My question is that one of the sites given for this dress states that when they restrung the dress they did not use all of the bead. Something like 1/4 (sorry pulling from memory) of the beads were not restrung on the dress so what we are seeing, is it more that they have restrung to match the statues and paintings or is the dress really that way? De
-----Original Message----- 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
