Yes, Pls, Do Send List.
YAY, our elect. is back! landline & internet next! (hoorah for a kid who can
set us up w wi-fi from the apple-phone)
Chimney
> On Dec 16, 2016, at 11:29 AM, mhprobe...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Hi List, I'm clearing out various costume/textile books, most in like new
>
saw some period “pashminas” on-line when I was hunting… they didn’t look much
like the fabrics in the movie, well, maybe the floral embroidery on black… what
were in the movie were much smaller than the period ones… can I find a link…
yes, Diane Thalmann
Yes, I’m talking about Love and Friendship, which we saw over the weekend.
What caught my eye particularly in the costume area was how often the ladies’
great big Kinsale-type cloaks ALSO had some kind of little shawl or scarf
around the shoulders. Those little strips of sheer lacy stuff
yes, please… I am currently reading an alternative history set where-in folks
unable to access regular smoking-tobacco make do with all kinds of
substitutions (usually awful), so unless there's a cured tobacco leaf as we
know it also in that babewyn, I'd wonder if what she were smoking might
rently not to our taste.
>
> Fran
> Lavolta Press
> www.lavoltapress.com
>
> On 1/8/2016 10:01 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
>> So, we had a trip north today and stopped by The Whole 9 Yards to see, as we
>> had never heard of it, and fabric stores are few and far bet
So, we had a trip north today and stopped by The Whole 9 Yards to see, as we
had never heard of it, and fabric stores are few and far between here… it is
gorgeous, VERY easy to find and has a small amount of off-street parking
(important in that part of town). Very impressive displays (as far
Well, I got my husband the civil war uniform pattern from McCall's for his
some-day Steampunk wardrobe. We haven't sewn for SCA or anything else in years,
sigh. He got me a truckload of period cookery resources, but the next MC
isn't gonna' be out until Feb or some-such. A whole buncha' stuff
I too certainly want this list to continue, as I don't truck with Facebook! I
signed up a million years ago but just so I could LOOK at stuff there… and so
many groups I'm interested in now are behind sign-in walls! I still don't care
to enrich Mr Facebook's coffers, so I really depend on this
Sounds MARVELOUS! We've been following American Bungalow magazine and the other
major Arts-n-Crafts-houses one (which I can never remember the name of!) for
quite a while now.
Since it's only the 40's, that's probably too recent for any Sacramento
heritage-housing organization to be
I hope not, or if so, that it is an open site… I don't care to turn my life
over to the world via Facebook and SO many research sites there are locked up
where you can't see the info!
just my 2 cents!
chimene
On Aug 29, 2015, at 11:13 AM, Carol Kocian aqua...@patriot.net wrote:
Does
what on earth happened there! I thought(!) I put in an url; let's hope this
copy sticks!!!
https://www.reconstructinghistory.com/blog/1910s-projects-the-surprise.html
chimene
On Aug 22, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Patricia Dunham chim...@ravensgard.org wrote:
this one? 1910s Projects — The Surprise
this one? 1910s Projects — The Surprise | Reconstructing History
I can't find the book in local PL, so tried on-line! certainly found lots of
fascinating stuff; hope the page above might be some help???
chimene
On Aug 21, 2015, at 3:29 PM, RobinandKelly Dorman
Yeah, it has been quiet.
We don't do Facebook because we're OLD, we do still believe in privacy and
don't think much of the merchandising of FB info.
The weekend just past was Kingdom 12th Night here in AnTir, that kind of thing
might also obtain in other parts of the country???
Now let's see
The big Swedish-Viking exhibit that's in Victoria BC through Remembrance Day is
moving to The Field Museum next, I think…. oh well. It won't be getting to
Chicago until late February:
The tour will premiere on May 16, 2014 at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria
and be on display there until
Well, my first impression from Google images was that the white garment was a
shift, the cotton slip you'd wear at the base of everything, corset goes over
it, bustle bum-roll goes over it, only any possible knickers would go under
it…
a VERY Lizzie-phile website where I found a review of the
the way I heard it, a ZILLION years ago, so probably SCA-fantastic, was that
the Landsknecht started out as mercenaries, who would loot the baggage as well
as the bodies... and would want to wear as much of that loot at the same time,
as possible as advertisement! (see how much I've collected,
I wonder if this is not really a recent discovery, but museum folks working
through the large numbers of Tarim Basin celtic mummies? Time periods in the
articles certainly overlap, and Xinjiang Province is where the Tarim Basin IS!
