Hi Michaela
I have the pattern cut for this mantua also if you are interrested. From the
small catalogue womens fashion from 1600 1750. I baught this many years ago
on Victoria & Albert, my very first visit to London.
Let me know if i can help you with this.
Bjarne
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From: "michaela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] source for 1700-1710 Mantua
The English mantua you refer to is in a book
called "18th Century Women's Costume at Blaise
Castle House" by Helen Burnett and Cleo Witt.
Printed by Bristol City Museum. However, the
mantua is dated c.1738-41. It still has its matching petticoat.
I just found my livejournal with my list of extant early mantua (as
opposed
to the very stylised later mantua) and found the book I had seen it in:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pinkdiamond/334570.html
Title: Women's costumes 1600-1750, [by] Zillah Halls.
Published: London, H.M.S.O., 1969.
Other Author(s): Halls, Zillah.
I didn't manage to snaffle the date of the mantua but I can read the date
of
the stomacher as being 1720-30. The petticoat looks to be a quilted tube
basically.
The text I can make out says:
"... open robe worn over a separate corset and separate skirt was
established. The elaborately-arranged skirt, pinned or buttoned back, is
occasionally though not frequently found throughout the first half of the
18th century; there are four examples in the London Museum."
(view of the back of the mantua and petticoat)
"13 stomacher 1720-30, (no.[??])
The stomacher was a separate triangular piece, usually embroidered, which
filled the space in the front of the bodice."
(view of the front of the Mantua, pettcoat and stomacher.
I adore this example. It's so very simple but effective. The stomacher has
a
fine pattern embroidered with horizontal lines.
Unfortunately the image on the Sally Queen and Associates page has gone, I
think it is in the 2000 calendar. I'm going to email to ask if this is so.
I
seem to recall it being in the colletcion of the Royal Ontaria Museum, but
there is no info on their site.
regards,
michaela de bruce
http://costumes.glittersweet.com
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