too far apart.
- Shoes wear through in days. A single sole. Double it, and patch from the inside.
- The water skin leaks at a tie. Wrap the tie again with wet sinew and let it dry; smear with pitch.
- Stiff clothes after rain. The hide was not smoked enough. Smoke it again.
GIn the story
Yara fits the youngest first and the leader last. Wren, who has gone barefoot for two weeks out of stubbornness, is given the first pair and pretends not to care. Adam gets the forty-eighth shoe on the thirty-first day and thanks her gravely. Yara tells him his feet are the ugliest of the lot.
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