I'm pretty sure the Chinese are prickly about anything found in
reading Shadow of the Lion, set in 1530-ish Venice... this term sounds kind of
clothing-related but also indicates social status? like, nouveau-riche?? I HAVE
just spent a while googling for a definition, but no luck.
The specific line that has inspired me to try to get specific here is : Curti
Oh. My. Goodness! Totally amazing, I just spent almost an hour!!! I wonder
how long this phase will last, 8-) A long time, I hope.
thank you SO MUCH for the link!!!
chimene
On Mar 2, 2014, at 8:16 PM, Marjorie Wilser wrote:
Just had to share this. Talk about amazing from a kid!
Nobody has started this thread yet? Amazing, 8-)
Well... Medieval Clothing and Textiles #9, thanks to a coupon that brought the
price down to what the DH could stand!
Dress Accessories, 1150-1450 (finally)
Wearing the Cloak, Dressing the Soldier in Roman Times (this goes with
Thanks all for the responses about those velvet terms; much appreciated.
NOW... we need to replace some bath towels. BUT! where do YOU buy decent bath
towels these days?
JCPenney used to be our go-to for almost all bed bath linens, but not so much
these days. They appear to be suffering the
my steam-punker has been attracted recently by victorian velvet outfits from
the OMG that dress site, so he's been looking on-line at velvets.
we have hit a term we can't find a real definition for. does anyone know what
is meant by doux cotton velvet. doux literally means sweet. some of the
) hair dress that kinda looks oriental too. Lemme see
if I can find pics.
Sg
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Marjorie Wilser the3t...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:35 AM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
This is very OT for 12thC, but I've always wondered how it was done...
Navajo
This is very OT for 12thC, but I've always wondered how it was done... Navajo
women's traditional double-bun hair-dress. I think I'm going to ponder for a
while if a similar technique might be of assistance in achieving the Viking
women's ritual knot hair-dress, which, admittedly, is also OP
since I'm also washing a separate load of dark red theater curtain velvet, that
does sort of make me wonder if there were miniscule tufts of velvet left in the
machine when I washed the linen stuff originally (out-sizing first wash) --
bleedy red velvet tufts?
the bra was left for quite a
We're in the process of sorting, washing-musty-out, and re-packing the fabric
stash and have discovered about 5 pieces of mostly-white, mostly-linen that has
a FEW, random pink and/or blue-y/black-y spots. We've only really noticed this
tonite. Doesn't seem to be occuring on the white cottons
Just looked at your photos, could you please confirm that the exhibit and book
deal exclusively with women's garments? (My husband is interested in men's
Victorian fashion, as a foundation for his Steampunk interests, for himself.)
thanks much,
chimene
On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:02 AM, Astrida
We recently found that SOME of the fabric in our wooden fabric cupboards had
become sort of damp-musty smelling. So far it has all washed out.
However, we are now in the middle of re-habing the cupboards. Gonna' get them
up on legs for better ventilation under (crawl space is not insulated);
hello there, have you been hacked? if this is a real url, please let us know
what the subject matter is. kthxbye
On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:58 PM, dotson...@yahoo.com wrote:
http://kseroserwis.pl/17/17friends.php?onuxa=b3%ro%t2%70%h8%m6%x8%i3%c1%a8%h1%68okigevup=6538016
woops! sorry, meant that to go just to dotsontwo !! chimene
On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
hello there, have you been hacked? if this is a real url, please let us know
what the subject matter is. kthxbye
On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:58 PM, dotson...@yahoo.com wrote
wow, thx! that's a great article. nice to see the reporter take it seriously.
(now I want to go look up the Roman fort article, too! 8-))
reminds me of the Caryatid Hair Project, Fairfield College
http://www.fairfield.edu/cas/ah_caryatid.html
chimene
On Feb 7, 2013, at 10:33 AM, Lavolta
Braun et Schneider is really Victorian, the plates you mention are available
on-line at http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/COSTUME4_INDEX.HTML
Personally, I see a short length of decorated, CENTERED opening at the top
neck. I do not get any impression of off-centered-ness from this gold-colored
well, h-cost. I got v.8 of the Kalamazoo papers for my birthday back on Dec 4.
