Interesting! I’ve always assumed that Indigenous cultures around wear lighter, breathable clothing during the summertime if they lived in the warmer provinces.
That would require being able to grow a somewhat light textile plant such as linen or cotton or jute. If Canadian growing seasons are anything like I imagine they are, that idea is more or less a nonstarter because all those need a warmer zone climate enviroment. So you’re left with the dense heavy textile that comes from shearing farm animal wools for clothing making. In modern times you can theoretically grow textile indica hemp with cold resistance and short growing cycles, then process it into a softer and somewhat light clothing through making yarn but that may not br part of native indigenous Canadian culture.
I don’t know about elsewhere but the local Salish peoples would shear specially bred dogs with very light fur. Something like Samoyed fur, but more fine. They’re probably extinct now.
Interesting! I’ve always assumed that Indigenous cultures around wear lighter, breathable clothing during the summertime if they lived in the warmer provinces.
That would require being able to grow a somewhat light textile plant such as linen or cotton or jute. If Canadian growing seasons are anything like I imagine they are, that idea is more or less a nonstarter because all those need a warmer zone climate enviroment. So you’re left with the dense heavy textile that comes from shearing farm animal wools for clothing making. In modern times you can theoretically grow textile indica hemp with cold resistance and short growing cycles, then process it into a softer and somewhat light clothing through making yarn but that may not br part of native indigenous Canadian culture.
I don’t know about elsewhere but the local Salish peoples would shear specially bred dogs with very light fur. Something like Samoyed fur, but more fine. They’re probably extinct now.