On Mar 20, 2009, at 2:35 PM, sunshine.k.buch...@kp.org wrote:
There's also the theatrical costuming books but I don't collect
those...
so I don't know them off the top of my head... except for:
Patterns for Theatrical Costumes by Katherine Stand Holkeboer
I would echo the caution of
The Cut of Men's Clothes 1600-1900 by Norah Waugh - I think it has
something from 1600, but I'm at work and my copies' at home so I can't
check...
The Cut of Women's Clothes 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh - ditto the above
comment
Patterns of Fashion 4: The Cut and Construction of Linen Shirts,
Indeed, there are several easily-available theatrical costuming books
-- just remember, ease-of-availability doesn't have ANYthing to do
with how accurate the patterns are. Hill Bucknell, anyone?
chimene
...
There's also the theatrical costuming books but I don't collect those...
so I
Quoting Elizabeth Walpole ewalp...@grapevine.com.au:
Hi everyone,
I'm teaching a class next month at an SCA event on how to enlarge scaled
patterns in books to full size. I was going to include a list of books
relevant to SCA costumers (for those who aren't aware the SCA's time period
is
On Mar 19, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Elizabeth Walpole wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm teaching a class next month at an SCA event on how to enlarge
scaled
patterns in books to full size. I was going to include a list of books
relevant to SCA costumers (for those who aren't aware the SCA's time
period
is
Kathleen Gillies wrote:
Hi, I think I posted before. I sew regular clothing
and stuff and was approached by some new friends to
make them some garb for their pirate act/ren fair
jobs
My question, if you could use 3 books for this (these)
eras, which would you buy?
The ones I have
There really is no good costume pattern book for the Golden Age of
Piracy period, 1680-1720.
Try Reconstructing History www.reconstructinghistory.com .
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At 16:23 28/04/2008, you wrote:
Kathleen Gillies wrote:
Hi, I think I posted before. I sew regular clothing
and stuff and was approached by some new friends to
make them some garb for their pirate act/ren fair
jobs
My question, if you could use 3 books for this (these)
eras,
Audrey Bergeron-Morin wrote:
There really is no good costume pattern book for the Golden Age of
Piracy period, 1680-1720.
Try Reconstructing History www.reconstructinghistory.com .
I honestly have to say I don't recommend those patterns. They look nice,
and they cover a neglected
I think you mean Gentlemen of Fortune
http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/pirate_news.htm which used to be
run by a customer of mine - don't know if he's still involved.
Suzi
Yes, thanks Suzi!
Dawn
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My question, if you could use 3 books for this (these)
eras, which would you buy?
I have to agree with Dawn- Janet Arnold's book has excellent photos, but it is
pretty limited in
terms of the outfits discussed in it. (that said, I was very pleased to get a
copy of it at
Christmas- it is an
I haven't used the pirate ones, but the one I used was clear enough,
fit well together and generally worked well.
If you have issues about one of the patterns, you might want to tell
Kass, I'm sure she'd love to improve them.
I agree, though, that the cover gives an impression more than a
I think all of those books are worth having (except for The Costume close up -
I don't know this book very well, so I cannot tell) and you would sooner or
later buy them anyway. The Susan Khalje book is an excellent book of its sort -
not speaking of the nice design and pictures, it tells you
I haven't used them, but I've seen many pictures of finished garments that were
made with the help of these patterns and almost always the result was horrible.
Some of the patterns were - let's say - relatively accurate (compared to some
other patterns), but the look of the costumes - aahh...
I haven't used the pirate ones, but the one I used was clear enough,
fit well together and generally worked well.
I had a few problems with the two patterns I've made from Reconstructing
History, but I emailed
Kass and she was happy to help. I should mention that these patterns (or at
least
Kathleen - sounds like you've had quite an amazing journey! I'm impressed! I
love going to the period magazines also and like to compare them to photographs
of the matching timeframe to see how women interpreted the fashion plates into
real outfits. Plus viewing websites that have some
I must admit that I love all the books you have mentioned with the addition
of A Tailor's Manuel from 1589 by Juan Alcega, translation by Ruth Bean. I
did manage to gather up all the rest of the books available from David Brown
books and they are spoken for or sold. However, I would be surprised
Hi Beth and Happy New Year!
Thanks so much for sharing this. This is going to be an excellent
cross-reference tool for me.
All the Best,
Chris R.
Beth and Bob Matney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been loading a catalog of our reference collection online at
You are most welcome Chris.
If you come across a good reference that is not listed, please post
to the list or me personally.
Thanks,
Beth
At 04:47 PM 1/14/2008, you wrote:
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 11:07:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Beth and Happy New Year!
Thanks so
Quoting Sylvia Rognstad [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I teach a costume/fashion class and am wondering if there are any
costume history books that cover the 1960s up to 2000. All mine stop
around 1975. Has anyone written a more current one?
And on a similar note ...
What's your favorite text for
Try Fairchild Publishers. They do Women's Wear Daily. They just published
20th Century Dress in the United States by Jane Farrell-Beck and Jean
Parsons
ISBN: 978-1-56367-415-0. If you are getting books for the class, you can
usually get a copy for yourself to check before placing the order.
At 03:19 30/03/2007, you wrote:
Anyone know what books have good reproductions of the following images:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and white)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/english.jpg
A Fete at Bermondsey, Jorges Hoefnagle, 1575
At 03:44 30/03/2007, you wrote:
At 07:19 PM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
Anyone know what books have good reproductions of the following images:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and white)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/english.jpg
I don't think that this was
A Fete at Bermondsey, Jorges Hoefnagle, 1575
The largest version of this that I have seen in a book is (perhaps
necessarily) a detail and does not show the whole thing. It cuts off
the last three people standing on the left and everyone past the first
two girls with the big round cakes on
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Books with these images in them.
A Fete at Bermondsey, Jorges Hoefnagle, 1575
The largest version of this that I have seen in a book is (perhaps
necessarily) a detail and does not show the whole thing. It cuts off
the last three people standing on the left and everyone
30, 2007 1:43 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Books with these images in them.
At 03:19 30/03/2007, you wrote:
Anyone know what books have good reproductions of the following images:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and white)
http://www.uvm.edu
WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and white)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/english.jpg
A Fete at Bermondsey, Jorges Hoefnagle, 1575
Saragrace, I don't remember off the top of my head what book I scanned
these from,
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 8:38 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Books with these images in them.
WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and
white)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/english.jpg
A Fete at Bermondsey
Quoting WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My goodness - this helps a lot! Thank you! I am contacting the Bridgeman
Art Library who has them in High resolution...who knows what they will cost.
Thank you so much for sharing...
Oh, yeah -- let us know what you find out!
susan
-
Susan Farmer
Quoting WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
My goodness - this helps a lot! Thank you! I am contacting the Bridgeman
Art Library who has them in High resolution...who knows what they will cost.
Thank you so much for sharing...
Sure thing. I view it sorts of like my collection of Genealogy
At 07:19 PM 3/29/2007, you wrote:
Anyone know what books have good reproductions of the following images:
Holbein's English Burgher's wife (In color - I have it in black and white)
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/english.jpg
I don't think that this was ever done in color. It's a sketch.
The first I've only found in color here:
Tate Britain's Holbein in England exhibit, A Young Englishwoman
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/holbein/rooms/room6.htm
There is a book that goes with the exhibit
Holbein in England (Paperback)
by Susan Foister (Author)
ISBN-10:
Kimiko Small wrote:
The first I've only found in color here:
Tate Britain's Holbein in England exhibit, A Young Englishwoman
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/holbein/rooms/room6.htm
There is a book that goes with the exhibit
Holbein in England (Paperback)
by Susan Foister
Fred Struthers of R. L. Shep gets in a lot of foreign publications and
is usually interested in hearing about new ones of interest to
costumers. In other words, if he thinks some other customers will want
it, in addition to you, he may well stock it. Fred's email address is
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I could perhaps try to find the ISBN number for you, i could search for it
in an online library.
Bjarne
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From: Beth and Bob Matney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: h-costume@mail.indra.com
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 8:59 PM
Subject: [h-cost] books
One that I'm
Thanks Fran. I'll give them a try.
Beth
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:10:00 -0800
Fred Struthers of R. L. Shep gets in a lot of foreign publications and
is usually interested in hearing about new ones of interest to
costumers. In other words, if he thinks some other customers will want
it, in
Thanks, Bjarne. I would really appreciate any information that you could
find on this book! As the book is not out yet, I tried to find a
forthcoming publications for Univ. of Oslo, but was not successful.
Beth
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:29:22 +0100
From: Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL
At 05:05 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote:
I have been cataloging my reference collection on librarything.
snip
Anyone else doing this?
Hi Beth,
I've been slowly cataloging my books on a software called Book Collector.
http://www.collectorz.com/book/
I have found the program to be very helpful, very
Yeh, I promised myself for years too, then a friend told me about
librarything. So I'm slowly going through my library and writing the ISBN
numbers on a pad for 20 -30 books at a time, shelf by shelf. With all the
resources that Librarything can access, it's really not too bad. The books
I posted the site long time ago but still have most of my books in storage.
Need a lifetime membership too! I would love to get more info on books that
should be in my library. I bought 30 weaving books for different looms and
styles so I think I have enough. I need to go thru my books and
be organized (yeah, right).
