RE: [h-cost] 15rh century embroidery site

2006-10-01 Thread otsisto
Which ones are your artwork? De -Original Message- http://medieval.webcon.net.au/period_15th_c.html It's a very nice extensive site ... a pity the site owner is still using some of my original art on it without attribution or permission after I directly asked for it to be removed.

RE: [h-cost] OT....another Christmas Carol

2006-10-01 Thread Sharon at Collierfam.com
I would love to have copies if you still have them. Dickens Fair is coming fast. Sharon C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruth Anne Baumgartner Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 12:10 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost]

Re: [h-cost] OT....another Christmas Carol

2006-10-01 Thread Linda Walton
Yes please ! Linda Walton, (in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where I'm already desperate for something new to do at Christmas.) Ruth Anne Baumgartner wrote: (snip)I'd be happy to share my script and song list with anyone wanting to recreate a Victorian parlour and present these

[h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi, Some years back, we had this topic up about wheather wheel farthingales was worn, or if they only used huge bumrolls. The reason why i fell apun this quote, is, that i rarely read in Norah Waughs Corsets and Crinolines, just use the patterns. Today i read a little, and found this quote!

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote: Some years back, we had this topic up about wheather wheel farthingales was worn, or if they only used huge bumrolls. For those who came in late, some of the conversation is preserved on my webpage, here: http://www.netherton.net/robin (Every

RE: [h-cost] OT....another Christmas Carol

2006-10-01 Thread Kathryn Parke
Yes, I would be interested as well. Thanks. KP Sharon at Collierfam.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would love to have copies if you still have them. Dickens Fair is coming fast. Sharon C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruth Anne

[h-cost] need suggestions for campy 18th century costumes

2006-10-01 Thread Allison
Greetings, all. I am helping with a fundraiser for the March of Dimes. It's a silent auction/live auction/dancing/socializing event, and the theme is Let Them Eat Cake, in the style of Marie Antoinette. Instead of catered dinner, the food will be desserts. So we are trying to play up the

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread kelly grant
Thank you Bjarne! I hadn't noticed that one! Kelly - Original Message - From: Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:37 PM Subject: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time. Hi, Some years back, we had this topic up about

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread kelly grant
Robin, How did you build your roll/wheel in the end? I was liking the idea of a wheel farthingale, but can't seem to get the right look yet. I have a wheel supported by a large roll, but the outer edge collapses. Kelly - Original Message - From: Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi Robin, Yes you are right. I just thoaght it was obvious, that the support used for these styles, could very well have ben a wheel of whalebone at the top. Thats what i associated it to. But it could also be translated to farthingales was made of wheels of whalebone, cone shaped, but also

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Robin Netherton
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote: The term wheel of whalebone, could be both a coneshaped farthingale, and a drum shaped farthingale. Hmm, I hadn't even thought about the cone-shaped (Spanish) farthingales. How late were the cone-shaped farthingales worn? I had the impression

[h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-01 Thread Cascio Michael
Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try googling for the main site. Help? Cassandra

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-01 Thread SPaterson
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ and links off from there Sarah Paterson - Original Message - Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-01 Thread Adele de Maisieres
Cascio Michael wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try googling for the main site. Help? http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ -- Adele de

Re: [h-cost] 15rh century embroidery site

2006-10-01 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Sep 30, 2006, at 11:36 PM, otsisto wrote: -Original Message- http://medieval.webcon.net.au/period_15th_c.html It's a very nice extensive site ... a pity the site owner is still using some of my original art on it without attribution or permission after I directly asked for it to

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-01 Thread Melanie Schuessler
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ Cascio Michael wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try googling for the main site. Help?

RE: [h-cost] need suggestions for campy 18th century costumes

2006-10-01 Thread Sharon at Collierfam.com
Put them in skirts, but instead of panniers, make fake panniers using half rounds of material. If you put the straight part of the half circle on the selvage, you don't even have to hem. Gather the round edge and if that is too flat, pouf with nylon net, just like you're planning with the wigs.

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread E House
- Original Message - 1617 Else (mincing madams) why do we (alas!) Pine at your Pencill and conspiring Glasse? Your Curles, Purles, Perriwigs, your Whale bone wheels? That shelter all defects from head to heeles. Henry Fitz - Jeoffery, Satyres and Satyrical Epigrams. The

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, kelly grant wrote: How did you build your roll/wheel in the end? I was liking the idea of a wheel farthingale, but can't seem to get the right look yet. I have a wheel supported by a large roll, but the outer edge collapses. No wheel, just a roll. See more detailed

Re: [h-cost] wheel farthingale yeat another time.

2006-10-01 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, E House wrote: The 'head to heeles' part does suggest a farthingale to me, I must say, but as others have suggested, the farthingale seems like it would be, at the least, less than fashionable in 1617 The Spanish farthingale would have been long out of style. The French