I got (for Himself) a couple more steampunk patterns for my Mad Scientist
wanna'be, 8-). Myself, I mostly got children's illustrator books, and a few
cookery bookeries, but quite satisfied overall.
well, Himself is
Nothing I've found on-line indicates any academic background at all for Ms
Simeti. She has written 4 books, mostly based on her life in Sicily with her
Italian husband, including 2 cookbooks.
chimene
On Nov 13, 2012, at 11:29 AM, snsp...@aol.com wrote:
The statement comes from Mary Taylor
Watching news tonight, noticed, again, some woman on national TV, a
national-level government consultant (!) -- her hair looks like a wet string
mop. Like she's been dressing her hair with olive oil to make it look greasy
stringy ON PURPOSE. Or MAYBE? this is supposed to look like it's still
??? I have had a puzzlement understanding the flurry about this. It never
occured to me that those links might be a virus danger. Why not?
1. All three links had the same modesty glasses phrase IN THE LINK; the
Huffpo link had a LOT more verbiage than that, which made the subject even more
Part of the problem, it could possibly be a version of several different types,
so one name may not get you what you're looking for.
This hat, yes?
in touch with Ms Dawson, I would offer her webspace on our
Ravensgard pages for this article or anything else she wanted to put back on
the web. (we're in the process of creating a
Steampunk/Victorian/Post-Renaissance page, at Ravensgard.org)
Chimene
On Aug 3, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Patricia Dunham
you might try the Wayback Machine at
http://web.archive.org/web/20080516072118/http://cherrydawson.com/StaysWorkshop/stays_notes.htm#Choosing
Most of the instructions appear to be there, except for the Measuring, but if
you search for cherrydawson.com and poke around some more dates besides
well... I'm afraid I have no idea why it's not working for you. FWIW, I am
using an iMac, OSX 10.6.8, Safari 5.1.7, Firefox 13.0.1 I have not seen
anything about passwords at all.
umm my husband (my techie) says if you're using a PC, the line-breaks in the
urls may be confusing your browser?
On Jun 28, 12, at 10:58 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
from context on this page http://vasportsman.com/Coaching_in_Newport.pdf, I
believe that in the modern sport of Coaching, whip may refer to the main
driver, usually the owner or at least the organizer of a coaching group, the
one who
the Urumchi/Taklamakan textiles are dated 1900 BC to 200 AD (Wiki article on
Tarim Mummies); and that article notes that EJW Barber compared the textiles
to those at the Halstatt salt mines, which are dated 8th to 6th centuries BC
(European Early Iron Age) in the Wiki Halstatt article. (I had
from context on this page http://vasportsman.com/Coaching_in_Newport.pdf, I
believe that in the modern sport of Coaching, whip may refer to the main
driver, usually the owner or at least the organizer of a coaching group, the
one who weilds the literal whip.
Coaching, as is currently quite
It is now 12.30 am (just after midnight) Friday morning. There has been
nothing come in since about 9.30 AM Friday. that's 15+ hours and seems like a
long time.
I know it's just before SOME 4th-of-July-long-weekend events, but it seems
early for EVERYbody to have disappeared?
see you soon,
Oh, I do waste so much time these days skimming the Daily Mail gossip articles,
8-), BUT~ !!! Sometimes you find things like this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2164388/Pret-papier-The-incredible-period-gowns-recreated-paper-glue-paint--stitch-fabric.html
related article at the
skirt elastic, not too bad... well, the channel in one really cheap skirt is
unstitching itself, but the elastic is pretty OK.
On another hand, has anyone else had inexpensive sweat pants suddenly start
burning up the waist elastic in the dryer, and stinking up the whole
dryer-ful something
there are lots of articles on-line about making your own at home. including a
number about how to fix various problems that occur with home-made, 8-)
cornstarch, potato-water starch, etc, etc.
chimene
On May 16, 2012, at 3:49 AM, stils...@netspace.net.au wrote:
Guddammut, time for a
wow does that sound familiar... the secret computer report on what MY household
buys, so they can quit carrying exactly those items!
oh, and my DH's theory that the MOST POPULAR items are highly likely to get
dropped, because it's so much bother re-stocking the popular stuff all the
time...
if it might be a cookie, you could purge your whole cookie file. we do that
occasionally on principal, and sometimes when things have slowed down a bunch.
