Originally Posted by
notmorecraft
Hi Iceblossom, do you have a pattern for Kuspuks, or tell me where to get one?
When I was a girl living in Alaska in the 70s, I would typically see the daily use Kuspuks as made from bright floral calico prints and usually using boldly contrasting rickrack as trim. More formal ones were made from fancier fabrics (like velvet) with braided trims.
There are videos on how to make Kuspuks the old way, that is basically just holding up fabric for size and tearing it smaller. Youtube has everything nowadays!
I have the Lois Pattern
https://alaskanpatterns.com/product-...terns-by-lois/
The Friday Pattern is very popular as well (Legislature started an informal tradition of wearing Kuspuks on Fridays)
https://www.northernthreads.net/shop...-x15888595.htm
Here's some general information from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuspuk