Those are from Vecellio's Costume Book. A reprint is generally available from 
Dover. He's better at the Italian stuff since he actually saw that and wasn't 
just getting second hand reports on it. It also has his idea of clothing from 
China and the Americas as well as most of Europe.
 
Karen
Seamstrix


-- "Susan B. Farmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Dawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Dawn wrote:
>
>> But it looks like 16th century Norse (?) drawings of clothing.   
>> Check out the pics near the end of women with pipes in their mouths  
>>  and spinning in hand. At least, I think it's a pipe, it's a stick   
>> with fire coming out of it.
>
> Let me try that again. It mangled the link.
>
> http://www.nb.no/nbvev/eksternvev/html/italienske_tresnitt.html
>

*NEAT*  Those are just too cool.

susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/

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