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About Henry Meldrum, "Creator of the seamless Shirt"
The seamless shirt from Steinhude was originally a double.
The young weaver wove a first seamless example. After that he did a second seamless shirt for his sovereign, Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe. Who disposed it concerning his aristocratic connections onto the king of Portugal. This second shirt is nowadays lost. The theme of seamlessness is a historic theme and has been told already in the bible.
In times of Heinrich Bühmann in Steinhude and lateron in the 19st. century there are more seamless shirts been told of. One example from a Scottish weaver owns the Glasgow Museum.
This shirt has been produced as a present to the king König George IV. in 1821.
A photo is in the book of Ursina Arn-Grischott “Doppelgewebe in der Handweberei.
The museum tells as material silk. It could be also finest linen.
In Scotland there ar in sum 4 seamless shirts still existing, therefrom one is from Henry Inglis, another from Henry Meldrum, both in Dunfermline Museum.
From others former existing shirts has been reported from Henry Meldrum.
Henry Meldrum, "Creator of the seamless Shirt"'s Timeline
1764 |
February 19, 1764
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Scotland, United Kingdom
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1789 |
November 8, 1789
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Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
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1791 |
December 30, 1791
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Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
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1812 |
1812
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1828 |
December 19, 1828
Age 64
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Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
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1828
Age 63
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