Not "Celtic knotwork", I'd say instead "Italian strapwork" (but whether or not it was period, I've no idea.) Was this for the Palio horserace, maybe?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] "Mostra dei Costumi delle Armi e Degli Ornamenti del Palio" Does anyone have any information, background or technical, on this 1993 exhibit of costume held in Legnano, Italy? Looking at the pictures, I can not think that they were trying to recreate extant or known-from-MSS garb as the sources for the designs are taken from a variety of Byzantine, Anglo-Saxon, southern Italian (and did I actually see some Celtic knotwork?!) sources placed on a ground of basic Norman garb. I am knee-deep in research on this time and place, and nothing, except Roger's mantle, of course, leaps out and says "I'm attempting to be the real thing." _Odisseus / Ulysses Gallery_ (http://ranaan.altervista.org/html/SCA-Gallery.htm) (The pictures on this page are taken, without attribution, from the exhibition catalogue.) I would very much like to know the purpose behind this exhibition as the question comes up frequently enough about the use of these costumes as documentation. Nancy Nancy Spies Arelate Studio _www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html_ (http://www.weavershand.com/ArelateStudio.html) Ingvild Josefsdatter, OL Kingdom of Atlantia "If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people -- their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties -- someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal'." John F. Kennedy, 14 September 1960 **************Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
