Just an 'aside' -- Although the moern safety pin might have been invented
around 1845, the Princeton Art Museum has a safety pin in their ancient
Greek and Roman collection.
The invention is only for the safety pin as we know it today. Bronze Age
folks also had fibulae, just not exactly what
I made one from a modern one with a circular top, and my older daughter a
c.1595 white Elizabethan dress over it. No walker showing, and all I had to
do was hold onto the leading strings.
On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Mary mary_m_haselba...@yahoo.com wrote:
If you look up Ages of man you'll
Hippies were doing that way back in the 1960s. And remember Janice Joplin's
two-piece outfit made from a lace tablecloth? But yeah, thanks for the
links. Fun stuff there.
http://www.magnoliapearl.com/shop/clothing/clothing-gallery3.htm
For one of my classes A while Back I had to recycle mens wool garments
into a tailored jacket.
Recycling garments into other garments became popular in the Great
Depression of the 1930s, and became unpopular when it didn't have to
be so necessary.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is
Grandmother taught me that to change knits machine sew a grossgrain ribbon of
the desired length on the line to be cut. Cut below the line. Sew on the
outside if a rounded finish is desired, turn and hand hem on the ribs. Sew on
the inside for a more casual look. Use for sleeves, armholes,
Lots of examples of too-arty-to-be-wearable.
Except to a science fiction convention, or an evening event in San Francisco
(by a twenty-something), or to a Wearable Art or Fiber Art event.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
And what is it we are supposed to look at?
Oops. Um, you were supposed to look at the link I forgot to include:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=lukas/100415sportCat=mlb
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William
I'm wondering: How many adults are doing arty recycling
of garments and linens? By arty I mean more than just buying something
second hand and altering it to size.
Google on Discarded To Divine. It's an example of Altered
Couture, another thing to Google on. Discarded to Divine is a yearly
Baseball and costuming -- how can one go wrong? (Ans: way too easily, of
course)
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William
Gold leaf is a lot thicker than 2 molecules.
I meant atoms, because it's an element. But, looking it up just now,
the stuff's really thin, like no more than a few atoms thick. I read
once that the minimum was two, and that the ancient Romans could get
down to four. Back then it was made by
The gold jewelry really pops! Is it gold leaf?I believe that gold leaf is
only two molecules thick, so maybe gold plated which, I think, is thicker
and, therefore, more durable. And gold leaf has to be applied by hand, with
glue, where plating is quicker.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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Sorry, but the April Fool's Day joke was renaming Google to Topeka.
Yeah, I sat that this afternoon and had to wonder. Definitely not in
Kansas anymore...
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
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I always thought I knew what a pork pie hat was. I wondered how the heck
someone could mistake a pork pie for a fedora, so I googled both. Guess I
didn't know what a pork pie hat was afterall!
Frank Lloyd Wright always wore a porkpie hat.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already
I should have mentioned that I am a Laurel in costuming, and have been for
some time.
There must be several of us Laurels on this list. But I got my Laurel so
long ago that they didn't give them specific names, so mine's generic.
I understand the magic of trying to make something as
And, unlike the common perception of Goths, black clothing is not
universally worn by the Steampunk crowd.
The running joke is Steampunk is what happens when goths discover brown.
Lots of grey in there too.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly
I think you got it on the mark - Goth in Indian safari suits??? ;)
I've seen that.
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.”
-William Gibson
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I think a major difference is that Steampunk is more of an aesthetic
movement (decoration, clothing, accessories), while Goth is more of a
philosophy,
To some Steampunk is a philosophy; that of making things ones self.
Steampunk includes building steam engines, steam-powered motorcycles,
It looks to me like it could be a fancy-dress costume from the 1880s that
was supposed to be colonial. I have seen some very interesting
1880s'
era fancy dress costumes; no matter the time period that was supposed to
be
represented, they all had the 1880s' wasp-waisted silhouette.
