, and the shawl will be put up for sale there.
http://www.ravelry.com/designers/emily-gilbert
Emily
On 12/17/2015 11:59 PM, Marjorie Wilser wrote:
As a fellow knitter I’d be very interested to know about your designs. Do you
have a Rav name?
==Marjorie Wilser
On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:40 PM
Having heard Ann's talk at the JASNA AGM, I can confirm that it was
excellent in person too!
I'm still here too. I haven't been doing much sewing lately, aside from
making a chemisette to go with my Regency day dress this fall; most of
my creative energies these days are focused on knitting
. That might even
technically be irony! (I only saw rescued it because I was looking for
something else. Apparently when your business is named 'Ambitious Rubbish'
it also sets off the spam filter a bit too often)
-E House
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Emily Gilbert emchantm...@gmail.com
wrote
in gmail... I check every other day or
so, or whenever I feel I'm missing part of the conversation.
Emily, I love your little mouse picture! Is it something you made?
LynnD
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Emily Gilbert emchantm...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 2/27/2015 2:12 PM, Sybella wrote:
Hm
Well, for starters, the skirt gathers should all be at the back. You
want the front of the skirt to be smooth and flat. The bodice, on the
other hand, should be gathered in front, over the bust, and smooth at
the back. (The shaping of the bodice pieces doesn't look quite right
either, but
On 2/27/2015 2:12 PM, Sybella wrote:
Hm. It looks like the list is only sending me some of the messages in this
conversation. Charlene took a quote from Ann's but I never received Ann's
message at all! I wonder what else I'm missing. :(
Ann's messages tend to go into my spam folder for some
Worker of the Party”: Making and Mending the Family’s Wardrobe
Ann Wass
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From: Emily Gilbert emchantm...@gmail.com
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Tue, Jan 20, 2015 1:25 pm
Subject: Re: [h-cost] anyone here
On 1/15/2015 5:11 AM, annbw
On 1/15/2015 5:11 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote:
I'm also presenting a paper at the Jane Austen Society of North America's
Annual General Meeting in Louisville in October.
Neat! I submitted a breakout proposal for the Louisville AGM (my first
time doing so), but didn't get accepted. What's
I got the Regency Wardrobe pattern from La Mode Bagatelle - pattern
pieces for several different skirt, bodice, and sleeve styles (plus
accessories) that can be put together into a huge range of different
garments! My aunt and uncle also sent me a silk shawl that they bought
in Tanzania,
That's my impression too. I believe Bright Star is set a little later
than the usual Regency era (c. 1820), but that's still a time when
gentlemen would have been wearing sideburns, not beards.
Emily
On 12/2/2013 4:05 AM, Kate Bunting wrote:
The other week I watched the film Bright star on
I think you mean Twelfth Night, not The Tempest. As You Like It has the
woman-dressing-as-a-boy thing too.
Emily
On 10/6/2013 8:13 PM, hippy_dippy_dan...@yahoo.com wrote:
There are several late periOd ilustrtions of ottomanentertainers performing
dressed as women nd of course no womam
I'm not an expert on this topic, but looking at the link to the fashion
notes for the year, which refer to the curious and startling
open-crowned coronet bonnet (toward the bottom of the left-hand column
on that page), I'd say it's reasonably safe to assume that your leghorn
does have a crown!
By any chance, is the ballgown for the JASNA AGM at the end of this
month? If so, I'll be there too. I'm not making a new ballgown, but I
do want to come up with something new to put in my hair.
Emily
On 9/10/2013 1:20 PM, annbw...@aol.com wrote:
She should be wearing a red Regency-era
That is fascinating! Thanks for sharing the link.
Emily
On 6/10/2013 7:44 AM, snsp...@aol.com wrote:
Feature on the first fashion book written by a 16th-century accountant in
Augsburg, Germany:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22766029
Nancy
The only contribution I can make is that in Arthur Ransome's Swallows
and Amazons books, written and set in the 1930s, a small boy (Roger) is
described as wearing knickerbockers.
Emily
On 3/20/2013 3:05 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
Ah the wonderful vagaries of fashion terms. Here's what I
Count me in!
