Re: [h-cost] Lark Rise to Candleford

The dress has a delightful bustle or back sweep on the skirt - - I suggest watching the series and freeze framing pics of Dorcas - it is available on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gsD78eahg - or writing the costume designer :) Sarah Paterson - Original Message - I just

Re: [h-cost] resources on Victorian tailoring techniques

A good starting book is Classic Tailoring Techniques, A Construction Guide For Men's Wear Roberto Caberera and Patricia Flaherty Meyers . Not turn of the century but they have great step-by-step pictorial how to for canvassing coats, etc Sarah Paterson / Bess Darnley - Original Message

Re: [h-cost] Piece of vintage baleen stay

I know in Canada you can be gifted with baleen, but there may be issues in the selling/buying of it (unless already in a garment) - leastwise it was when I was on the hunt for it over 10 years ago..you may have better luck at your friendliest costume museum. Bess Darnley / Sarah Paterson

Re: [h-cost] Silk velvet and closure of fabric sources

Tell him to be careful, many times the guys in Seoul tried to sell my mum, polyester-silk as silk. My mum: Silk? Guys: Nae (head nodding) My mum: no, not silk Guy: Nae, silk...polyester-silk mind you we lived there when I was a kid a few mumble decades ago but I noticed a similar trend in

Re: [h-cost] Have you seen this magazine cover?

Further research has me finding this page that suggests the layout of your copy of the magazine's title header started around 1927 http://www.magazineart.org/main.php/v/womens/pictorialreview/ Sarah - Original Message - Have you done a library search (if no one here can help you) ?

Re: [h-cost] Have you seen this magazine cover?

I have to say, if we are right - what a team! Sarah Paterson/ Bess Darnley - Original Message - Seems to be April 8, 1928 Seems as if it's after Feb 1928, so best bet is to find out what month Easter, 1928 might be. Obviously the February cover shown here isn't a bride :)

Re: [h-cost] My Latest Finds: beaded gown photos

The Label says it is Filipino, Iloilo City being in the Philippines..a very cool find indeed! Sarah Paterson, a long ago visitor to that neck of the woods - Original Message - -Original Message- It is a gown made in the Filippines. The design is Filippino. ex: (Similar bead

Re: [h-cost] Color dye mixing

I agree, browns, and for depth at least one part black. I once de-fuchsia-ed some linen with a deep red and brown dye for a much nicer rich red. Sarah Paterson/Bess Darnley - Original Message - Snip If it were me, I'd overdye with brown--anything from a bright rust, to a sepia,

Re: [h-cost] boning order, want to share?

FYI I am not sure on shipping rates but we North American's have Greenberg Hammer that sell bones by the pound (rolls) as well as by the piece in rigid steel and spirals.. http://www.greenberg-hammer.com Sarah Paterson/ Bess Darnley - Original Message - Hi, I will be ordering

Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?

A new c.1260 Mongolian Over Caftan for my husband. Red Linen. I am working on the embroidery. ** Sarah Paterson Owner/Operator Blaikie House Bed Breakfast 8 Wharf Road PO Box 64 Great Village, Nova Scotia B0M1L0 (902) 668-2985 www.blaikiehouse.ca 20%

[h-cost] Fw: Fabric Advice

Not historic in nature, but can anyone advise other than my suggestion of a vinegar/water spray and brushing with a clean clothes brush? Thank you Sarah Paterson/Bess Darnley - Original Message - I need your advice, please. Carole-Ann has an expensive 100% light wool suit that is

Re: [h-cost] Fw: Fabric Advice

idea with a finished suit, though. (I don't know what water-soluble sizings might be in the interfacings) Emma/Jane Quoting SPaterson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not historic in nature, but can anyone advise other than my suggestion of a vinegar/water spray and brushing with a clean clothes

Re: [h-cost] fabric search

Have you tried a Tartan shop? Google Tartan Fabric and you may get a hit or two...but it may be $$ Sarah Paterson - Original Message - I am searching for wool (coat or blanket weight) in a red or blue plaid. I'd also accept heavy weight flannel in red or blue plaid. I've looked