Dolly
Yep, Australia. Adelaide to be specific.
In Adelaide we discovered 1% alcohol ginger beer, sold as a soft drink
at that time in Australia. And we were overflown by a flock of
budgies one afternoon.
I have that Nancy
Bradfield book too (although I think I got it off Amazon). It is lovely. It
We still have the budgies, but not the ginger beer I think.
I have the paperback edition. Colour pictures would be nice, but I love the
drawing of the 1913 evening dress in the back.
Yeah, the first edition doesn't have that, nor the mitts, nor the
article about women riding bicycles.
In
Strictly speaking it's now autumn here
Australia? The one time I visited Australia was around Easter (autumn
down there). In Sydney I bought my copy of Nancy Bradfield's book
with the drawings of real garments, in Adelaide I got a c.1912 parasol
really cheap in an op-shop (=thrift store), and
I think I would go without, if I were you, considering the extreme hassle it
would be in a white cotton.
And the fact that nobody seems to know how to behave around a train,
and if it ever hits the floor somebody will step on it.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is
I believe
that means it has a train, and they must still have been fashionable on the
Continent at that time.
Or maybe, if someone gave uit to her, it's an older trained dress that
was out of fashion and the donor thought it could be remodeled by the
recipient.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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My Viking garb. She's been hiding under it for several months now so I don't
feel guilty about looking at her with nothing on.
I used to take Patience to elementary schools for costume-related
demos, but the kids would giggle when I took the dress off to pack it.
So I gave her my t-shirt
A gardener told me that privet, like for hedges and ornamental bushes, is
the same as boxwood. Boxwood has a buttery-fine grain for carving, so it
can take lots of little detail. I keep thinking busks could be made of
pruned pieces from a privet hedge.
Saw this at Christies and thought some
Me and my brown thumb. I do know privet has a nice carving grain,
said gardener having provided me with some small logs of it which he
pruned from someplace. Thanks for the clarification.
Actually, they're different families:
privet
Boxwood
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is
The difference between the Victorian/Edwardian and 1960s/1970s philosophies,
is that for the Victorians and Edwardians it was routine, and for the
hippies it was Look, I'm recycling!
More likely, look, I'm decorating!, or demonstrating a new
needlework method they'd just learned.
If the
Question: are?there any historical ?references to this method in other times?
Hippies didn't care if the mends showed, where Victorians/Edwardians
did. So earlier mends were as invisible as the craft of the
seamstress could produce. Dover republished a book called Victorian
Sewing Techniques
The sleeves are short and in a bell shape like the 1890s.
As others have said, typical Philippina (female from the Philippines)
sleeves. One of my daughters married a Philippino and his mother
still wears sleeves like that today (or did as of Easter this year).
Google on Imelda Marcos for more
Cloth of gold, riche,
Cloth of gold, riche purpille
Cloth of gold, grene
I inherited some of what I believe is purple cloth-of-silver. It has
a purple silk warp and a silver-plated copper weft. It doesn't drape
worth diddly, and hangs slightly angular, not smooth, and it catches
the light
Hairbrush
On a fuzzy dress, I have really good luck with brushing dirt and such out
of hems with what was sold as a pot brush, but is a round, natural bristled
brush about 3 inches in diameter. I'd like to find a bigger one, but this
one at least is nice and stiff. I got it at World Market.
I don't think I have a standard brush for a hair brush,
Buy a cheapie plastic hairbrush for this. I use mine for this, then
send it through the washer to clean it.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson
--
For a while in the 80s it seemed like fancy computerized sewing machines
were a status symbol among my costuming friends. It seemed like they all
had to have the latest and greatest (and most expensive) electronic sewing
machines out there. Some of their machines did cross stitch almost as nice
A couple of options I see:
1) Go to walmart, buy something like the Brother CE-5000PRW, which
has every basic thing I think I'd need, and appears to do automatic
buttonholes.
a) pros - cheap enough to buy another if it has problems
b) cons - not as expandable with features, no local
Unless the gore is very long, I prefer to sew by hand as it ie easier to
manipulate the fabric.
