This pregnant Tudor lady is currently on show at the Tate Britain...
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=27365&searchid=22478
Message: 11
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 21:50:50 +0100
From: Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost] Tudor pregnant images
To: Historical Costume <[EMAI
I have a reel of uncut spiral steel boning that I've had for a while, still
in the bag the shop put it in. I took it out last night because I want to
use it for a wedding dress I'm making for a friend, but it seems to have a
really strong, acrid smell to it. I know it will be in a casing and bel
My back issues don't go back that far, but they have a full set in our
college library and I'll be there tomorrow - I'll take a copy of it and the
associated info, so if you still need it by tomorrow night, I'll be able to
help.
Kate
From: Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost]
I love the Margot Leadbetter outfit!
And given your host of piracy pages, I feel compelled to direct you to
venganza.org, where they are founding a new "religion" partially based on
the theory that global warming is directly linked to a drop in the number of
pirates (they have a graph and ever
All this talk of fans has reminded me that "Cool: Presenting a Cooling Image
- Fans from The Fan Museum and Portraits from the Lafayette Photographic
Archive at the V&A" is on at the Fan Museum (London, UK) until 26 March, in
case anyone's interested.
http://www.fan-museum.org/exhibdetails.a
I took a goldwork class at the Royal School of Needlework
(www.royal-needlework.co.uk) at Hampton Court Palace - an amazing place to
learn, and about as authentic as it gets. I think they teach somewhere in
the US for a couple of weeks each spring/summer, too. The Sally Saunders
book (Royal Sch
I've got the Fashion book, then saw the two-volume set on special offer (I
think it was 9.99 GBP) at Borders. Despite the fantastic price, I flipped
through it and saw only a couple of extra pictures that weren't in the
Fashion book and decided it wasn't worth having both. But of the two, I
thi
It was Dickins and Jones on Regent Street that closed recently, not
Debenhams - Debenhams is alive and well and has branches all over the
country (Debenhams.com), but is far removed from an old-fashioned department
store these days.
Interestingly, it's the Designers at Debenhams range - where
The British Library has it - you may be able to order copies of the pages
here:
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/ENR7GYAJ1T2JAMUDK25VFG5Y6HJ4XG59HTM9K729C91UJQ4E9A-03231?func=full-set-set&set_number=102549&set_entry=01&format=999
Kate
Message: 11
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:41:37 -0600
From: Melani
RE: things to do in London for 12-year-old boys - the London Dungeon
(www.thedungeons.com) used to be much appreciated in my family, although I
remember some of our friends finding it too scary. I haven't been there for
at least 20 years, but it was gruesome in a way that boys in the 70s used to
> I'd like to find living, currently active, working scholars. There seems
> to be a gap here in current work :-(
Have you tried contacting the V&A? I'm sure there must be somewhere there
who specialises in this area.
I was talking to a friend on Friday who mentioned she's had
great success
I was struck at my husband's Postgrad graduation ceremony recently how, in a
post-Harry Potter world, academic robes now look faintly ridiculous.
Everyone just looks like a Hufflepuff etc.
Kate
Obligatory costume content: Do you know that Lego people now have little
fabric capes? They are fo
Those Ziploc bags sound great... I would definitely like to get my hands on
some of those.
FWIW, my mother always comes back from America and/or Australia with a
year's supply of what we call clingfilm - it's Glad Wrap in Australia, might
be the same in the US. Apparently other countries' clin
This quote from Helena Bonham Carter is from an interview with her on the
PBS website:
"I was pregnant during filming, making dressing up in the lavish costumes
required for a Tudor queen no mean feat! It's not exactly suitable maternity
wear! But the corsets gave some continuity while I got b
Thank you so much for posting that, Suzi - I find the staff in the shop very
intimidating, so it will be great to order via the safe distance of the
internet!
Kate
Message: 2
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 22:42:22 +
From: Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [h-cost] Mainly for UK members -
I don't know if this will help at all, but these definitions are from The
Dictionary of Needlework (1882):
Hamburg Point - a lace made at Hamburg by Protestant French refugees, after
the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The lace is now obsolete, but was a
description of Drawn Work, like that
With regards to the conversation a couple of weeks ago on keyword spamming
on eBay, I wonder how this monstrosity, which looks NOTHING like anything
even vaguely Austen-related, slipped through the net:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8362341194
Perhaps the solution is to spe
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