Re: [h-cost] bezants

2006-06-24 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Betsy, Many thanks for your help. If this craftstore sends for Europe, i dont need your help. I will contact them and ask if they will ship for me in Denmark. I had no idea such things excisted. Thanks again Bjarne - Original Message - From: Betsy Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [h-cost] silver spangeled suit

2006-06-24 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Helen, Thanks for your words. At a small distance, it doesnt look bad, i think i will settle with this. Bjarne - Original Message - From: HELEN PINTO [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 9:08 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] silver

Re: [h-cost] silver spangeled suit

2006-06-24 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Sharon, You are such a darling. I never thoaght about that. I just did it -hammered a flower with the hammer, and it worked brilliantly. The flower got a little bigger, and spread out nicely. That was the best solution i could expect. Thanks a lot!! Bjarne - Original Message -

Re: [h-cost] Re: silver spangeled suit

2006-06-24 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Sandy, As Sharon suggested, i just did it, hammered the flower more flat. It spread out and got to the size i had dreamed about. Its even nicer this size i think. You guys are brilliant to work with! Many thanks Ill settle down with this solution, and also use the see trough thread you

RE: [h-cost] Link costume (sorta historical-ish)

2006-06-24 Thread Sharon at Collierfam.com
My son has the game and showed me a picture. He wears a simple hat, like a wizard hat without a brim. A white long sleeved shirt. White pants/leggings. A green tunic/doublet, very simple, collarless, but with a collar effect created by having the neckline of the doublet fall open in a V. It also

[h-cost] Leather punch for Bjarne

2006-06-24 Thread Tania Gruning
Bjarne, try and take a look at the leather store in Copenhagen, Læderhuset, it is in Skindergade You can also check it out on http://www.skindhuset.dk/ Tania - Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

Re: [h-cost] Leather punch for Bjarne

2006-06-24 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Tanya, Thanks for this. I will try to go and look in their store. They only have letters and numbers on the website. Bjarne - Original Message - From: Tania Gruning [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:01 AM Subject: [h-cost]

[h-cost] 50s and 60s fashions

2006-06-24 Thread Robin Netherton
A friend sent me this link: http://www.thevideobeat.com/link_clothing.htm And check out the links list at the bottom... --Robin ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] silver spangeled suit

2006-06-24 Thread Lalah
OK, kiddo - I am twenty years older than you and still keep coming up with new projects. Don't think you are old at 51. For goodness sake you are in the prime of your life. As for your worry about your stuff, it is probably why it is so fantastic when it is finished. You are a perfectionist

Re: [h-cost] help - velveteen colour running

2006-06-24 Thread Dawn
A J Garden wrote: I need to fix a red cloak that keeps rubbing off its colour all over the linen shirt. It has red velveteen inside and black velveteen outside and is finished, ready to wear. It was pre-washed before being made. Any help would be appreciated, Aylwen Wash it in Retayne

Re: [h-cost] Link costume (sorta historical-ish)

2006-06-24 Thread Susan Data-Samtak
Have you seen? The man who played Linc on The Mod Squad is now appearing on a current TV show. Susan Slow down. The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you miss all you are traveling for.  - Ride the Dark Trail by Louis L'Amour On Jun 24, 2006, at 7:08 AM,

Re: [h-cost] help - velveteen colour running

2006-06-24 Thread Beth Schoenberg
Hi, Aylwen, Have you tried Runaway? I believe Woolworth's and Coles sells it, and possibly also Kmart. It worked when we had a red-running problem on the huge baronial banner for Politarchopolis, which I believe you may have seen once or twice. Beth On 24/06/2006, at 1:43 PM, A J

[h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-24 Thread otsisto
Someone told me that sideless surcoats were only worn by royalty, yet I found a picture for a French manuscript by Guilaume de Machault that shows a lady in waiting in what appears to be a brocade sidless. So is the Royal only w/sideless a myth or De

Re: [h-cost] Robin ? sideless surcoats

2006-06-24 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, otsisto wrote: Someone told me that sideless surcoats were only worn by royalty, yet I found a picture for a French manuscript by Guilaume de Machault that shows a lady in waiting in what appears to be a brocade sidless. So is the Royal only w/sideless a myth or

Re: [h-cost] help - velveteen colour running

2006-06-24 Thread Joan Jurancich
At 08:43 PM 6/23/2006, you wrote: I need to fix a red cloak that keeps rubbing off its colour all over the linen shirt. It has red velveteen inside and black velveteen outside and is finished, ready to wear. It was pre-washed before being made. Any help would be appreciated, Aylwen