Emily
On 1/29/2013 11:50 AM, Astrida Schaeffer wrote:
All who have expressed interest here so far are on the list ;) and I promise to
keep h-cost updated as well.
Astrida
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I'm charmed that this photo is titled Godl Doublet!
Emily
On 1/13/2013 3:51 AM, Catherine Walton wrote:
To wish everyone on this list a bright New Year, I'm sending you this
link to a photo of a brilliant garment, which I came across recently
by some serendipity:-
exhibition of Sir
Not precisely costume-related, but is anyone else planning to attend the
Jane Austen Society of North America's annual general meeting in New
York City, Oct. 5-7? I'm going for the first time, and I wondered if
any of you might be there.
Emily
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My guess is that it means the person driving the coach or carriage. A
century earlier, during the Regency era, someone who was good at driving
a horse or horses was called a notable whip.
Emily
On 6/27/2012 11:41 PM, penn...@costumegallery.com wrote:
I am working with a 1914 etiquette book
Those are astonishing!
By the way, the fourth photo down is labeled a dress based on a 1730
design, but it looks to me more like a gentleman's banyan over a
waistcoat. What do you all think?
Emily
On 6/26/2012 2:55 AM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
Oh, I do waste so much time these days
Wow! There's so much to drool over in that slideshow. I kept pausing
it to get a better look at the costumes as they went by.
Emily
On 4/11/2012 3:23 PM, Linda Walton wrote:
A costume drama at Sands Films studios – audio slideshow | Film |
guardian.co.uk
I'm working on the Past Patterns 1793-1820 Transition Stay (which,
incidentally, I do not recommend as a pattern unless you already know
what you're doing - the instructions are very vague and confusing in
several crucial areas). I got myself into a major muddle with the
initial round of
Thanks for your input, everyone! It sounds like I'd be best off using
coutil or something similar, Saundra's recommendation notwithstanding.
Emily
On 2/6/2012 7:00 PM, Joan Jurancich wrote:
According to Montgomery, Textiles in America, Nankeen is a cotton
cloth of plain weave originally
Hello all,
I'm planning to make the Past Patterns 1793-1820 Transition Stay. It
says that the stay the pattern was taken from was made in nankeen, and
that nankeen is unlike any fabric available in today's market, but
doesn't offer any suggestions as to what to use instead. Does anyone
Lightweight cotton sheeting? It's a good thing I asked - I was thinking
more along the lines of a sturdy twill!
Emily
On 2/6/2012 1:00 PM, Katy Bishop wrote:
I asked Saundra the same question and she recommended a cotton
sheeting. It has to be lightweight.
Katy
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at
I got Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1660-1860, Nineteenth Century
Fashion in Detail (a VA book with absolutely stunning photographs), and
After a Fashion by our own Fran, which looks like one of the most useful
general reference books a costumer could have!
I also got the Roumanian
Hi Claudine,
Websites, books, patterns, etc. that you've found useful. I'm more
interested in making clothing for an existing doll than in making the
doll itself, and I'd prefer the kind of doll that's proportioned as an
adult woman. I've read the book Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes:
My list usually tends heavily toward books, too. This year I'm planning
to ask for Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion: 1660-1860 (believe it or
not, I've never even read it!), and a VA book called 19th Century
Fashion in Detail that apparently has gorgeous photographs.
Emily
On 11/5/2011
I've seen references in Regency novels to dogskin gloves, which I always
assumed was leather made from the hide of a dog, like kidskin. If it
turns out that it was a fabric, I'll feel much better!
Emily
On 10/30/2011 10:24 AM, Ruth Anne Baumgartner wrote:
Hello the list:
I'm directing a
Oh, you lucky! I wish I were close enough to attend. That event they
did last August with people being Jane Austen characters sounds even
more fun. Did you attend that?
Emily
On 10/6/2011 3:39 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
I've done talks in various places about this period, usually couched
I'm almost finished with the first of two quasi-Victorian skirts for the
local historic house, which doesn't do much costumed stuff at the moment
but would like to. I offered my sewing skills, and they gave me the
patterns and fabric and said Go to it! The skirt I'm on now is a
heavy
They barely have fashions pre-1900 - except for the corsets...
Emily
On 9/28/2011 10:45 AM, Bonnie Booker wrote:
Still no fashions pre-1600?
