[h-cost] Generalls Musick website at last!
Some of you may remember that I've been a member of a 17th century music group since 1998. After various false starts, the group's website has at last got off the ground and can be seen at http://www.generallsmusicandplayers.com/ Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Returning to h-cost
Hello all! I am Rebecca and am returning to H-cost after a leave of absense due to child-rearing :) I signed off a bit over a year ago for childbirth, and figured toddlerhood was a good time to go back to something that might help me keep my sanity (or lose even more of it - whichever feels better at the time :) I do mostly Elizabethan, and am on cast at the Bristol Renn Faire. Being out of the loop for awhile, I'm wondering if any children's patterns have come on the market in the past year? Aforementioned toddler will need clothing for this season. Also, if anyone has good information on leading strings...toddler will be ~20 months when season starts, and we work around an open fire, so I want to be able to have control of him at all times. Leading strings seemed to be a good start :) *** Rebecca Schmitt aka Agness Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence Bristol Renaissance Faire My arms are too short to box with God. --Johnny Cash *** ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: paillets...
At 12:00 PM -0700 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a place where i can buy some silver leaf palliettes. Shaped like leafs? They dont have to be excactly like these i have here: http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/cel.htm And it doesnt matter if they are metal or plastic, when it comes to rare things, you cant afford to be crittical. Bjarne I just was at a friends house and she showed me this *AWESOME* press. It did metal flashing and soda can metal the same as paper. There are leaf dies for it was well as flower dies and a bunch of terribly cute ones... It's called a Wizzard(sp) and is all the rage amongst the stamping/journaling/scrap booking set... And the results are just what you are looking for! Ta Carol--Darn, new shelves will be full soon G -- Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: paillets...
At 03:18 PM 3/5/2007, you wrote: just was at a friends house and she showed me this *AWESOME* press. It did metal flashing and soda can metal the same as paper. There are leaf dies for it was well as flower dies and a bunch of terribly cute ones... It's called a Wizzard(sp) and is all the rage amongst the stamping/journaling/scrap booking set... And the results are just what you are looking for! Ta Carol--Darn, new shelves will be full soon G Ok, Carol, who amongstus has this wonderful toy? I must see it! Dianne SCA known as Laurensa ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] re; Wizard
Well, this is where you can buy one: http://store.scrapbooking-warehouse.com/spellbinders.html?gclid=CLnfhN_T3ooCFSRFSgodADi0uw Joanne's is selling another brand that is similar (Cuttlebug) and is much cheaper - I ordered one Saturday and am eagerly awaiting it. (We don't have a superstore here so half the stuff in the ad was not available.) Janet ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Punches for cloth, was Re: [h-cost] re; Wizard
While we are talking about tools we can borrow from scrapbooking -- has anyone tried using any kind of paper punches on fabric? I do swatch books of the fabrics I sell, and would love to be able to cleanly punch two holes through multiple layers of cloth, so I can run a yarn or ribbon through to hold them together. I've been looking at the McGill drill-punch (view here: http://www.misterart.com/store/ view/001/group_id/7373/McGill-Adjustable-Paper-Drill.htm) but I have no experience with it. Do you know if it would work on stacks of cloth? Thanks! Lauren Lauren M. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 5, 2007, at 5:19 PM, JAMES OGILVIE wrote: Well, this is where you can buy one: http://store.scrapbooking-warehouse.com/spellbinders.html? gclid=CLnfhN_T3ooCFSRFSgodADi0uw Joanne's is selling another brand that is similar (Cuttlebug) and is much cheaper - I ordered one Saturday and am eagerly awaiting it. (We don't have a superstore here so half the stuff in the ad was not available.) Janet ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: paillets...
