If you have a wool hat, it's incredibly easy to steam it to the shape you
want! You need to find something that will be a good shape for a block,
like a flower pot. Make sure it's a good size to match your head size.
Remove all the addition hat stuff from inside the felt, like the hat band
I would lean toward mending and leave patches for tears. If you are
'respectable', I think you would not advertise that you are also dirt poor.
Somehow, I think illustrators of children's books have contributed to our
concepts of how people of the past dealt with worn clothing. I find mending
to
At 04:27 AM 2/6/2006, you wrote:
Hello,
I would be very gratefull for advice as to how to sort out my 1670
midwives clothing which I've just retrieved from storage to discover
a fair bit of moth damage. The whole set, boddice, and two pleated
skirts all wool lined with linen ,the design based
Hi again,
This is just a question i have for some of the members who makes or study
18th century embroideries.
I have noticed that most of the french habits, are embroidered with 2 kinds
of silk thread. The monofillament silk (reeled untwisted silk) for the
motifs, and then that the stripes wich
Hi,
Sorry about this but i wondered if any europeans have ordered from him, Jas
Townsend. How fast does he ship to Europe.
Do you think i could order some stockings and have them here in cirka 14
days?
Bjarne
Leif og Bjarne Drews
www.my-drewscostumes.dk
Hi, Bjarne. I'm not in Europe, but I've ordered from Jas Townsend in the past,
particularly stockings and hat blanks. I ordered by telephone and found the
company very helpful and accommodating. I also had a short deadline for the
stockings etc., and they made my deadline easily. You'd probably
I don't know how fast he can get things to Europe, but I have dealt with
them by US mail and in person for many years. They carry good quality
products and the management is extremely involved. I know they will make
every effort to get your order to you as quickly as possible.
Karen
Seamstrix
Hi Ruth and Anne,
Thanks. Well yes, they promise to send quicly, ill pay 12 dollars for the
posting, and then i could get it soon.
I needed stockings, and i found some other goodies two.
Thanks, and forgive me that i used the bandwidth for this.
Bjarne
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From:
At 15:44 06/02/2006, you wrote:
Hi again,
This is just a question i have for some of the members who makes or study
18th century embroideries.
I have noticed that most of the french habits, are embroidered with 2 kinds
of silk thread. The monofillament silk (reeled untwisted silk) for the
The Riversdale House Museum, 4811 Riverdale Road in Riverdale Park,
Maryland, announces a lecture, March 7, at 7:30, with light refreshments
served at
6:30. Cost is $5.
The How and Why of Accurate Cut and Fit of 19th Century Men's and Women's
Clothing
Saundra Altman, creator of
Bjarne, could you put a cockade over the ends of your bobbin lace?
http://www.jastown.com/hats/th-905a.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockade
Tea Rose
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:49:20 +0100
From: Bjarne og Leif
Cynthia V other h-costumers:
Thought you might enjoy this pic forwarded to me from a friend. It's
very much like the Fram Air Filter hat seen in a Rogier van der
Weyden's Madelena seen here:
http://pintoresfamosos.juegofanatico.cl/images/van_der_weyden/magdalena.jpg
Like the original sender, If
Am in Europe (UK) and we've used them before - not for a few years, and we
weren't in any hige hurry at the time, but they were very helpful (my boyfriend
ordered by phone).
This may be too late, but I'd suggest phoning them to make sure they know
you're in a hurry, and that way, they can
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