That's what I was going to say - sew it by hand. I do a lot of hand sewing
when the going gets rough. And this garment was originally sewn by hand
anyway. The sewing machine trades speed for
However, they used to have live chickens on ships before the invention of
refrigerators, so why not sheep as well?
By the 19th century ships might have chickens, goats and pigs, but not
cows (who are subject to seasickness, sometimes fatally). No idea
about the Armada sheep (the black Irish
North eastern and western are said to have used cedar. It was stripped,
dried, pounded and then shredded, then woven.
I think you're right about that.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson
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What kinds of fibers would the scraelings have had to weave with?
Strips of leather? Strips of bunny fur? Some American native tribe
wove of strips of bunny fur, but I don't remember who or when.
so what would they have made clothes and blankets out of?
The Mexican natives (Aztec, Maya,
I have a copy of The Encyclopedia of World Costume, by Doreen Yarwood. Any
opinions on this one? Is it worth saving or should I toss it?
I saw a copy once, and didn't buy it, no regrets. I didn't like it.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly
I can definitely see that typical colonial reaction of anything from
the homeland being better, but sheer scarcity would surely lead the
colonists to make use of what's around them. I'm also thinking,
though, about the many types of native clothing that European
frontiersmen adopted, and how
Hello Sidney,
You are looking for MODERN ballroom gowns? Is this really the appropriate
group for modern clothing? We usually discuss historical clothing items. I am
sure if you ask for favorite historical ballroom gowns you will get quite a
bit. But perhaps you should ask another group
Assuming some influence from both sides of the merger, what would the
resulting mixed-race culture have worn, several hundred years in?
As stated, they'd probably look a lot like we do now, 2009 being
several hundred years in. How many years into the development did
you really want?
--
Well, I'm interested both in the modern day effects of a successful
Vinland colony, and--since it's my favorite clothing era--in 14thC and
15thC Vinland fashions! But I'll take anything I can get.
Hmm. Within a couple of centuries regular trade should have been
established. And fur would be
Assuming some influence from both sides of the merger, what would the
resulting mixed-race culture have worn, several hundred years in? If,
for example, there were a Vinlander GFD, what would it have looked
like? What would the men wear in cold weather? What kind of shoes
would people
Is the sarafan a relative of the apron dress??
I don't think so. It has sides, and, in its recent configurations, it
has straps sewn right on. They're wide apart in front and close
together in back. And the garment doesn't seem to go back farther
than the 1600s (I tried researching one for SCA
I'm guessing it's a Bronzino painting. You might try Googling on
Bronzinoand looking at the images.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Tracy Thallas fathal...@collinscom.net wrote:
Am hunting the references on this painting -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/liadains_fancies/3963118205/
Picked
About the only other bit of info I could use it the year - but with the
title/artist/museum, have a great chance of finding that! Thanks!
OK, so what were the dates on the other ones with the same dress?
That should get it within 10 years either way.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The
saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see
it.
** Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found **
The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon gold artefacts is found buried beneath
a field in Staffordshire.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8272058.stm
That was in Jost Amman's Book of Trades (occupations), republished by
Dover. Many back views, and side views too, in that book.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 9:30 AM, Chiara Francesca
chiara.france...@gmail.com wrote:
One of the questions we get a lot on this list is how does the back of this
Thereal trick is to look at dozens of sources. Eventually you'll find
side and back views of some of it. Not common.
A long tme ago, someone on this list suggested that the book we need someone
to publish would be called Hey Lady, Turn Around!
My problem is that so often a painting includes
http://www.longago.com/pp23-env.gif
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Regina Voorhesreginalaws...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, my partner wants something like a knee-length cotehardie with a standing
band collar. Does this actually exist? Is it called something specific?
Thanks,
Regina in L.A.