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Slightly OT, but a friend of mine writes YA fantasy, and while her first
few covers were a little dubious, she's really pleased with the designs
for her upcoming book and for a new edition of another one. She says
for once the cover pictures actually look like her heroines.
Emily
On
My personal frustration with novels of historical fiction is when the
publishers take a piece of real art work from a period, and use it for the
another, completely wrong period.
This happened to some extent with the recent reissue of Georgette
Heyer's Georgian and Regency novels. The
Our dean keeps saying that Academic Dress (tm) is unchanged since the
14th Century -- I want to know what 14th C Academic Dress looks like!
I've always thought that some of the robes worn by my dad's colleagues
at Commencement - especially the ones that have velvet trim and a
floppy hat
Way cool! I know of one or two writers who really should have consulted
something like that...
Emily
On 7/20/2011 6:09 AM, Sharon Henderson wrote:
Hi folks,
I saw this on the Wall Street Journal site, of all places. It's an
article with a slideshow and an amusing video, about a lady who
London! Aaugh! When I started reading, I was hoping it was in the US.
Somebody needs to start a branch over here!
Emily
On 5/18/2011 10:11 AM, Franchesca wrote:
I just had to share ..
the school of historical dress
http://theschoolofhistoricaldress.org.uk/
This new school has a
I like them! It's a neat idea to post the Fashion Chit-Chat - it
gives a little window into the era.
Emily
On 5/10/2011 8:50 AM, Sandy Gowland wrote:
Hello Everybody,
I recently created a series of new costume blogs that I thought maybe some of
you might be interested in.
I've liked it too - and likewise didn't get a captcha.
Emily
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I can't find the reference (which is going to drive me nuts!), but I
seem to remember reading somewhere that it was because blue cloth was
more expensive to manufacture, so wearing a blue coat told people that
you could afford the best.
Emily
On 1/31/2011 7:53 PM, Hope Greenberg wrote:
/Wow /How does he do all the elaborate detail in the clothing at
such a small size? I may have to go to California just to see those in
person!
Emily
On 1/16/2011 1:22 AM, Marjorie Wilser wrote:
Hi group,
Some chat on the List of late about historical dolls, and today, I
thought of
Umm, I did go and read the website. They are not THAT small, he does them
one-quarter scale. So the average figure would be about 15-18 inches tall.
Okay, but they're still pretty cool!
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You're welcome! I'd spotted the book at my local library a while back,
and when you mentioned wanting to learn hair work, I thought of it right
away. Have fun experimenting with it - it sounds like a really neat craft!
Emily
On 1/8/2011 9:08 AM, Lisa A Ashton wrote:
Thanks for the
On 12/31/2010 10:46 AM, Lisa A Ashton wrote:
Does anyone have a book suggestion for learining to make Victorian hair
lockets/brooches? It's my dearest wish to start making these.
Hi Lisa,
I don't know whether it's exactly what you had in mind, but Lacis
publishes a reprint of an 1875 book
Ooh, post a picture when you're done - and pictures of the other gowns,
too! I think the concept of making doll-size historical costumes is
really interesting.
Emily
On 1/1/2011 9:45 PM, R Lloyd Mitchell wrote:
New year project: Finally have the stash and will to try an interpretation of
Those are so cute! Is that a little thrum cap on the Trindhoj Man?
Emily
On 1/2/2011 5:28 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
I've had a lot of fun making doll-sized replicas of costumes (and other goods)
from archaeological finds. There are some pictures of theme here:
I have Jane Austen's Sewing Box by Jennifer Forest on my list. It
features various small projects in handicrafts of the period, reportedly
with very pretty photos.
Emily
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The page on your site says they'll be closing within a month, but
doesn't give a date. Do you happen to know how long we have to order
things?
Emily
On 11/27/2010 5:06 PM, Franchesca wrote:
Greetings Costuming Collective,
I have been asked to help with the scanning of the pattern catalog
There's a Regency ball in South Bend, IN on March 26. I went last year,
and it was lovely!
http://regencymasqueradeball.blogspot.com/
Emily
On 11/21/2010 7:44 PM, Aylwen Gardiner-Garden wrote:
I am travelling to the US in March to attend Costume Accessories: Head to
Toe at Colonel
My local Hancock Fabrics is having a sale with Prym/Dritz dress forms
(the Twin Fit and My Double models) at $40 less than the usual price.