AND you can save yourself about thirty bucks on the system buying on eBay. Best part about the Wizard is that it takes all the OTHER manufacturer's die cuts. If you don't find exactly what you want in the Wizard line, you can buy someone else's leaf, flower, butterfly, or whatever, and the tools are included with the Wizard to make them work. Doing more scrapping than sewing these days-- LuAnn - Original Message - From: cahuffmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: [h-cost] Re: paillets... At 12:00 PM -0700 3/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know of a place where i can buy some silver leaf palliettes. Shaped like leafs? They dont have to be excactly like these i have here: http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/cel.htm And it doesnt matter if they are metal or plastic, when it comes to rare things, you cant afford to be crittical. Bjarne I just was at a friends house and she showed me this *AWESOME* press. It did metal flashing and soda can metal the same as paper. There are leaf dies for it was well as flower dies and a bunch of terribly cute ones... It's called a Wizzard(sp) and is all the rage amongst the stamping/journaling/scrap booking set... And the results are just what you are looking for! Ta Carol--Darn, new shelves will be full soon G -- Creative Clutter is Better Than Idle Neatness! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.commailto:h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costumehttp://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: robin hood
Is it on DVD? I don't have cable. I'll watch if the story is good, unless the costumes are awful. Did anyone catch the new Dracula, which was just on here (probably last year's BBC season). I saw about five minutes and couldn't take it after Lucy's new husband left the wedding to perform some kind of blood-heavy black mass or something. Everyone usually massacres Dracula in the same Freudian way, but this looked like an equally stupid way to massacre it. I sure wish someone would just do the real story. Anyway, I didn't get a chance to notice the costumes. Gail Finke ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood
Everyone usually massacres Dracula in the same Freudian way Well, Bram Stoker _did_ have syphilis; so all those connections between sex, transmission of a condition by tainted blood, and death are probably not just modern interpretations. I haven't seen the new Dracula. I just watched my DVD of the new Jane Eyre. I would classify it as modernized, in terms of much of the language and some of the actions, but emotionally true. Heavily romantic. Some characters have been changed; for example a peripheral young man, in the novel, has been changed into an amateur scientist. As for costumes, I try not to watch films for them too much, it's just entertainment. But: In the novel Jane Eyre perennially wore black wool, black silk, or for the very best dove-gray silk in winter; and in the summer, she had at least one dress in, if I recall, lilac gingham. In the film she almost always wears a gray cotton dress that doesn't fit well in the bodice. But, it's a good film. Worth making; though I still wish BBC would discover more 19th-century authors instead of perennially refilming Jane Austen, Dickens, and a handful of others. I'd love to see someone film Wharton's _The Custom of the Country_. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] BBC Robin Hood
I'm not going to say what I think of the general costuming, but keep an eye out in one of the later episodes for Marion (I think - dark haired girl), having a distinctly 60s day!! ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: robin hood
Gail Scott Finke wrote: Is it on DVD? I don't have cable. I'll watch if the story is good, unless the costumes are awful. You can get more info on the website: http://www.bbcamerica.com/ I can't comment on the story yet. I though the first episode was passable in a Robin Hood meets hip 21st century youth sort of way. The costumes are the usual mix of attempts at authenticity and modern fantasy. I'm not sure about the orange (stretch knit?) dress on the website, but Marian was in a lovely cream colored gothic fitted gown in the first episode. And they had Guy of Gisbourne in a black leather trenchcoat... I'll watch a couple more episodes to see how it goes. :) Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Venitian Carnivale costumes
Folks, I've been contacted by a man wanting to sell some historically-inspired carnivale costumes. They are ornately decorated royal blue satin covered with black lace and gold braid trim. They were purchased in Venice, Italy from a costume designer, and have never been worn. I have no financial interest in this, just trying to help find a new home for these costumes. If you want to see pictures or talk to the owner, email me and I will forward details to you. Dawn ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: Punches for cloth, was Re: [h-cost] re; Wizard
On Monday 05 March 2007 5:35 pm, Lauren Walker wrote: While we are talking about tools we can borrow from scrapbooking -- has anyone tried using any kind of paper punches on fabric? I do swatch books of the fabrics I sell, and would love to be able to cleanly punch two holes through multiple layers of cloth, so I can run a yarn or ribbon through to hold them together. I've been looking at the McGill drill-punch (view here: http://www.misterart.com/store/ view/001/group_id/7373/McGill-Adjustable-Paper-Drill.htm) but I have no experience with it. Do you know if it would work on stacks of cloth? Thanks! I'm not familiar with the McGill. All I know that the kind of hand paper punch that looks like the type train conductors use to punch tickets is *not* sharp/strong enough to punch clean holes through fabric. -- Cathy Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. -- Woody Allen ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: HBO Rome series - anyone else watching?
On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Message: 8 Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:39:03 -0700 From: Saragrace Knauf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] HBO Rome series - anyone else watching? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed I am thoroughly enjoying this series. I don't know much aobut costuming of the time, but I don't even care!!! Anyone else liking it? Enjoying it thoroughly, less for historical accuracy (I don't know much about Ancient Rome, but a friend who is a Roman reenactor assures me they're taking gross liberties) but for the quality acting and drama. Excellent stuff! Sg Allison ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: HBO Rome series - anyone else watching?
