Navy Blue Broadcloth, WWB 850

100% Wool, 15 oz, 60″ Wide

This fabric is slightly lighter in weight & color than WWB 750. navy blue was a very common color for wool throughout the 18th & 19th centuries. For example in The Virginia Gazette of 1774, “Run away . . .  an Irish Servant Man . . .  wears . . .  a blue Broadcloth Coat”. For hand sewing, navy blue 35/2 linen thread would work very well. For sewing buttonholes trydeep indigo silk buttonhole twist .or quilter’s thread.