Clothing

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Settlements

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Objectives

History

Understand how people’s lives have shaped Britain.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and consequence.
Gain historical perspective by understanding the connections between local and national history, and between short- and long-term timescales.
Understand how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.

Art and Design

Know about craft workers in history.
Improve their art and design techniques.

Lesson Planning

Having found out about the way the Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes, try your hand at dyeing with natural dyes and weaving some fabric.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand that Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes from wool & plant materials, including the use of natural dyes.
To use natural dyes and weave some fabric using a simple loom.

Children will:

Describe how Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes.
Use natural dyes to colour materials.
Weave some fabric.

Planning

Provided Resources

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Unit Resources

You Will Need

Some white or pale brown wool or linen
Ingredients: onions, lichens, red cabbage, turmeric, blackcurrants, henna, tea bags, bracken, nettle, privet leaves, heather for use as dyes
Kettle, saucepan & means of heating it
Aprons & disposable plastic gloves
Salt to use as a fixative
Range of balls of fine wool
Metal washers to use for warp-weighted loom
Jelutong wood 10x10mm or similar
Large-eyed needles or plastic tea/coffee stirrers
Hacksaw
Materials, dyes
Looms sheets

Weblinks

Aelfflaed the dyer and weaver from earlybritishkingdoms.com