My dummy is wearing a Victorian corset, 1890's shirtwaist, 1893 petticoat.
1/2 finished bell skirt. Sorry no photos yet.
Mine's wearing my Ren. Faire dress and hat, so I can keep decorating
the hat and so maybe the wrinkles will hang out of the dress (I hate
ironing). Mine has a head I made
I think that's when fall-front trousers were finally going out of
style. I read someplace that Brigham Young, the Mormon, was
complaining about the new-fangled fly-front ones, and that would be
about the right time period.
I've read this list for years and now need some direction. Can anyone
Check either the swing dancer places or the kinky places.
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Marjorie Wilserthe3t...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anybody know a source for hose, or even knee-highs, with back seams? A
friend needs them for a historical presentation.
Thanks!
== Marjorie Wilser
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Michael Hamilton mjhamilto...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello All,
I'm a newbie so I beg your patience
No advice at the moment, except to remind you that everyone on this list was
once a newbie. So you've probably come to the right place.
--
Carolyn Kayta
Hi, I am going to do an early 17th century woman's middle class dress,
location: Bohemia (today's Czech Republic, east of Germany if someone
doesn't know), time: 1618-1648. I want it to look like this:
I am aware that a lot of people love receiving little bits of info, I just
generally find it insubstantial. And I know a lot of people love to
socialize. I know a lot of people actually care what others are doing minute
by minute. And I love technology, but this kind of thing is not for me.
I
I've seen lots of ric-rac sewn together into garments or trim in the
1880s. I've seen at least two entire dresses made this way. I think
it's totally silly, which makes me want enough white ric-rac to do
something about it.
There is a page
of Rick-Rack Work! It's PERIOD! I only learned of
If you had to assign a time period
what date would you give for this:
http://www.butterick.com/item/B5405.htm?tab=costumespage=1
1940s?
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
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“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson
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I still say easier. Total beginners can buy accurate historical
patterns and follow them and look great, even if they're not
costume-research junkies like me.
Take, for example, a good historical campfire cook. They've got
historical cookbooks like I've got historical costume books. They
know
However, my overall philosophy for making clothing for reenacting is,
stick with what I have pretty good knowledge was really worn, rather than the
maybes or the exceptions.
It isn't a philosophy that I could argue with too strongly, as it certainly
stops the fantasy input one can get, but I
My favourites, where they exist, tend to be the
patterns in magazine of the time and from extant garments when you can get
access to them, ie not the ones everyone has done.
Yep.
But much of my recreation
started well before patterns (at the time) or before there were any kind of
commercial
For corsets I make I use really big grommets. So a knot in the end of
whatever I'm using for lacing is fine, fits right through the holes.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Kate Pinner pinn...@mccc.edu wrote:
Certainly not period correct, but I use lacing cord-by-the spool from
Greenberg
Satin ribbon doesn't stay tied as well as grosgrain does. Twill tape is
better.
I use shoelaces - really long ones, but I use three laces for my corset -
one for the couple of holes right at the waist, one for all the holes above
it, and one for all the holes below it. It's the only way I know
I could also see narrow grosgrain
ribbon, and I think that's what I'll look for to get me through this trip.
And grosgrain ribbon stays tied, which poly-satin ribbon doesn't. You
probably already know to cut the ends on a diagonal.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it
My 1901 living history group watched several of these when they were on
You-Tube. It's primary source material on walking in a long skirt in the
periods when the film was shot.
I recently bought a DVD of early film shorts titled Electric Edwardians,
most made before 1910.
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Carolyn Kayta
Besides, admit it - it was fun.
The 60s were where I discovered ethnic garments and embroidery, thanks
to Cost Plus and the Pier One that existed back then (not the Yuppie
thing it turned into later). I got interested then, started
researching, and here I am today - one of the few historical
Thanks. If you can't dazzle 'em with your brains, baffle 'em with embroidery.
Very handsome it was, too.
