On Friday 05 January 2007 12:51 pm, Lynn Downward wrote: > 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.
As for folk brave enough to try to make such a beaded dress, I have two words of advice--dental floss. Stronger than any other thread I know of (makers of belly dance garb sometimes suggest it for beading dance bras). > 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. That would be my guess, as well. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
