Re: [h-cost] Re: French Hood cute portrait repros
At 03:40 15/11/2006, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: museum. There seems to be a French Hood frame there too, but it's like no French Hood shape I've ever seen. There are two MoL wire frames possibly from French hoods that are pictured in The Age of Transition: The Archaeology of English Culture 1400-1600. They're very similar. Is this what you're referring to? Each of them has a little ball on both ends of the curve and a spot at each side about temple level where the wire makes a small loop before continuing on the rest of the curve. My theory for this is that the little loops in the wire are anchor points for firmly attaching the wire to the foundation of the crescent. When I used it this way in my hood, it worked very well. Melanie I don't know the book to which you refer, but your description sounds about right. Good to know it worked for you. Suzi ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: French Hood (was Tudor Tailor review)
At 03:44 15/11/2006, you wrote: Suzi Clarke wrote: Gable headdresses seem to have been made on a metal wire frame. The one I made for the Museum of London was based on a copy of the frame in the museum. ... If you want to see it, go here. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y260/Sistersuzi/Vermeer1.jpg Very pretty! Do the falls in back extend from the two bottom sides of the square in back as they do in the Holbein drawing? They look like they're hanging a little straighter than that. What did you use for stiffening besides the wire frame? There was the wire frame at the front, then a square frame for the back, set diagonally. The two were joined/covered with some stiff Vilene and Pelmform (a stiff stuff you use for curtain pelmets). This began to crumple while I was working on it, so I reinforced it with very short lengths of steel boning from my corset stash. I think buckram would probably have been the best answer, but I find that very hard to handle these days. Suzi ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] iron corset
There's a line in Eleanora di Firenza's accounts that shows she ordered two. One is in either the Bargello or the Palazzo Vecchio collection in Florence. I saw it last summer. The docent there claimed the steel corset was ordered as an orthotic, rather like a backbrace. http://www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=corset For more information regarding orthopaedic use. This is from the first chapter of Corset by Valerie Steele. A most useful little page. Another is in the Italian Rennaissance exhibit at the VA London. This one I saw 2 weeks ago, tho I dont recall the owning organization. Both of these corsets are steel. The catalog for At Home in the Italian Rennaissance states the corset is from the Museo Stibbert collection, provenance unknown. The catalog says this corset is for a 65cm bust. http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1487_renaissance/rituals.html This is one of the few that really does look to be an original as the shape is right. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] costuming website
The text in the pdf files are in Czech, but there are some paintings I've never seen before. And they have pictures of extant garments, too! http://www.kostym.cz/ Just click on the British flag for English. Vive omniem diem sit ultimus, ut qui numquam scis ubi ultimus. Outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] hair taping
Sorry getting in the middle of the topic. Have you tried braiding your hair when wet or with a little gel or mousse? Usually it isn't thick hair that is the problem but how smooth/slick the strands are. De -Original Message- Hi Elizabeth, Yes, I've tried the hair taping (as seen in the second link you gave), and it will only stay on my head if I then wrap the hair in a kertch. It won't stay up on its own, and it wouldn't stay stable for a base for the French hood. Also, it falls apart in the kertch that I wore, and only the wrapping of the fabric around my head kept it from coming down. Maybe it is because I am doing my own hair, it is very thick, and I really don't do much practice in hair braiding in general. I am not sure what else to try, so I gladly will accept suggestions. Kimiko - Maybe it has to do with what you're using for the hair taping. Usually we use single faced satin ribbon. Comes out in a day. At one fair we were out of ribbon and so used the lucet braid I had on hand made out of cotton rug warp. That hair taping stayed in for 3 days! I slept with a silk scarf over it. It would have stayed UP longer, but there were too many fuzzies escaping. I wonder if using cotton twill tape instead of satin ribbon would work better. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] hair taping
I do hair taping just as a modern type hair do, and have found that I either need to do it when it's wet, or when I've got a bunch of small-ish claw clips to anchor the hair as I tape it. It's gotten easier and easier as my hair has grown - a twist of hair reaches from behind one ear over to the next, and the gravity of the strand helps keep it in place. Quia Christus perpetuo regnat, Elisabeth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Julie Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 4:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] hair taping Sorry getting in the middle of the topic. Have you tried braiding your hair when wet or with a little gel or mousse? Usually it isn't thick hair that is the problem but how smooth/slick the strands are. De -Original Message- Hi Elizabeth, Yes, I've tried the hair taping (as seen in the second link you gave), and it will only stay on my head if I then wrap the hair in a kertch. It won't stay up on its own, and it wouldn't stay stable for a base for the French hood. Also, it falls apart in the kertch that I wore, and only the wrapping of the fabric around my head kept it from coming down. Maybe it is because I am doing my own hair, it is very thick, and I really don't do much practice in hair braiding in general. I am not sure what else to try, so I gladly will accept suggestions. Kimiko - Maybe it has to do with what you're using for the hair taping. Usually we use single faced satin ribbon. Comes out in a day. At one fair we were out of ribbon and so used the lucet braid I had on hand made out of cotton rug warp. That hair taping stayed in for 3 days! I slept with a silk scarf over it. It would have stayed UP longer, but there were too many fuzzies escaping. I wonder if using cotton twill tape instead of satin ribbon would work better. Julie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/534 - Release Date: 11/14/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.5/534 - Release Date: 11/14/2006 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] costuming website
Yeah, I was very surprised when I saw this website for the first time, it's really good and it seems to deal with authenticity. Many very useful pictures, really - and links too. And many others... That's not very usual here...I think the author of this webpage used to have another site which is not working now, but I'm not sure...Her profile is under Tailors - Catany. Ailith Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The text in the pdf files are in Czech, but there are some paintings I've never seen before. And they have pictures of extant garments, too! http://www.kostym.cz/ Just click on the British flag for English. Vive omniem diem sit ultimus, ut qui numquam scis ubi ultimus. Outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume - Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $310,000 Mortgage for $999/mo - Calculate new house payment ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