I wore one of these to CostumeCon this year,
including lots of cross stitch.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William Gibson
My Junior year, coats and ties were no longer required except for Sunday
sit down dinner at one's advisor's table. But still no T-shirts to class!
As recently as the 1980s women weren't allowed to wear t-shirts to class at
my trade school. So I convinced them that a plain-colored
I was at Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia from
1964-1966.
major snippage
This all sounds like what many people were doing when I was in High School
in southern CA. then, except for the church and white gloves part. The
Beach Boys, and the (male) surfer crowd in southern
the recent spate of Pre-Raphaelite painter calendars, yipes.
I happen to like pre-Raphaelite and Gothic Revival Medieval costumes, for
what they are rather than for what they aren't. I even have vague plans to
make one, someday...
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it
In Southern California (probably the rest of California too) long skirts
came in with the Hippie look. Bonnie Parker's skirts were much straighter
than ours, which were either tiered or gathered and very full. I remember
these skirts when I was still in high school, before the film came out.
I wore a tie-dyed tee shirt, shorts, and sandals to Woodstock. So did a lot
of other people.
Oh yeah! Rent a copy of Woodstock and take notes.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William
Gibson
--
I remember freezing in skirts in the winter because we weren't allowed to
wear pants. In a class where the teacher wore a sheepskin vest (nice and
cozy) and kept the windows open for fresh air. Talk about a distraction!
In Indiana in the mid-1950s we got to wear trousers under our skirts
I remember my older brother's Cool Girlfriend wearing long dresses when I
was in 8th grade, in 1971. By the time I was in high school, a year later,
the pattern companies were showing most of their teen oriented dresses in
both mini and long lengths.
I wore a granny dress to school in about
When my 25-year-old was still a junior in high school she came home from a
thrift store with a pair of poly double-knit trousers, in the mandatory
plaid, and tried to convince me they were cool. I offered to tell her what
we thought of those when they were new, which ended the conversation. I
But
I'm curious if this fad was wide-spread during the late '60s at high
schools
in other parts of the country.
San Diego,where I spent the 60s, gets12 inches of rain per year, on
average. So no, we didn'tgetthatfad. I only just got a raincoat a couple
of years ago, surplussed out from
the Mode-in books were considered very doubtful sources. All of them.
That's Ruth Turner Wilcox, and The Mode In Costume was originally published
in 1948.
Interesting also, speaking of re-drawings, to compare any garment which
appears both in Janet Arnold and Nancy Bradfield, and there are
She did violence to a number of Vecellio's images--I actually used Wilcox
to make my very first Renaissance costume in high school and years later
found out that the image I used was Vecellio's imperfect interpretation of
the previous century re-drawn with improvements by Wilcox. Needless to
It was the preppy look which, I don't think, ever made its way to the west
coast.
It made it to San Diego, or at least a madras plaid version did.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William
Gibson
--
No. I was in CA, so I understand that the 60s probably hit the midwest
later. Funny, though, that that was something that never occurred to me for
a long time. I just assumed everyone everywhere was dressing ( and
behaving) as we did in CA.
The 60s hit San Diego a couple of years after
I guess my husband and I are just stuffy, but we do get tired of people (in
general, not you specifically) trying to justify all sorts of modern things
as having period antecedents, so why not use the modern thing. This
Pillbox terminology thing just pushed all our buttons in that area, I
Google on Garibaldi, then on garibaldi shirt. There are commercial
patterns.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 9:37 AM, purpl...@optonline.net wrote:
I am thinking of branching out into early US Civil War, and I was told that
'the easist thing to make is the Garibaldi shirt'.
However there were no
Also, they were considered undergarments, just as men's shirts were were
not worn alone. A Garibaldi waist was worn as an ensemble piece with either
a Zouave or bolero jacket , or a Swiss bodice.
I hadn't heard that, nor guessed it from the fashion plates I have seen with
no jacket.