Re: [h-cost] Janet Arnold latest

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patterns-Fashion-Construction-Headwear-1540-1665/dp/0333570820/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8s=booksqid=1211385839sr=8-11 Sarah - Original Message - From: monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 1:02 PM Subject:

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Coifs

What part of the era? I wear plain cheeks ears over a forehead cloth, c1570 - or do they want a blackwork worked quoife - or a pattern for the polychromatic? (Both of which I cannot yet prove was worn in public) Drea has a great gallery of original embroidered quoifes. I also might know who

Re: [h-cost] Number of machines.Was Sewing and Embroidery Machines

I have 18 sewing machines in my house; two on loan making a whopping 20. Four are treadles, two feather weights, and the earliest dates (that I can tell) from 1919 I may have earlier models but I cannot trace them. This also includes my one lone serger and my industrial machine. My main machine

Re: [h-cost] Adding color to silk

I once added colour to trim by hand painting it with regular dye - it was highly successful. Sarah Paterson - Original Message - -Original Message- I have a length of silk taffeta that has an embroidery pattern that is invokative of an Elizabethan pattern, except that it is

[h-cost] another soucre for pictoral research

I am subscribed to Sotherby's Auction Catalogue Online and this week they have sent me one called Important British Paintings. You have to sign up to fully browse the site but if you do you can get really close up views of the paintings. There are several Elizabethan paintings and Bjarne, many

[h-cost] Sharing another soucre for pictoral research

I am subscribed to Sotherby's Auction Catalogue Online and this week they have sent me one called Important British Paintings. You have to sign up to fully browse the site but if you do you can get really close up views of the paintings. There are several Elizabethan paintings and Bjarne, many

Re: [h-cost] Ideas

Might make a nice 18th c quilted petticoat... Sarah - Original Message - I have a comforter, pillow cases and curtains. Preferably the clothing I would creat out of it would be in a medieval style. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Thank you. *´¨) ¸.·´¸.·´¨)

Re: [h-cost] What happened to tudor-portraits.com?

http://web.archive.org/web/20070517100921/http://www.tudor-portraits.com/ I can find it with the Way Back Machine Sarah Paterson - Original Message - Greetings, Does anyone know what happened to the Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits website? (http://www.tudor-portraits.com/) For

Re: [h-cost] What happened to tudor-portraits.com?

I actually don't know how long it will be up through that archive - you may want to consider saving any images you may need to disc...but it is a great tool for old or defunct sites. Sarah - Original Message - Oooh, neat! Is this a permanent archive or a temporary one? Thanks,

Re: [h-cost] Metrosexual???? OT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrosexual this is what I found... Sarah Paterson - Original Message - Okay, this may be a little off topic, but since I heard it on the Tudor Fashion special (TFS) on showtime, maybe it isn't too bad. I heard the word Metrosexual (MS) for the first

Re: [h-cost] Help finding an article?

I would, too please - I thought I had it but I cannot find it. Sarah Paterson ( I used to have a photocopy that did not survive 5 moves) - Original Message - - Original Message - I have it. It's not a very good copy, but I do have it. Do you still need it? Melanie

[h-cost] Colleges for studying costuming and fashion

http://theatre.dal.ca/Academics/Costume_Studies.php Dalhousie Costume Studies Program, Halifax, Nova Scotia Sarah Paterson - alumnus - Original Message - Has anyone come across any online sites that list colleges/universities that give degrees in fashion and/or MFAs in costume design

Re: [h-cost] 1690s hunting gown

Well my guess is that the tasseled ribbon is a fancy lanyard on her walking stick/riding crop. I am not convinced the sleeves are fore-shortened in cut but I am not a late 17thc re-enactor - but the chemise ruffles could be either lace or fabric - I have seen both and I think it speaks to

Re: [h-cost] Pants tayloring question ...

