Jeb is trying to get the URL from the original poster. I'll forward it as soon as he gets it. Other lists I'm on strip attachments, too. The description you gave (sideless, bare head/long hair) matches the picture he sent me. She is standing in front of the forge with tongs in the fire. Her gown and the skirt of the sideless are a rusty-red color, with the upper part of the sideless in ermine. Cuffs on her gown are dark (black?). Three men are in the foreground hammering on a piece on the anvil. Catherine In a message dated 6/18/2008 9:58:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't think the list allows images or attachments. Can you send us a URL? Like Mari, I have a suspicion. Several, in fact. There are some well-known illuminations of women working a forge, mostly images from moral tales of long-ago good women, or the blacksmith's wife who forged the nails for the crucifixion, or some such. None of them, to my knowledge, are meant to be seen as representing real women blacksmiths. The image of a woman at a forge I see reproduced most (e.g. in some of the Medieval Woman products) is from the allegorical romance Le Roman de la Rose. I'd have to look up the context of the image, but I can assure you the figure is not meant to be realistic. She has other symbolic elements to her dress, too, including a sideless surcote and a bare head with long flowing hair. --Robin **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
