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The Thermal and Transpirative Properties of Arctic Clothing Construction: A Women’s Adaptive Technology (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana Ewing.

The technical ability of women to engineer clothes as adaptation to the harsh arctic environment in Indigenous North America has not been extensively investigated. My research focuses on the analysis of the thermal and transpiration properties of Arctic clothing. The materials chosen for clothing have certain inherent properties that include species of animal selected, different tanning processes, patterning of the garments, seam construction, and tailoring. All these properties play into the...