On Thursday 19 August 2010 1:46:44 pm Rickard, Patty wrote: > Comments? > Thanks, > Ceit > > To: Marche of Alderford > Subject: [Alderfolk] Fashion Crisis! > > OK my SCAdian family...I have a book by Tom Tierney on Celtic Fashions. > What I would like to know is how reputable is this source? What I am > looking for is Irish Celt in the 6th Century. I really like the style on > the cover but the illustration states "Frankish Celts, ca 450 B.C." > PeaceDub Essa/Cliodhna
I wouldn't trust Tierney as far as I could throw him. His books never cite the sources of the illustrations he redraws (assuming he has redrawn in all cases instead of making something up based upon a written description, which I wouldn't bet against). He did a book on later medieval fashion where he misintreprets the long bead string worn by a woman in the Tres Riches Heures as a transparent fabric with a beaded edge. -- Cathy Raymond <[email protected]> "No one can make as disastrous a bad choice as a smart person, because they sell it to themselves really well."--Tobias Buckell _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
