"Jacobite" garb

**SFCRick** · 20th July 09, 04:40 PM

great set of photos

**celtophile** · 21st March 10, 03:22 PM

Thanks for the great history lesson.

**Erikm** · 31st March 10, 12:50 AM

Hi Woodsheal I see you have something wrapped around your neck, is it a jabot or just a neckerchief of some sort? I heard they did this for sword protection?

Thanks

**Woodsheal** · 1st April 10, 02:13 PM

Originally Posted by Erikm

Hi Woodsheal I see you have something wrapped around your neck, is it a jabot or just a neckerchief of some sort? I heard they did this for sword protection?

Thanks

It's a cravat: white or black, silk or cotton, about six inches wide and three feet long, finished on all edges and can have a bit of pleating on the ends. Such neck-cloths originally protected one from the chafing of armor, and did indeed help turn a sword stroke. Our modern neck ties are distant descendants....

**georgeetta** · 29th July 12, 01:09 PM

what do you call that fusil ? who'd'a made it ? ..I might try and ..take a shot ..sorry ..at what I get as the earliest brought to upstate NY in mid 1600's ..the whole general shape is about what I'd thought ..there's a detail of a Scottish dragoon drawing ..
thank you for reenactor efforts .
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**georgeetta** · 29th July 12, 01:14 PM

you might like to look over that Stuart Reid and Osprey books ..and the type ..they should have info maybe there ..Mr Ian MacCulloch may know as well ..Sons of the Mountains author . Myabe the 1960's Culldoen BBC doc'tary .
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I thought the group pulling down the "Cullwhinniac wall" were Argyll Militia, then dragoons came bounding through that .