----- Original Message ----- From: "Kimiko Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:29 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] elizabethan dress trim question
> At 07:14 AM 7/14/2005, you wrote: > > And where on earth would one find the jewellery? > > > There is a company in England that makes pewter replicas of Tudor jewelry > (and other jewelry things, spoons, collars, etc.), and he notes that he > makes custom pieces as well. > http://www.tudorjewels.com/ (for the historical images) > http://www.pewterreplicas.com/ (to order the same) > > While it may not be exactly what you are looking for, some of the patterns > appear similar, or he could make them for you. > > I have not ordered from him yet, but plan on doing so later this year when > I have some more money. > > Kimiko > I agree that Steve Millingham's work is really fabulous but if your budget doesn't stretch that far look at http://www.sapphireandsage.com/index.html especially the portrait reproduction section, whilst these are not exact replicas (as she doesn't make her own settings) they do a very good job of imitating the style fairly closely (I'm lusting after the reproduction of Princess Mary Tudor's necklaces) the "Queen Elizabeth I" Cluster Necklace (under portrait reproductions) is fairly similar to this portrait http://www.photo.rmn.fr/c/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=2&FP=3825164&E=22S39UNTBJPH&SID=22S39UNTBJPH&New=T&Pic=2&SubE=2C6NU0XQAIT8 (or the short version http://snipurl.com/gagx) which is Spanish from the same era (I found it via Michaela's page) but if you're doing a large ruff a collar close to the neck may not show up very well. Alternately, some of the other examples show just a long strand of pearls (I use one short & one long strand of fake pearls with a pendant tied onto the shorter one) HTH Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
