Re: [h-cost] Re: A Few Thoughts about Crochet
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 12:54 pm, Carolyn Kayta Barrows wrote: I just wasn't interested in it (crochet) until I thought of it as a means to an end (the Mrs. Weasley cardigan). It still seems...limited. I agree. I've never been interested in it because (1) most of the things I've seen made in that technique look ugly to me, and (2) it's primarily a Victorian technique, and I'm not really that interested in Victorian costume. What about those elegant Edwardian Irish crochet dresses and waists? I did say most. Those are not among the exceptions that came to my mind, though. Some of the crocheted lace collars (of the type especially popular in the 1860s) made of fine thread are nice. I too remember the clunky crochet stuff produced in the 1960s (I kinda liked them even if you didn't), but modern crochet sweaters look as nice as knitted sweaters do. I don't care much even for the modern ones. Crochet is actually not as limited as some people think. I will agree it's not for everyone. But then, I only knit if I'm doing a period when crochet hadn't been invented yet. Fair enough. I admit I was trumpeting my own tastes here, and everyone's mileage varies when it comes to taste. :-) -- Cathy Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm starting to like the cut of this man's gibberish. --General Fillmore (from The Tick, episode 2) ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Victorian help?
I just purchased Fashions of the Guilded Age, Vol. 1 to do some Victorian-inspired fantasy clothing. It's a wonderful book with patterns and everything, but I'm bamboozled. I've done SCA-era clothing (Patterns? We don't need no steeenking patterns!) for years, but I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to interpreting these patterns. One obviously has to be conversant with Victorian tailoring for these drawings and directions to be meaningful. For instance, the directions will say, Cut a slit in the back along the solid line, and hem the edges narrow. Which solid line?; there are two. Then what?? Or, pleat the front and back as indicated on the pattern. The number of circles and x's don't necessarily match. And then there the inexplicable solid lines at odd angles, marked with circles and x's. What are they? Cut them open or not? If I cut it open, there's a flap of fabric dangling, and the directions give no clue as to where it goes. The topography makes no sense. Is there a guide to Victorian patterns for the modern sewer out there anywhere? Melanie Unruh-Bays ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] New Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo
I heard about this miniature on the BBC radio news this evening:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5037002.stm If you click to enlarge the image, you'll also see more of the painting. It's just been donated to the Berlin museum by a reporter who'd set out discover if -as it was - art looted during World War II. It goes on display tomorrow. If you'd like to hear the story told by the man himself, you should be able to find it on the BBC website's Listen Again facility, or maybe as a podcast download. It was the very last item, just before 6.00pm, on tonight's PM programme on Radio 4. Linda Walton, (High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K.). ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] New Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo
O, that's one of the very few dresses that's ever tempted me to try that era. Thanks for the link. -E House - Original Message - From: Linda Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5037002.stm ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] little off topic, Earl og Bothswell
Hi, This is a little off topic, but a little history after all. You know Mary Stuarts husband Earl of Bothswell was taken prisoner in Denmark, and died here, and is burried in a small church at the castle where he was prisoned. Now his scottish family wants him back to Scotland, they showed it in the news yesterday. But i dont think Denmark wants to release him, he is a little attraction to have at the castle wich is called Dragsholm. I dont know what to think, if his family wants him back, ill say yes off cause, but i am not to deside. Bjarne Leif og Bjarne Drews www.my-drewscostumes.dk http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
