I also got PoF4, also three others (one of them has yet to be
delivered - but I got a printout of the B&N listing):
Gothic: Dark Glamour by Valerie Steele, et. al. from an
FIT museum exhibit, with lots of background text.
Brilliance! Masterpieces from the American Jewelry Design
Council, by Cindy Edelstein and Frank Stankus - It's an album of
pieces from each year's Design Project, where they ask jewelry
designers to design a piece around a given theme. Lots of really
avant-garde stuff. (I asked for this one as I have done a bit of
jewelry making and would like to do more - maybe when I retire...)
Corsets: Historical Patterns and Techniques, by Jill
Salen (I first heard about this on this list, and it sounded cool,
as I need to make a few more of these in the upcoming months...)
It was a bookish Christmas - I also got 4 fiction titles on my
list. One more costume-ish thing - a round box made with a wire
frame covered with pale blue crystal organza and a bow - styled like
a hatbox but somewhat smaller. Don't know yet what I'll use it for -
the person who gave it to me said it reminded her of my costumes...
Sandy
P.S. - Fran, the pendant sounds lovely!!
At 01:51 PM 12/27/2008, you wrote:
What did everyone get?
In my case not a whole lot. I asked my husband for several costume
books, but when he gets off schedule he does this distributed
Christmas thing, where stuff arrives any time before February. He
did give me a copy of Cally Oldershaw's _Gems of the World_ (a
reasonably substantive guide for the amateur), and a 135-carat
madeira citrine pendant in a plain silver setting.
Fran
Lavolta Press
New book on 1820s clothing!
http://www.lavoltapress.com
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