I tried it and got nowhere. The search engine doesn't seem to recognize terms in English - you know, really esoteric and unusual ones like knit, embroidery, weave... Julie
No, as far as I can tell it just helps you navigate to the right part of the site and then you still need to know the corrent spelling for cities, ie Nürnberg rather than Nurenberg. It also helps you know what button at the top of the image to click to make it larger if you don't know enough German. I spotted the flag a while back but have gotten used to (especially) German museum sites having a very brief English section*. I didn't really bother to use it as I figured the mueum sections would not be translated and those are what I use more than anything else. There are guides online for what search term to look for. But I'm not sure I've seen on that explains what the terms mean: http://www.larsdatter.com/bildnav.htm This is a guide to what the main museums offer, I have on occasion translated some sections in my journal. http://paternosters.blogspot.com/2005/03/bildindexde.html Helpful as well. Some of the terms used are fairly easy to interpret; textil=textiles some not so email=enamel, elfbein= ivory I think. The simplest way to search for costume of a particular time is to go to the Expert Search, plug in dates to the obvious fields then in the Gestamindex box type in mann or frau to find images that include men or women. You can also sort by region, but if you keep your date fields to a few decades you can usually have enough to choose from without having to go through thousands of images. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com *Which I perfectly understand and I would expect from a place where English is not the main language! _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
