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

A stack of fabric and the adjusted pattern for an Edwardian outfit. Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 11:59 AM Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing today? It's

Re: [h-cost] Victorian Embellishments exhibit

I'm interested as well. Margaret - Original Message - From: Astrida Schaeffer astr...@schaefferarts.com To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Victorian Embellishments exhibit All who have expressed interest here so

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

I'm currently working on a gather skirt in dark pink velvet which will be part of a steam punk outfit. I've lost 50 lbs in the last year leaving 100 to go so I'm not being very ambitious. Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: Cin cinbar...@gmail.com To: H-costume h-cost

Re: [h-cost] Known World Costuming Symposium

I'm planning on going. Margaret Decker Since I am not going to Costume College for the first time in like 12 years, because I was going to Pennsic, however? The prices on airfare has made that almost impossible So in November? In Chicago I was wondering if anyone was going to the SCA's

Re: [h-cost] Off Topic: Removing ink from cotton blend

. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ Margaret E. Geiss-Mooney Textile/Costume Conservator Collections Management Consultant Professional Associate - AIC 707-763-8694 m...@textileconservator.com .. alcohol is essential.how Everex so is a blotted. We used to get instant out of our

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

Mine has 4 yards of brown velvet with a fine pink stripe, and a yard each of bright pink satin and dark brown silk that is supposed to turn into a 1910 day dress. Oh and a half completed corset. Margaret Decker It's that time of year when the calendar is full of spring teas, summer holidays

Re: [h-cost] Costume-Con 30

I'm planning on being there . Margaret Decker - Original Message - From: cc2010m...@cs.com To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 4:09 PM Subject: [h-cost] Costume-Con 30 Hello! I know a few folks on here will be at CC30 in Tempe, Arizona, other than

Re: [h-cost] 1958 prom dress

My 1958 prom dress was very simple. White floor length, netting over satin full skirt with a strapless top of satin with the netting in tiny vertical folds covering it. I hadn't thought of it in years. Margaret - Original Message - From: Bambi TBNL hippy_dippy_dan...@yahoo.com To: h

Re: [h-cost] marking tools

Anahita, Try wetting the edge of your tailor's chalk.  Most chalk will actually leave a more intense line if its a little damp. I find I prefer the old, hard, mostly unused tailors chalk because I can get a very fine line out of it this way. Margaret Perhaps my blue tailor's chalk

Re: [h-cost] Storing a wedding gown

or clarification. Regards, Meg . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___ Margaret E. Geiss-Mooney Textile/Costume Conservator Collections Management Consultant Professional Associate - AIC 707-763-8694 m...@textileconservator.com ...pack up her wedding gown

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

it to me for 1/3 the price. Margaret It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties, winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair, theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night. You might even be planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical

Re: [h-cost] Hoop storage (was (no subject))

Kimiko, As wonderful as Farthingales' Hoop Connectors were, they are no longer available (I'm referring to the Connectors, NOT the Hoop Steel Ends). Sorry to be the bearer of bad news... Margaret Roe Dance resources at www.mroeproductions.com Clothing resources

[h-cost] atten Robin

I will be at Cost-con 28. Do you need any assistance. I've lost your e-mail add. Margaret Decker ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] non paned trunkhose pre 1600

class and began to adopt canons. Two good images of Galley Hose are http://www.elizabethan-portraits.com/Workman.jpg and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/Edward_Herbert_1st_Baron_Herbert_of_Cherbury_by_Isaac_Oliver.jpg . I hope that helps, Margaret I've been asked to help

Re: [h-cost] Woman's waistcoat 17th cent.

Most of the following info is from Jane Huggett's Clothes of the Common Woman 1580-1660. The modern word bodice derives from the period term bodies, or pair of bodies (pair meaning something made in more than one part). It therefore more correctly refers to stays or corset. A waistcoat worn with

[h-cost] Where to start

I'm interested in playing with Regency England fashions but know almost nothing about them. Can anyone recomend a good book or two on this topic? Margaret ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h

Re: [h-cost] Could you be a model in 1894???

