Henry Meldrum, "Creator of the seamless Shirt"

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Henry Meldrum

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Scotland, United Kingdom
Death: December 19, 1828 (60-68)
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Immediate Family:

Son of William Meldrum, "The Damask Loom" and Jean Fotheringham
Husband of Janet Meldrum and Janet Fotheringham
Father of Christian Gowie; William Meldrum and James Meldrum
Brother of Christian Mildrum; Margaret Meldrum; Jean Mildrum; Andrew Meldrum; William Meldrum, Jr. and 3 others

Occupation: Damask Weaver
Managed by: <private> Leitch
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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.

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Henry Meldrum, "Creator of the seamless Shirt"'s Timeline

1764
February 19, 1764
Scotland, United Kingdom
1789
November 8, 1789
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
1791
December 30, 1791
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
1812
1812
1828
December 19, 1828
Age 64
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
1828
Age 63