A friend points me to this page:
http://www.gallimauphry.com/PD/gateway3.html
The Italian Renaissance ones aren't bad -- mostly based on paintings I can
recognize. The Gawain set is straight out of Norris, oh well, but still
pretty. The Plantagenets marginally better. Much more here, most of it
I have a question about storage. I do not store my historic clothing on
hangers mostly, I fold or roll up and put into cloth bags that i make
for each outfit (the bag has a listing of each part of the outfit and
what needs to brought along that is not in the bag), then I put the bags
into
At 07:35 AM 8/19/2005, you wrote:
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A question - should linen rip in the same way that you can rip
cotton from selvedge to selvedge/along the grain? If it should, does
the fact that some linen doesn't indicate that it isn't qood quality linen?
Yours in curiousity,
Joannah in Brisbane,
Mia, are you sure it is linen and not a linen/rayon blend or a
linen/cotton blend?
mary jo's is *EVIL* :)
-Irmgart (in Durham, NC)
On 8/19/05, Mia Dappert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. the very last batch I got (at Mary JOs fabric wonderland near Charlotte,
NC) behaved strangely. It looks
And she wasn't producing male heirs one after the other. Not her
fault, but the French just couldn't understand a King that was faithful
to his wife as Louis XVI. And a king that wasn't that interested in sex
was something nearly impossible at the time, especially to the French,
who were very used
I am in the middle of reading Lady Fraser's Marie Antoinette -The
Journey published in 2001 ISBN 0-385-48948-X. Among other things she
shoots out of the water that whole things about Louis having that
surgery he supposedley had. It was propganda that had been circulated
to suggest he wasn't much
We will probably never know for certain what was propaganda and what was
fact in the whole Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette relationship. Anyway, a
French King(or indeed very few European male rulers, period)wasn't
faithful to poor Queen Consort as a rule.
Marie Antoinette had a lot of strikes