Greetings-- A. Thurman wrote: On 3/5/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enjoying it thoroughly, less for historical accuracy (I don't know much about Ancient Rome, but a friend who is a Roman reenactor assures me they're taking gross liberties) but for the quality acting and drama. Excellent stuff! There are indeed some liberties taken, but far, far fewer than in just about any other show about Rome I've seen (with the possible exception of I Claudius). The outlines of historical events are correct, but they fill in a lot of storylines (the main two characters are largely fictional). There are also some strikingly good bits--graffiti, some of the food described (could come straight from Apicius), the letters (which are in an actual hand the Romans used, although to quibble they're not using cursive enough, probably because it would look like chicken scratch to viewers) and last night's episode had two weddings that had the correct ceremonial text and the bride in the correct colour. I've also liked how they treat religion--since this is pre-Christian, they've had their work cut out for them to bring some of the Roman practices to life, and have generally done pretty well. They've touched a lot on the ancestor worship part of the upper classes, for instance. My only serious quibble about the history so far is with Cicero. They cast him too young, for one thing. They also chose to portray him fairly negatively, as a political opportunist lacking in intestinal fortitude. I think you could make that argument about him, but he also clearly struggled with it himself. Plus, for a man reknowned as the most famous orator of his time, he wasn't portrayed as a good speaker at all. On the other hand--I love the portrayals of Caesar and Antony, and I think they've gotten Octavian down now that they've switched to an older actor with more gravitas. On the costuming front --the women's clothing has high and low points, although I've not seen anything so glaringly bad as what we saw in Gladiator. I can recognize garments or at least what they're based on. The men's clothing is not bad, if suffering from a tendency towards that rough, unfinished look for the senatorial tunics and togas, for instance. The battle scenes have not been much to talk about, probably because they spent most of their money on actors and scenery rather than CGI. The sets are wonderful--a riot of colour. Susan (BA in classics and ancient history) ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Returning to h-cost
Welcome back! I've seen stuff on leading strings in one of my (very few) books on 18th century costuming for reenactors, but nothing for earlier time periods, outside of those embroidered bands in the book on the embroidery of Mary Stuart. There was a recent thread concerning children's clothing and patterns--I'm pretty *sure* it was on this list. Burda as the manufacturer, maybe? It's not something I saved, or paid too much attention to, so hopefully someone can give you more details --Sue in Montana - Original Message - From: Rebecca Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Historical Costume' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:08 AM Subject: [h-cost] Returning to h-cost Hello all! I am Rebecca and am returning to H-cost after a leave of absense due to child-rearing :) I signed off a bit over a year ago for childbirth, and figured toddlerhood was a good time to go back to something that might help me keep my sanity (or lose even more of it - whichever feels better at the time :) I do mostly Elizabethan, and am on cast at the Bristol Renn Faire. Being out of the loop for awhile, I'm wondering if any children's patterns have come on the market in the past year? Aforementioned toddler will need clothing for this season. Also, if anyone has good information on leading strings...toddler will be ~20 months when season starts, and we work around an open fire, so I want to be able to have control of him at all times. Leading strings seemed to be a good start :) *** Rebecca Schmitt aka Agness Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence Bristol Renaissance Faire ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: Punches for cloth, was Re: [h-cost] re; Wizard
Just be sure your paillette-maker uses sturdy enough plates if you're going to use it on metal. I know folks who have tried to use the scrapbooking type of plastic-plate sort of thing, designed for paper, on lightweight metal, and the plastic gets mashed flat in about three passes no fun. I've mentioned this page before (probably the last time Bjarne brought this up, in fact...) http://claning.home.igc.org/bezants/bezants.htm I've used metal leather-punching tools with pretty good results. OChris Laning [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Davis, California + http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Turkish knots aka frogs?
Hi all, I will be working on a new Elizabethan loose gown (16th c.), and I wanted to close them with Turkish knots, aka frogs, like seen in PoF, and in QEWU. I have made modern ones in a class recently, but I want to find period ones as my basis to make for my gown. But I am having problems finding info on them, or how to make period Turkish knots/frogs, and my googling has only gotten a couple of leads. QEWU mentions that there were Turkish knots on garments from Turkey in the VA, but I am not finding anything there, and I am not sure what proper keyword to search for. And one book I've found notice during my search, I don't know if I can ILL, since my local library sucks greatly at getting the good books, and those in my state are noted as being reference only. Anyone know much about the book Costumes, Embroideries and other Textiles by the Topkapi Saray Museum translated by J. M. Rogers? What is in this book? Is it worth paying $100+ for, just for knots? I am not one normally for Middle-eastern garments. Has anyone else here made these, or know anyone who has? Anyone here have any suggestions on how to find out more on this? Any hints, links, mailing lists, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Kimiko Small - Don't get soaked. Take a quick peak at the forecast with theYahoo! Search weather shortcut. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Turkish knots aka frogs? An interesting page for you....
Here's an interesting websit on Chinese knot tying, this is for a clothing frog. http://co.middlesex.nj.us/culturalheritage/chineseknotting/button.html very pretty and decorative. Also try searching for knot tying in your search feature or the macrame pages for something more in line with the knot you want. Best, Melody (snip) Kimiko Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I will be working on a new Elizabethan loose gown (16th c.), and I wanted to close them with Turkish knots. But I am having problems finding info on them, or how to make period Turkish knots/frogs, and my googling has only gotten a couple of leads. Any hints, links, mailing lists, or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Kimiko Small - Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
