Robin, thank you for sending us that link. It's only fabulous!
Warning in case someone is thinking of making that dress, even for a doll: I do some net beading - my sister calls it the insane beading - and the way that net dress was reproduced promises that it would never survive a day of wear (not that they reproduced it for wear). The threads would have to be woven through the beads several times each for stability, especially since many of the beads used by the Egyptians are faence and are very sharp-edged and would cut through the threads. These beautiful dresses would be very time-consuming to produce and therefore probably owned only by the rich who could afford to have someone make them. in the case of musicians or dancers who might wear them, they would probably have been owned by the troupe or the owner of the troupe, like any other stage property. I "discovered" Ancient Egypt when I was about 9; it was my first historical focus and I still have a passion for it. That doesn't mean that I am the be-all in Egyptian knowledge by any means, but I know a bunch of random stuff about the Egyptians. And some things about off-loom beading. LynnD On 1/4/07, Catherine Olanich Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 04 January 2007 2:59 am, Robin Netherton wrote: > A little prowling online turned up a teaching package from the Petrie > museum that includes a photo and description of the bead-net dress (among > many other items) and detailed directions for making one. I'm sure that > the directions are modernized, but they're complex enough they clearly > aren't meant to be Halloween-costume level. > > http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/Textiles%20in%20the%20Petrie%20Museum.doc Neat! Thank you. (One more project for the "future projects" pile.) :-) -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost
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