RE: [h-cost] Good News

2005-07-27 Thread otsisto
May I recommend Elizabethan with pearl work? or this in Italian http://www.fabric.com/cotton-velvet-fabric-coral-stria.aspx -Original Message- I have to brag! It seem that I won this weeks $100 Shopping Spree at Fabric.Com. Still in shock and now I have to figure out what to spend it

Re: [h-cost] Suggestions for London

2005-07-27 Thread Penny Ladnier
I received my United Airlines newsletter today. If anyone would like for me to forward it to you, please contact me privately. Carol, you are correct, it is British Midlands. The stewarts were so nice to me and helped carry my bags. They also feed you all the way to England and back.

Re: [h-cost] Good News

2005-07-27 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Steven, Congratulations with the lottery, gosh what a treat! I couldnt resist in notice your line with Violet Bengaline for a suit. What is Bengaline, havent got a clue? Bjarne - Original Message - From: Stephen Bergdahl [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED];

[h-cost] ebay

2005-07-27 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi, Thanks for all your responses, well i think that many of you are right, i should be cautious. I have desided to ask him if he will make a package of the bundles i want and make it so that i can bit on this package at ebay. If he dont want, well then i wont buy. Bjarne Leif og Bjarne

Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)

2005-07-27 Thread Elizabeth Walpole
snip I wish you luck with your new venture. However, the original website took a picture from my personal website without my permission - a fantasy costume and so specified - and made a critique as if it was an historical one. I do hope that this will not happen on your new version. Suzi

Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)

2005-07-27 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
snip I wish you luck with your new venture. However, the original website took a picture from my personal website without my permission - a fantasy costume and so specified - and made a critique as if it was an historical one. I do hope that this will not happen on your new version. Suzi

Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)

2005-07-27 Thread Cynthia Virtue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for your reassurance. I think the premise behind the original one was - Take any image and do a critique which I think is questionable to say the least. The old site didn't specify that it had to be a picture of one's own work, or even if the site was trying

Re: [h-cost] Good News

2005-07-27 Thread Sue Clemenger
weg I'd be happy to take the problem off your hands entirely! --sue Stephen Bergdahl wrote: I have to brag! It seem that I won this weeks $100 Shopping Spree at Fabric.Com. Still in shock and now I have to figure out what to spend it on. I've got a dozen ideas all screaming at me. Do I

Re: [h-cost] launching a new Am I Period or Not website (cross post)

2005-07-27 Thread Robin Netherton
On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Elizabeth Walpole wrote: I will do what I can to stop image theft but I don't have the resources to search the internet every time somebody submits a picture so, I'm going to work on a presumption of innocence until proven guilty. However I will keep a record of the name

Re: [h-cost] medieval garb for nursing mothers

2005-07-27 Thread Sue Clemenger
Not that I know of, although discussions about same do come up on some of the medieval lists that I'm on. Discussions seem to center around the easiest ways to modify historical clothing (e.g., where/how to place a neck slit in an earlier-period tunic or shift lacing lines), or which styles

[h-cost] Re: Suggestions for London - Fan Museum

2005-07-27 Thread Agnes Gawne
The Fan museum is in Greenwich (near naval museum) also next to the house Daniel Day Lewis grew up in, his father was poet laureate for United Kingdom at the time. There is a plaque marking it. It is an easy walk from the tube station. It is a lovely small museum with a fine orangery in the

[h-cost] Re: suggestions for london

2005-07-27 Thread Gail Scott Finke
The first time I went to London, my parents insisted that I promise to see the Crown Jewels. Not much interested in jewelry, I balked -- but then I figured I was going to the Tower anyway, so why not? Go. See the Crown Jewels. They are unbelievable, and this from (again) someone not much

Re: [h-cost] Good News

2005-07-27 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 7/27/2005 9:10:20 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is Bengaline, havent got a clue? Since no one has replied yet--it is one of the crosswise ribbed fabrics (originally made from silk, of course), similar to faille and grosgrain. There is

[h-cost] Am I period or not

2005-07-27 Thread Lavolta Press
One thing to do might be to have people submit not only their own photos, but a brief statement (like one paragraph) about their goal in creating the costume and what they want out of a critique. Like, their goal was 100% accuracy for a woman's Viking outfit, their goal was to create as good

Re: [h-cost] New Martha McCain Simplicity Pattern

2005-07-27 Thread Kimiko Small
At 06:42 PM 7/27/2005, you wrote: And yes, the new Simplicity Martha McCain pattern is very nice. There is also a visiting dress coming out--it is made up in bright purple for the envelope. Is that #4510? Because if it is, that one came out a month or so ago as I bought it from Hancock's in

[h-cost] Off to Turin

2005-07-27 Thread Pam Dotson
I'm off to Turin, Italy early Friday morning. I haven't yet read my guidebooks, I think I'll do that on the flight(s) over. Does anyone know of anything textile related that I shouldn't miss? I mean, of course, other than the famous Shroud, which if it is a fake, is still several hundred

[h-cost] note on ribbit-tat site

2005-07-27 Thread otsisto
Went to the site. You have some spelling errors. Thought you might want to know. All of our Frogs and other items are . so that each on(e) . can be loved by either Adults or Children. We stock the finest col(l)ection of Fairy Bottles to be found and our... Nice site. :) De