I keep getting "album not found" -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Data-Samtak Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 7:56 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: Current projects (was Re: [h-cost] hello out there??)
Beautiful ! Thanks for sharing. Susan "Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for". - "Ride the Dark Trail" by Louis L'Amour On May 22, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Kristin wrote: > Well, I haven't had a chance to upload recent pictures until this > evening, > but here's a link to the late 1700's outfit I've been working on since > the > fall: > > http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q<http: > //www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=jq8t100.nqqmx58&x=0&y=-tik0q> > > I'm procrastinating on the quilted petticoat again, by making a pair > of stays. I guess I'll be finished with the binding within the next week > and > will have to go back to quilting for a while. My next procrastination > project is to make pockets... and then maybe start making another > shift, but > of linen this time around... and then... > > I'm so very happy to see that I'm not the only one who works on > multiple > projects simultaneously. It used to drive my ex nuts... but I guess > he was > never around anyone else who had a creative streak in them! > > Kristin > > > > On 5/22/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:48 pm, Sue Clemenger wrote: >> > I think I'm right about where you are, garb-wise, Cathy. My >> "laundry >> list" >> > wasn't really an indication of my Extreme Expertise and Skills, but >> more >> > like the results of being consitutionally incapable of project >> monogamy. >> >> Same here, which was part of my point. However, you have attempted a >> wider variety of projects than I have (see below). >> >> > Deity help me, a couple of weeks ago, I was encountering my first >> power >> > tool (a drill press) in a friend's garage, learning to register >> soapstone >> > molds so I can carve the molds and make my own pewter buttons for >> fitted >> > gowns. >> >> Now anything that requires power tools is a bit farther than I've >> cared to >> go! >> I'm still waffling about using that sheet copper I bought to try to >> make a >> Viking style needlecase-and I can do that with only a dowel and a >> pair of >> pliers (and maybe crazy glue). >> >> >> > I'd love to hear more about you Lithuanian shawl! >> >> One of the things the lands along the Baltic seem to have in common >> (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, parts of Finland, even Novogorod) is >> that the >> rich tended to ornament their clothes by working bronze coils and >> rings >> into >> them. (Most of the 1st-10th c textile finds in those areas have >> survived >> because the bronze ornaments preserve a fair amount of the cloth. >> Since >> most >> of the ornamentation was at the edges, you get a good idea of the >> size of >> the >> ornamented items.) >> >> Based on where the metal ornaments were found, it appears that there >> was a >> standard shawl size (roughly 30 inches by 40 inches). The proper way >> to >> do >> the ornamentation would be to weave the shawl to order, and wrap >> strips of >> sheet bronze or bits of bronze wire around certain warp threads as I >> worked, >> but I'm not likely to learn how to weave anything bigger than a >> tablet-woven >> belt anytime soon. So what I'll probably do is kind of corkscrew >> pieces >> of >> copper wire into already woven wool (I have some nice wool melton cut >> and >> fringed for the purpose). Then, I will make smaller coils of copper >> wire, >> string them onto a cord, and couch them onto each short end. >> >> Raymond's Quiet Press started making the kind of stick pins that (it >> has >> been >> theorized) were used to fasten these shawls. There's a picture of the >> design >> here: >> >> http://www.quietpress.com/New2004.html >> >> (look under "new in October 2004"; it's the left-hand picture, the >> item on >> the >> far right). >> >> They were used in pairs, fastened together with bronze chains. The >> pins >> attached to them are huge--as big as knitting needles (the same is >> true of >> the actual survivals Raymond's model is based upon). >> >> Having finally bought myself a pair from Raymond as a birthday >> present, my >> theory is that the pins were never meant to go through anything other >> than >> the shawl. Once you fasten them to the shawl (I've already tried >> this) >> you >> can take the shawl off and on over your head (really, really >> carefully, >> to >> make sure you don't gouge out your eyes) as a unit, without risking >> damage >> to >> the rest of your body or clothes. >> >> I have already finished most of the rest of the costume the shawl is >> to be >> worn with. When I finally finish the shawl, I'll put a picture in the >> MedCos >> gallery and post the URL to it here. >> >> >> -- >> Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> "I'm starting to like the cut of this man's gibberish." --General >> Fillmore (from "The Tick," episode 2) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
