From: "Elizabeth Walpole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Cant exactly buy them 'round here, tho, can we? Guess most wil make >> do with reed, "woode and wyre". Now, Tokyo, whalebone's fair game. I >> can even recommend a shop. >Really? I was under the impression that baleen only came from the larger >whales, I thought Minky whales had proper teeth?
Japanese whalers fish in international waters and are not restricted to their own. Outside the 250mi territorial limits established by many treaties ships can fish, trawl, whale & launch satellites w/o govt foldeerol. My own "woode and wyre" comment was excessive paraphrasing intending to point to Elizabethan commentators like these: William Jones provided "xii Buskes of Whalebone and wyer covered with sarceonet quilted" . --Great Wardrobe Accounts, 1586, as cited in Janet Arnold, QEWU. "Fastidious men, as well as ladies, wore these 'whalebone bodyes for the better grace.'" --Channing M. Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (Oxford: Clarendon, 1936), p. 178. "English burgher women usually wear … Instead of whalebone, they wear a broad circular piece of wood over the breast to keep the body straighted and more erect. English women of the nobility dress very similarly to the French except for very long stomachers." --Thomas Platter, Travels in England, 1599. My point here was that the original poster who ask about reeds also had some other options. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
