Re: [h-cost] A question on sewing fur

2010-03-19 Thread Bonnie Booker
No, fabric has more give than skins. Direct skin to skin would wear holes and make the seam give. This way you can remove it for washing too. On 3/13/10, AVCHASE achasedes...@peoplepc.com wrote: What I was taught as a child: use a fine leather needle and a waxed thread when sewing fur by hand.

Re: [h-cost] Can anyone help with links?

2010-03-19 Thread Aylwen Garden
Thanks Deb, they are certainly some good links for me to consider long term. In the short run I'm more looking for display ideas of other exhibitions that people may have photographed and put online to get layout ideas. I've got some mannequins and heads but I'm the sort of person who puts some

Re: [h-cost] Can anyone help with links?

2010-03-19 Thread Deborah Lane
I also understand that CIT at Reid run a course for would be curators. I am sure they have a library with suitable texts for their students. ANU run a curatorship subject through their art history unit. Your husband works at the ANU, dose he not? Check their library. Or, as you say this is

[h-cost] Wigs for the gray :)

2010-03-19 Thread Marjorie Wilser
Hi there, My long hair has been working on going gray for the last 20 years, and has been phenomenally successful at it. Now, I'm interested in hairpieces to add to my historical illusion. Trouble is, affordable hairpieces don't seem to come in gray. Why should the dark-haired get all

Re: [h-cost] Wigs for the gray :)

2010-03-19 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 3/19/2010 8:31:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, the3t...@gmail.com writes: or long hair which can be styled into an Apollo knot for Regency. Just my two cents, but if your hair is gray, and you interpret the Regency, most of the time your hair shouldn't be showing.

Re: [h-cost] Wigs for the gray :)

2010-03-19 Thread AnnBWass
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