Latex paint, thinned down, is an inexpensive way to color fabric. Just make
a template for stenciling of the correct shape of the camouflage design.
Make it on muslin that is either solid color or that you have dyed/painted
one base color first.
Sharon C.
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From:
I am reproducing the ensemble from the Margaret Fitzgerald tomb effigy, in
St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland. The headdress is the Irish
version of the heart shaped headdress. Any and all advice regarding
construction or application (kputting it on) would be greatly appreciated.
I have
For those, like me, who had to go look it up, an image of the headdress is here:
http://www.tara.tcd.ie/bitstream/2262/25836/1/ertk1721.jpg
Guenièvre
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Regina Lawson reginalaws...@gmail.com wrote:
I am reproducing the ensemble from the Margaret Fitzgerald tomb
If you have the book Medieval Tailor's Assistant, I am pretty it she covers how
to make such headdresses. Otherwise, perhaps Cynthia Virtue's website?
http://www.virtue.to/articles/
Teena
From: Guenievre de Monmarche guenie...@erminespot.com
To: Historical
Umm, that looks like a standard two-horned hennin (?) type headdress to
me with a the lady dressed in a houpelande. With a ruffle edged veil
pinned between the horns and plain edged on the back side? I would
guess that the interesting things on the ruffled veil are broaches or
veil pins with
They look like those doll cakes you used to get for parties!
Kathleen Norvell
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From: Hope Greenberg hope.greenb...@uvm.edu
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 9:54 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Azalea Trail Maids: Antebellum Costumes
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No, I haven't, but when I was in high school, our theater department had a huge
roll of parachute material that we used for costumes. It was a bear to dye --
would not take color at all unless coerced. we used that stuff for years!
Kathleen Norvell
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From: M311
Regina,
Have you seen Cynthia Virtue's articles on hats?
http://www.virtue.to/articles/
I think it would be under the Complex Women's Hats section
Kimiko
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Regina Lawson wrote:
The headdress is the Irish
version of the heart shaped headdress. Any and all advice