I've never had a dress form, and I'm wondering whether to take advantage
of this sale. Does anyone here have this kind of dress form? Is it
good
Oooh! That's going in my bookmarks right away!
Emily
Lavolta Press wrote:
This forum has numerous sub-forums devoted to early 19th-century sewing:
http://regencysa.proboards.com/index.cgi
You do not have to be a member of any society to post.
Fran
Lavolta Press
If you have a General catalog, I'd love to see that! I have an old
Patterns catalog, but I've been kicking myself that I never followed
through on my vague thoughts of sending away for a General one.
Emily
Franchesca wrote:
Yep, they are actually directing folks to them as you email them.
Oh, dear! I have his Empire Fashions coloring book... I guess I should
take it less seriously as a source of information.
Emily
Patricia Dunham wrote:
I just looked up his webpage... http://www.tomtierney.com/index.htm He's in his 80's by now, majority of his career he was a fashion
For one thing, I wasn't aware of the differentiation between tambour work and
other forms of embroidery.
As I understand it, tambour was worked with a hook rather than a
needle. You had the cloth stretched very tightly across the hoop/frame
(like a drum, hence the name - as in
Now I'm curious - how *do* you change clothes in a moving carriage or
sleigh?
Emily
AVCHASE wrote:
Hi, All:
My Grandmother told me to save my hair in a net bag (for making rats), I should make and once a year wash it, sqeeze out the moisture in a towel, and hang to air dry. She said I'd
I don't actually have a dummy (maybe someday!), but the first part of
this thread, about what they were wearing, got me thinking about what I
might name one if I did. At the moment I'm partial to Madame.
Emily
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Gorgeous!! I want the pink one.
Emily
otsisto wrote:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/haut/ho_C.I.49.3.25a,b.htm
De
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Maybe it was called a wringer in the USA or even just in Washington State, -
I wouldn't know.
I used to work in the farmhouse section of a small living history park
in Wisconsin, and we always referred to that device as a wringer. I
guess it's the American term.
Emily
Neat! I may have to look those up.
Emily
annbw...@aol.com wrote:
Yes, this is a great book, and actually documented to have been sold in the
US--As much as I liked it when it first came out, I had to wonder if
American women could have had access to it, so, when I found it advertised by a
I bought Costume in Detail at last year's ReenactorFest, and it's
definitely worth a squeee!
My best present was the 1790-1820 women's shift pattern from Kannik's
Korner - everything is historically documented, and all the directions
are for authentic handsewing techniques! I can't wait to
I'm hoping to get the Kannick's Korner 1790-1820 shift pattern for
Christmas, after which I want to make both that and a Regency ballgown
in preparation for the Lansing, MI Regency Exhibition Ball in late March.
Emily
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Oh, what fun - and what lovely dresses! It's almost enough to make me
wish I lived on the West Coast.
Emily
Sid Young wrote:
A friend on another list (Victorian Dresses) sent this link through, lots of
period costume for your references anyone from the list in any of the
photos?
I'm in Appleton.
Emily
cc2010m...@cs.com wrote:
Emily,
Where in Wisconsin are you?
Henry W. Osier
Chairman, Costume-Con 28
www.cc28.org
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Thank you!
Emily
cc2010m...@cs.com wrote
At the museum in Fond Du Lac, there is a reenactor working there. If I
remember correctly, her name is Mary. She could help you out.
Henry W. Osier
Chairman, Costume-Con 28
May 7 to May 10, 2010 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
www.CC28.org
Look for our fan
I'm two hours from Madison, so that's not a bad idea. I'll have to look
into it. Thanks!
Emily
Marjorie Wilser wrote:
Emily--
how close are you to Madison? The Wisconsin State Historical Society
has seamstresses it knows about, and one of them might be willing to
take an apprentice or
I love 19th-century costume, and I'd like to find someone who makes it
and would be willing to teach me how. Someone who lives in Wisconsin
would be best, but Illinois, Minnesota, or Michigan are acceptable too.
Can anyone put me in touch with someone like that?
Emily
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