Bjarne, that would be *wonderful!* Thank you very much for the offer! I absolutely adore 18th century Danish white embroidery.... *sighs happily* --Sue
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bjarne og Leif Drews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 28, 2006 12:06 PM Subject: [h-cost] embroidered linen stomacher > I have an original embroidery pattern for a ladys stomacher made with the > whitework tecknique. Also a ladys cape. > The patterns comes from a collection at Nordiska Museum in Stockholm, where > they belonged to a lady called Beata Jacquette Ribbing. She lived in the > first half of the 18th century, so my guess would be these patterns being > made between 1730- 50. > I have made a high resolution scanning of the patterns, and i could blow > them up to normal size without problems. They are insane beautifull, and > especially the stomacher it is possible to rekonstrukt. The pattern of the > cape needs to be rekonstrukted in some of the areas, but with patience and > skill its possible. > If anyone is interrested, i would not mind to post it to my website, so that > you could copy it. > > Bjarne _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