Well let me make it clear - if the extra fabric is above the crotch or along the hipline or above then it would be a too-long-waist situation and shortening the 'rise' would be in order. If the excess fabric is below the hip in the crotch area as where a man might 'dress' (left or right) that

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ and links off from there Sarah Paterson - Original Message - Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try

[h-cost] late 15th c English under dress dress

Again I give the offer of someone who is small breasted and wears this: http://www.freewebs.com/bessdarnley/mistressisobelmowbray.htm she can be reached at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sarah Paterson ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com

Re: [h-cost] Re: GFD and cleavage

I have a friend who is particularly savvy on this subject and got pics of effigies while in Britain - do you want her contact info? Sarah Paterson - Original Message - From: Elizabeth Walpole [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historic Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Re: [h-cost] straight front corset

I know the book the author, it does not, in my opinion, teach you how to draft corsets. It does show draping but you have to know how to make corsets first or be very familiar with the medium. Sarah Paterson - Original Message -

Re: [h-cost] Pirates otC dress

Yes, I had to stop watching and only listen to that episode. It was rather rough on a costumer's sensibilities. I have been involved in a documentary piece In the Village by Nexus Productions where I was listed (and paid) as the head of wardrobe, but in actual fact I only had control over the

Re: [h-cost] Hand crank, treadle machines--where to look; what to pay?

I think so, leastwise machines that are at least 40 years old that sit at yards sales with all their attachments for $10.00 or featherweights with all of their attachments booklets that date to WW2 just seem to call to me...even my exhusband has been known to show up at the house after auction

Re: [h-cost] Re. Buttonhole attachment

Head, Carol Old Sewing Machines Shire Publications Ltd, Buckinghamshire: c.1995 page 22 ..In Germany in 1882 John Kayser built a sewing machine that could sew with a zigzag stitch. This idea had been developed in America as early as 1854, when a buttonhole machine was patented. The zigzag

Re: [h-cost] Hand crank, treadle machines--where to look; what to pay?

Flea markets, Yard sales and auctions. I got my four treadles from auctions for $100.00 CDN each or less. My c. 1920 hand crank was equally inexpensive. They can be found if you look - and all five of those I mentioned still work. Is it the foot pedal that is the trouble? I once found a table

Re: [h-cost] Fabric Resources

Wish I was home for you to browse my books, Catherine - for female attire Silk Designs of the Eighteenth Century - Natalie Rothstein ISBN 0-8212-1812-3 comes to mind as well as the VA Museum's Textile ollection - woven textile design in Britian to 1750 ISBN 1-55859-849-9 but there are many

Re: [h-cost] Tudor Jewellery

While I agree about the clashing metals - I do not about just because those who could afford portraits wore it so it could not possibly be the other theory...this is the time that lays the foundation for the middleclasses of the 17th 18th century - I just wish Elizabethans had camerasBut

Re: [h-cost] about shaping bones in stays

I am not Suzi, but when I interned at Jamestown I also got to play in the Yorktown Collection. There was a pair of extant stays that were of similar construction and definately 18th c. but cut more like CC page 40 but still like the 1740's - almost wall-to wall whalebone with the cross boning.

[h-cost] Corset cutting suggestion

Have you tried using your own basic block (sloper)as the basis for the corset and drawing in the corset lines as applicable - (yes, there is more to this process than just drawing in the lines, there is dart manipulation and taking off the required amounts to change the shape..etc) I can

Re: [h-cost] ladys 18th century tangled garden

I like the pleated look, it is a cleaner and more flattering line - it gets my vote Sarah Paterson - Original Message - Hi, I have uploaded some pictures of the jacket i am working on for my girl friend in Sweden. This bodice i have drafted after a girls jacket in a danish

Re: [h-cost] Ruff

IMNTBHO, before Sarah P. - Original Message - From: Shane Sheridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 12:30 PM Subject: [h-cost] Ruff It's Sunday morning, and the caffeine has not yet percolated its way into my brain, so here's a

Re: [h-cost] what do renaissance seamen look like?

During my internship at Jamestown I was asked to research the 'foot of the mariner' for the interpretive costume of the mariners c.1609. I wrote up my research which I did primarily at the Mariner's Museum in Newport News, VA - as I was surveying the dressing of the foot, it may be too narrow a