Thanks for the info!!
Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender
--- Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 13:46:44 +
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [h-cost] books
At 13:33 25/02/2006, you
It comes in handy if you want to share your books with a friend they can just
browse through them on this site. Might help me remember which books I have
loaned out too. I also have to start worrying about extra insurance for my
books. I should start looking up the current prices on some of
At 15:36 25/02/2006, you wrote:
I do it for three reasons:
1) I've got so many (thousands), that I found I was getting some
duplicates by accident.
2) I need an inventory for insurance purposes.
3) to find others with similar interests.
I have thousands of books too, at least 400 of which
I've only been on it 2 or 3 days and have filled my limit of 200 books. So
if someone has say 8,000 books (as some people up there do!!) I'd hate to
try and keep track of them in a notebook. I want to know where they are I
want to know what I have. I'm hoping they add a lent feature and that
sort
Sounds like an interesting program as I hate buying the same book twice. Hard
to do? not really as often an author will put out a book under a different name
with other publishers.
Edith
Brin Kendall
Kimiko Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 05:05 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote:
I have
I'd recommend some sort of list, even if not strictly a catalogue.
A while back we had some pipes leak and the ceiling come down - right on top
of one of NIge's most expesive shelves of books.
Fortunately, the insurers paid out when we sent them three independant quotes
that more or les
I have thousands of books too, at least 400 of which are costume related.
I also have thousands, and over 1,000 costume related.
I don't need an insurance inventory, fortunately!
Well, everybody might need to claim insurance some day. My in-laws'
house burned down in the firestorm in
At Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:57:19 Lavolta Press [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Librarything system is easy, because you can just click on something
to add it. However, I don't want any of my data stored on someone
else's machine, and therefore be dependent on their backup system, site
availability,
At 05:46 AM 2/25/2006, you wrote:
Could someone please explain the point of listing one's books? I'm afraid
I don't see the point. Mine are all on shelves in my workroom. I know what
they are, and where they are. Why would I need to list them? (More time I
haven't got anyway!)
suzi
For
You can make your lists private so that no one else can read them. And while
Steele may be on the best sellers list its Sci-fi that is what people read
for the most part. I'm sure I'll hear howls over that. But there was an
article not long ago about sc-fi held the top rank closely followed by
On Feb 25, 2006, at 5:46 AM, Suzi Clarke wrote:
At 13:33 25/02/2006, you wrote:
Yeh, I promised myself for years too, then a friend told me about
librarything. So I'm slowly going through my library and writing
the ISBN numbers on a pad for 20 -30 books at a time, shelf by
shelf. With
At 8:27 PM -0500 2/24/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
On Friday 24 February 2006 8:05 pm, Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
I have been cataloging my reference collection on librarything.
Using what for time? When I retire, maybe.
I'm also a LibraryThing fan, though I did maybe two batches
Since I hate having to look up and type ALL the information about a
book every @#$%! time I cite it, this site is _wonderful_.
--
OChris Laning [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Davis, California
AHH, correct usage- a sight for sore eyes!!
Why is there such a heavy preponderance of fantasy titles among the most
owned? I know Harry Potter is popular, but what about bestselling authors
like Danielle Steele? Do you know if the site designer first announced
the site on fantasy lists and thus gained an early preponderance of
On Friday 24 February 2006 8:05 pm, Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
I have been cataloging my reference collection on librarything.
[snipping URLs]
I only have a little over 400 books listed so far... still lots to go.
Anyone else doing this?
Using what for time? When I retire, maybe.
Ooooh, I
At 05:05 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote:
I have been cataloging my reference collection on librarything.
You can see the Costume books (103 titles) at:
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?tag=costumeview=Castlegrounds
Textiles (113 titles) at:
I have a librarything account (Jaie) I've only so far gotten my paperbacks
up there but so far so good. I'm going to get a paid account here pretty
soon.
Bice
On 2/24/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 24 February 2006 8:05 pm, Beth and Bob Matney wrote:
I have
- Original Message -
From: michael tartaglio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. Pg 228 of Geoff Egan and Hazel Forsyth's article Wound Wire and
Silver Gilt in Oxbow Monograph #98 shows the wire from the headdress
that I believe you are talking about. The full title of the book is The
Age of
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, E House wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190199239X/104-1649257-0753564?v=glancen=283155s=booksv=glance
or
http://snipurl.com/kav3
Can anyone compare the two, taking into account that the latter from amazon
is 1/3 the price of the former?
Amazon is wrong --
- Original Message -
From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Amazon is wrong -- the newer one has yet to be released. My contact at the
publisher told me today that with luck we may yet see it before the end of
the year. See another description here:
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