At 03:40 PM 11/5/2011, you wrote:
My list usually tends heavily toward books, too. This year I'm
planning to ask for Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion: 1660-1860
(believe it or not, I've never even read it!), and a VA book called
19th Century Fashion in Detail that apparently has gorgeous
Hi,
I've been looking at the available drawings of 10th/11th century/early 12th
century clothing in England--many of them done in the Byzantine art style Gale
Owen-Crocker calls fussy in _Dress in Anglo-Saxon England_, which makes it
hard to know what to take literally. But as a weaver I've
Given the parameters you mention, Lauren, I think your theory makes
sense. It is what I would do to avoid cutting the fabric-- sew the two
selvedges together and allow an opening which would not have to be
cut. Any cut edges to be placed at the bottoms and hemmed or finished
some way,