Safari. good luck! should be able to do it on Firefox too. it's not terribly
inconvenient, probably 99% of cookies will replace themselves
On the one hand, I know that's probably 12th night weekend a lot of places, but
it does seem like a long time...
thanks!
On Jan 13, 2012, at 7:46 PM, R Lloyd Mitchell wrote:
fran, if there is any special type of button you might need for a project, I
too havea wonderful collection of said
Well, I got Medieval Clothing Textiles #7 for my birthday on Dec 4... don't
know if that counts, 8-)
But this morning there were 2 books about SCA-period cooking recipes, lots of
other books, a lovely set of long scarves that Santa found at the flea
market, but not really anything
Warn your loved ones away from this item (my DH thought he had found something
new and appropriate for my birthday on Dec 4) and this bogus publisher. This
may not be news to some of you because this outfit has a lot of professional
science fiction authors all riled up too (they are printing
Hi Aylwen,
Is there some reason you preferred the first pattern? As someone said, it
doesn't look much like -my- idea of Italian Renn. looks almost German to me,
but my DH says it just looks real middle class (on the right) and lower class
(the serving woman on the left). The overgown and
/TQqjLw4JHxI/AWg/DPT5w-h7vLk/s1600/Ghirlandaio-Girl.jpg
http://www.artbible.net/3JC/-Luk-01,39_Mary%20visits%20Elizabeth_La%20visitation/15%20GHIRLANDAIO%20DOMENICO%20JB%2002%20VISITATION.jpg
Teena
From: Patricia Dunham chim...@ravensgard.org
depending on where you live, you MIGHT be able to find bulk salt at a hardware
store, for de-icing sidewalks and steps and so-forth? or possibly at a farm
supply. this would be the time of year it would be in stock...
OR, the husband remembers, when we did our REALLY BIG dye job (canvas
fascinating. anybody know what you would call (for googling purposes) the JADE
cut shoe, if it was plain black leather, also lace-up top, with a plain heel
about the same height? looks SO close to the funny little shoes my farm/ranch
grandma used to wear, all the years I ever noticed them!
having just spent 20 min searching HARD, and finding nothing but several
references to the Lanvin skirt Beteena linked to... where did YOU come across
this term? I can't find ANYTHING on-line! the vintage lanvin pattern search
starts in the New Wave.
have found a couple of vintage pattern
go to the about button at the top of the page
there's a contact me link at the very bottom of her bio/intro... she's a
middle-aged lady from Jamaica, may be a good seamstress, and mean well, but not
be very sophisticated about crediting and borrowing and stuff... IMHO a gentle
approach might
On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Bambi TBNL wrote:
this is a two part question .
first is the flower originally called the pink, what we , today, call a
carnation or the origin of that flower?
yes, see esp the Dianthus caryophyllus article on Wiki,
Just ran across, by accident, 2 new CECELIA HOLLAND's -- hooray. THEN I looked
them up online and the covers -- argh! Obviously art-directed at the bodice
ripper set!
The King's Witch is a Richard II period piece with a not-very-good Ren-faire
wench in green, @
I also noted a BUNCH of interlining mentioned, it probably will be stiff as a
board by the time all layers are in place. which it would need to be, to deal
with the gathered-on sleeve-ishes.
On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Sharon Henderson wrote:
I bought the discontinued Simplicity 2529 both
My immediate reaction to the pictures (thanks!!!), was... hmm, look at the
discolorations, maybe hard-used... reminds me of the idea of a pinafore or
apron, for the top half of the body!
I had descriptions from both grandmothers, I think, of their childhood
wardrobes, of one dress for
robes someday; and LOTS of my son's WoW loot has huge
shoulder constructions, so, who knows?
On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
well, that's a relief, actually, because the only thing I could find at
simplicity 3076 was some 1930?'s vintage women's slips! thanks!!
about
.
If you hold your cursor over the shoulder area it will zoom in and you can
see the points. I don't eve know if there is a pattern 3076.
