I've always wanted to do a Dress for Success series, with titles like,
What the Well-Dressed Sacrifice Is Wearing, Dress Appropriately to Be
Murdered, Be a Good-Looking Corpse 1,000 Years from Now, and so forth.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
http://www.f-aau.com/examinationcover/Martin_Bennett86/
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didn't mean to diss any non-East coaching/driving folk; just that what I found
on-line first was the Newport weekend page...
ch.
On Jun 29, 2012, at 7:57 AM, Data-Samtak Susan wrote:
A correction to the the East Coast upper crust here in the US.:
Many horse owners ride and drive their
On Jun 28, 2012, at 5:01 PM, Laura Rubin wrote:
This from a bog body:
http://sciencenordic.com/dyed-clothes-came-fashion-early-iron-age
I can see why you did a double take on the houndstooth. Incredible that what
survived, did so very well. And was dyed. Awesome!
Thanks for sharing.
Kimiko
It is also , for some of us, pre- Pennsic panic
when time is even away by garb productio,packing list penning,provision pre
cooking, pavilion perusing and proper pandemonium. Message-
Date: Friday, June 29, 2012 12:27:06 pm
To: h-costume-indra.com Costume h-cost...@indra.com
From: Patricia
Would love a source if you have one. I have someone that has drummed into
folks that patterned cloth only goes as far back as the Middle Ages. The
Iron Age article will dumbstrike her and further back will blow her away. :)
-Original Message-
Actually, patterned cloth is much older than
Ginni said:
The foregoing is courtesy of a misspent youth in which I read copious amounts
of Georgette Heyer.
Ginni, Ginni, NO time spent reading Georgette Heyer is mispent!
Mary Piero Carey
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Thank you to everyone for explaining what is a whip.
Penny Ladnier, owner
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I did see this the first time (in Digest 142, delivered on Friday) -- but I've
also been having trouble with h-costume messages not showing up in either my
Inbox or my Junk folder.
It's really frustrating to read replies to queries we never saw! In June, I
didn't get Digests 134 or 141. I
We viewed some of coaching weekend events at Newport a few years ago, at
Marble House, it coincided with the Newport vintage Dance Week that year.
http://www.vintagedancers.org/newport/index.html
It was really fun to watch them go through their paces, it added a bit more
period ambiance to our
At 02:36 PM 6/29/2012, you wrote:
Would love a source if you have one. I have someone that has drummed into
folks that patterned cloth only goes as far back as the Middle Ages. The
Iron Age article will dumbstrike her and further back will blow her away. :)
-Original Message-
Actually,
The mummy bundles of peru are another example. One of the oldest known textile
is a rug/ cloth found in a tomb in the Far eastbif i remember correctly. I
don't remember the name. It has small figures along the edge.
Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 1, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Joan Jurancich
the Urumchi/Taklamakan textiles are dated 1900 BC to 200 AD (Wiki article on
Tarim Mummies); and that article notes that EJW Barber compared the textiles
to those at the Halstatt salt mines, which are dated 8th to 6th centuries BC
(European Early Iron Age) in the Wiki Halstatt article. (I had
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