> Tonight I went to a private viewing of the new Medieval Gallery at > the Museum of London (c400-1558.) For a wonder the cases are well > lit, and to an extent you can get to the sides, and sometimes round > the back. For the interest of this list there are tiny knitted > garments for children, knitted caps, a fragment of sleeve with > buttons, (in the Crowfoot/Staniland book), thimbles, pins, jewellery, > madder dyed textiles, a leather jerkin, belts, a garter of wool, > shoes, patterns, a cod piece and various other relevant things like > for weaving, about which I know nothing. The wire frame for the Gable > Headdress, which I copied for the Museum, was on display, and also a > frame for a French hood!!! The think I find most personal is a > beautiful fine hairnet, which I had the good fortune to handle many > years ago, and it was very evocative of a real person.
For us travel limited, do they have a place on line? My daughter was there many times when she spent 6 mo. last winter, but I'm disabled and have problems getting around. > Aspasia Moonwind _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
