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Article: Sutlers for history; Area artisans re-create Revolution's war clothing.(LIFE - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Byline: Ann Geracimos, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Neal Redmond is a high-tech man in a low-tech profession. A producer of Revolutionary War uniforms, the Maryland man uses a sewing machine to do some of his work. Two hundred years ago and more, garments had to be hand sewn since the first U.S. sewing machine wasn't patented until 1846.
Mr. Redmond, who doesn't claim to make museum reproductions, is a mean man with a needle, but finds the machine works best for reinforcing interior seams. He measures, cuts and assembles the thick wool coats for hobbyists called re-enactors who dramatize the customs and scenes of that epic late-18th-century conflict.
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