Re: [h-cost] Handkerchief Linen

Hi Wendi, I dont know what you mean with Pros and Cons is, but i have imported the most expensive and lovely handkerchief linen from Rotterdam. I made my 18th century gentlemans shirt of it, and it is very very lovely to work with, irons well, washes well, and alas very very expensive. Also my

Re: [h-cost] Pros and cons, was Handkerchief Linen

Advantages and disadvantages (from the Latin pro (for) and contra (against). Kate Bunting Librarian and 17th century reenactor [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/08/2005 14:53 Let me know what this pros and cons are. Bjarne ___ h-costume mailing list

[h-cost] Re: Handkerchief Linen

I used it for a couple of 16th C shirts, machine sewed one, hand sewed the other. It was a dream to handsew as fingerpressing took quite easily. It doesn't wear as well as the heavier linens but both of the guys I made these for say it is very cool and comfortable to wear. I was using the

Re: [h-cost] 1540s French Hood Images

I think that it's a trick of perspective that makes people think that French Hoods stand up away from the head. I have made two French Hoods that actually lay down almost flat against my skull but that look tilted when I wear them. People don't realize that the skull actually slopes up from

[h-cost] Very Cool Links

I don't know if these links have ever been posted before, but I was browsing around the internet and found some great links that I just had to pass along! Nineteenth Century Fashions http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/19cdress/index.htm Lafayette Negative Archive

[h-cost] Need someone to make belt

Does anyone know where in the San Francisco area I can get a belt made to go with a vintage buckle? I have a big, heavy 20th-century enameled buckle (probably brass) with a very simple but unusual closure. It's Art Nouveau style but made in the later 20th century, probably an Oriental

[h-cost] New (to me) book

Hello everyone. I just picked up a new (to me) book at the library, and I thought others might be intrested in it as it seems to have a bunch of pictures and details of the pics. Private Lives in Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown

[h-cost] Moda a Firenze and other costume sourcebooks

Among the treasures I brought back from Italy were scads of books. The new Uffizi Pitti Palace painting catalog. All the stuff. All color! The Galleria della Accademia (Florence) catalog. Home of Michaelangelo's David. The Galleria della Accademia (Venice) catalog. 14th thru 16th Venetian

Re: [h-cost] Moda a Firenze and other costume sourcebooks

and my favorite: Moda a Firenze: Lo stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza No, she didnt have the flu, but she did have money. I bought 3 copies if this one knowing my friends would scream dibbs. They did. It's basically QEWU for Eleanor Florence. Authors are on staff at the

RE: [h-cost] Universities with Costume Collections

I don't know of a directory, but I do know of some collections: Emily P. Reynolds Costume Collection North Dakota State University Fargo,ND http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/ercc/ The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Textiles, Clothing and Design Department Barbara Trout - Associate Professor, costume

Re: [h-cost] Universities with Costume Collections

Contact the textiles department at UT Austin. They have an extensive collection in their basement and in the libraries. Most of it is closed to the public because they are mainly used for Grad studies. I suspect that many larger universities also have such collections. All you need is one that

[h-cost] A Career Question

This may sound a bit bizarre, but I really don't know where else to ask this and stand the chance of getting an informed answer. Over the past years I've been thinking of how to incorporate my love of costuming into a career and possibly a degree. I'd really like to finish college, but in doing