There is one at the MFA in Boston, it was conserved several years ago,
when I worked there or just before. I might have a picture somewhere
in an old bulletin. It was beautiful beads in blues mostly as I
recall.
Katy
On 1/3/07, Sylvia Rognstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When did this evidence about Egyptian beaded net dresses surface? I
never heard of it before nor is it in my old costume history books.
It's been decades since I studied the history of costume, but since I'm
going to be teaching it this January I'd really like to keep up on
recent developments.
Sylrog
On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:34 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
>
> From the description, it sounds like it might have been inspired by a
> surviving Egyptian "bead net" dress -- a very open network made of
> threaded beads. The one I'm thinking of is basically a tubular sheath
> with shoulder straps and at the bottom hem it has a "fringe" of
> dangling flower-shaped beads. _Might_ -- I'd have to see the original
> to know if the suspicion holds up. There's a rather dark photograph
> of the item I'm thinking of about halfway down the page at:
>
> http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/sexuality.html
>
> Heather
>
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