About 45 to 50 years ago I could have but that was before three kids and quitting smoking. Margaret On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:51:16 -0400 Penny Ladnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was typing the history of the coat cloak industry from 1894. The following were the requirements for a model

Re: [h-cost] Question for embroiderers

Thank you so much for trying. I went shopping while in CA for cost-con-26 and found some lovely fabric so the other project is on hold for a while anyway. Margaret Hi Margaret, I am sorry I did not get back to you sooner but everything was in chaos when I go back from London. We lost one

Re: [h-cost] H-costumers at CostumeCon

Me too and I'm just as curious. Margaret Decker Hi, Cin, I'm going. What's this about scarlet letters? Sharon Collier As probably the closest one to the Con (it's 2miles from my house) I thought I'd start the discussion. Who's going? Should we meet for tea photo ops? Shall we wear

Re: [h-cost] looking for tudor/elizabethan references

one was by Bronzino or one of his students. Margaret Hi Margaret-- Could you please reference the Bronzino paintings you wrote about? I am VERY interested ... Thanks- Monica ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com

Re: [h-cost] looking for tudor/elizabethan references

This is not Tudor or Elizabethan, but Bronzino did at leasttwo of the same person in the same dress with different sleeves. Margaret Help!! My consort and I are preparing a class about visual sources and why they should not be taken as 100% gospel when doing costuming research

Re: [h-cost] Question for embroiderers

The colors hold true for the whole spool (it comes on a spool as a single thread which I like), did not fray easily, and did not tangle if I used bee's wax. Margaret Is this superior to other embroidery threads? Anne ___ h-costume mailing list

Re: [h-cost] Question for embroiderers

Does anyone know of a distributor here in the US for Pearsalls Silk Embroidery Thread? I inherited some several years ago but its about gone now and I would love to get some more. It is made in England. Margaret ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Book Order

If you want to go with another vendor, you might check with Devra Langsam at Poison Pen Press www.poisonpenpress.com . No discount, but she handles a wide range of medieval and Renaissance costuming books and The Tudor Tailor appears to be in stock. Bear I just got my third order delay

Re: [h-cost] Your dream costume

I was thinking of what my next costume would be and I came to an interesting question. What would be your dream costume? If you wouldn't be limited by money or your own expertise. The red Bronzino and a slimmer me. Margaret ___ h-costume mailing

Re: [h-cost] Questionable identification on exhibit item

It is most likely a mis-identification by the donor. This is always a problem for museums. Margaret ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Translation help

I'm not as well read as most on this list, but I think feel will mean more to the general reader. My poor benighted husband understands that term but not hand. Margaret I need reactions from a sampling of avid readers of textile literature, and where better to find it than here? I'm editing

Re: [h-cost] Re: Leading strings

. I don't think they were new when I got them. The came from England. Try Googling Leadstrings. These were off white and are now a greyish white. They did not look out of place and fitted fairly well under the outer tunic. Margaret ___ h-costume

[h-cost] Fw: [Sca-cooks] OOP / OT : Crochet Peeps

I thought some of you might find this of interest. Margaret Lacis is re-printing some of the earliest known crochet patterns *real soon* http://www.lacis.com . From the Lacis newsletter: We are also happy to announce the arrival of THE FIRST TWELVE CROCHET BOOKS OF MLLE. RIEGO DE LA

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

Well she's not here yet. Santa promised me one that will fit my Queen sized figure. Margaret Decker ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Secret Santa??

I'm fairly new to the list. Tell me more. Margaret: Ailith Mackintosh wrote: Greetings. I was wondering if we're going to do a Secret Santa this year. I love the gifts that I got last year - the most important gift being a new friend! I was going to announce it next week. :) Count me

Re: [h-cost] Glove booklett published

I have only had time to skim so far, but I like what I've seen so far. Good job. After nearly 20 years of off and on working on it I got my book published. :) The Compleat Anachronist Spring 2006 Making Elizabethan Gloves CA0131 http://tinyurl.com/q4lh7 It says Spring but it actually got

Re: [h-cost] When and how did you start making costume?

In about 1948 or 1949. I wanted to be a princess like the pictures in one of our books. Probably very styalised but thaniks to 4H training the costume passed mustard. Margaret ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http

Re: [h-cost] Re:Question on tenth century

Ireland for husband, Florence for myself. - Original Message - From: Caroline [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2006 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Re:Question on tenth century Which country are you wanting Margaret? On 03/03/06

Re: [h-cost] Re:Question on tenth century

I want to star making some new stuff for my husband my self and need a good starting place for Tenth century clothing construction. I have a lot of pictures but nothing on construction. Margaret ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com