--
If people want to call these amorphous blobbly things pillbox hats, fine;
but it's driving us crazy, G.
What part of it is driving you crazy - people calling this as-yet-nameless
thing by a name they recognize, or the fact that you can't find the example
you first saw? I do think that various
Try a beading needle? They're pretty tiny.
...and while I'm on this milinery thing... is there a special needle
or technique required for sewing real metal buillion braid The #8
needle I'm using leaves gigantic holes.
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Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Melanie Schuessler mela...@faucet.netwrote:
I agree with Karen. Though I think the general outlines of this outfit are
correct, it looks like an idealized genre painting.
I've seen some really well-dressed 19th century rural Eastern Europeans in
photos, and
As a side note, I was in a public place in San Francisco yesterday, and saw
two men who obviously knew each other, each wearing plain band rings on
their left middle fingers. I don't know if they were in San Francisco for
our Pride event this Sunday, and it was some Gay usage I don't know about,
There's a book, Dover I think, on ribbonwork. It was originally from the
early 20s and will have a lot of hat things in it. (I'm not home right now
or I'd look up the particulars.)
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Cin cinbar...@gmail.com wrote:
Gentle readers,
I've been looking thru Candace
The OLD Houses of Parliament were burnt-down in a catastrophic fire in
the early 1840's - 1842, I think, - leaving only Westminster Hall from the
older buildings.
A.W.N. Pugin was the Architect who did most of the detail design for the
new Houses of Parliament.
Came across this same info in
First of all, it looks to be a later image, meaning a painting not done
during her lifetime. Most likely this is a Victorian image or even more
modern, I don't know for sure.
I agree, Victorian or modern (1950s at a guess, from the style of
face). In which case, all bets are off about
Historically accurate or not, it looks like a good project to play around
with,
One the one hand, I'd go for not. On the other hand, I own a 1960s
Romance novel in paperback, with a Renaissance dress on the cover that's
so bad I'd like to recreate it on a doll. I spent twenty-five cents on
What a strange portrait. It looks like an amalgamation, or artist's
re-imagining of something like these two gowns, with a bit of Flanders flair
in the color and in the hat:
As others have already said, I'd guess a much later date, more like early
20th century than Victorian, though.
The
Darn. I was hoping to find out where the portrait came from, when it was
painted, and things like that.
I was searching for images of doublets online. I came across Lady Jane Grey
ones. Then I looked at them and found this one. It's online, that's all I
know.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
Don't judge the book by it's cover. I have read books about black haired
heroines, which have a picture of a blonde heroine on the front.
I didn't *judge* the book by its cover, I *bought* the book by it's cover,
used, for twenty-five cents. I judged the book by its publication date (and
by
Clear diamonds aren't as common before 1600 as they are after it. This may
be due to supply or may be due to cutting technique, I don't know. But by
the early-1700s they seem to be everywhere, in quantity, and sparkling like
themselves. Mid-1600s too, IIRC.
I stand corrected. Black diamonds
Unless you plan on having the garment judged for its accuracy, enjoy yourself
in your interpretation.
At a place like CostumeCon there's a whole category called
Interpretation, for different takes on historical garments.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just
I just took a ruff workshop today, and was told NOT to use the selvedge
edge
because it makes the ruff hang oddly.
Always works for me. But what do I know.
--
Carolyn Kayta Barrows
--
“The future is already here, it is just unevenly distributed.” -William
Gibson
--
My son and I are making an anime costume
http://www.geocities.com/eyesofaclown/images/Perriot.JPG . Does anyone
have advice on how to attach the ruffles to the band.
The one in your image looks similar to cartridge pleating. To stiffen it,
start with something already a little stiff and
I think these are reproductions out of Norris, Kohler or one of the books
they copied from
Those drawings aren't from Kohler, so it must be Norris or somebody else.
I am interested in the pattern on the fabric which is reproduced up in the the
left hand corner.
I think that's the
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