> The notes in secondary sources should send you to the primary sources, many > of which you may have access to--see below.
This is probably the first best way to start out:) I also recommend finding out what Inter-library Loan (ILL) scheme your local library has. Some books you request will not be allowed out of another collection but you may just get lucky. Also google books is a marvelous place for finding transcriptions of historic texts, I just recently (re)found a few myself: http://pinkdiamond.livejournal.com/870338.html Basically I did a search for a fabric term that I knew was in use in the time I was most interested in (sadly my German specific terms don't turn up much of anything). And using other spelling variants turns up even more books:) Project Guttenburg also turns up some interesting works and there are all manner of catalogues online for similar types of searches which you can then take to your library's ILL librarian:) Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