LynnD
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Patricia Dunham
chim...@ravensgard.orgwrote:
Hi Lynn,
Unfortunately, the URL below (for pattern 3076) now re
Hi Lynn,
Unfortunately, the URL below (for pattern 3076) now re-directs to what you were
probably referring to as the dreadful costume cape, pattern 2529. Do you
have any idea where one might find even an image of the real 3076?
thanks in any case,
chimene
On Sep 14, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Lynn
very interesting the color variation: the fotki picture looks relatively
moss-green, while the weheartit picture is very emerald-jewel-tone. It's the
same picture with two different color-balances. I prefer the toned-down color,
myself.
ALL the colors are differently balanced: the
OK, I taped it and am finally getting to taking a look... here you go, Penny:
10 Japan
9 Nigeria (red beads pointy hat!)
8 Bolivia (feather Carnivale)
7 Tanzania (spiky Xena armor)
6 Trinidad Tobago (all red feather Carnivale)
5 Curacao
4 Venezuela (!)
3 Thailand
2 Mexico (huh?!)
1 Panama
And Also... found these funny, catty comments:
http://www.tomandlorenzo.com/2011/09/miss-universe-2011-national-costumes.html
be sure to look at Pt 2 also.
On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:35 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
OK, I taped it and am finally getting to taking a look... here you go, Penny
thanks, Cin, for a really fun half-hour!!!
let's see... yes, lots of them look like overblown las vegas showgirls, esp.
the Carnivale types. And so many are completely made-up, even for countries
that used to have national costume! wow, saw a website with the 2010 national
costumes -- this
yeah, I've been sitting on my hands for days, waiting to see if anything turns
up! 4 days does seem like a long time. chimene
On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:04 PM, AVCHASE wrote:
Hi All! I've not gotten any posts since July 9. Has no one posted? Is the
list down? What's up? Audy
in the high
thanks much, Fran. While I was there (at the url you provided), I noticed many
other abstracts of great interest, and if you fiddle with the URLs, you can get
to several quite detailed versions of the schedule (i.e.
http://www.nesat.org/m1/programm.html
and a bit of a casual report from
hi Penny,
turns out most of what I found on-line is circular, back to an article History
of Matrimony, from some Italian wedding planner company!!! Will look more
tomorrow (Wed) in printed sources. No help on either Philippa OR Anne!
Although I did find one reference in Spanish
Apparently Anne wasn't even first; numerous ref's online to, I think, Princess
Philippa, daughter of Henry IV (Bolingbroke), 1406
She was married on 26 October 1406 to Eric of Pomerania [Scandinavia, Sweden]
in Lund Cathedral. Philippa was actually the first documented princess in
history to
I believe this is you? at about minute 20:45,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUACCHaNgE
very nice.
chimene
On May 3, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Lisa A Ashton wrote:
Costume Con 29 is over. And I won major awards with the Civil War era
dress of Sarah Ballou, in a historical presentation we called
is the part of the dress I'm interested in. Anybody have any ideas on how the
pleating at the side of the waist and in back interacts with the welt seaming
(?) between the skirt panels? OR any educated guessing on if or when there
might be a real commercial pattern available for this exact
Royal School of Needlework, Hampton Court, on CBS Sunday morning today. Took
some hunting but I finally found it:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7363014n
enjoy
chimene
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this:
From: Kimiko Small kim...@kimiko1.com
Subject:Re: [h-cost] Hoop storage (was (no subject))
Date: March 16, 2011 1:28:14 PM PDT
is the most recent post I've received.
Do I have a problem, or have things just gone REAL quiet?
thanks,
chimene
let's see ...
*mistress cori on headrails is a short text piece
*there's an East Kingdom class description: Veils, Headrails
Turbans, by Lady Brangwayna Morgan, but I haven't yet been able to find any
more on that one
*this http://www.virtue.to/articles/veils.html is
In our experience, this definition feels closest: Robes are a long, loose or
flowing gown or outer garment worn by men or women as ceremonial dress, an
official vestment, or garb of office. Robes in the context of your photos,
and modern Mardi Gras, is sort of a generic term for a complete
On Dec 26, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
Thanks for the information. I think we'll scan the cover and make ourselves
a dustjacket. Our books need the actual extra protection, although we're not
collectors or anything.
chimene
On Dec 26, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Robin Netherton
...
sorry to waste folks' bandwidth!
c.
On Jan 31, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote:
umm, Robin?
Just checking on pre-ordering #7 with a coupon we have, and Barnes Noble is
(still?) listing $6 as a hardback, and says #7 will be hardback-only... so
that's pretty confusing
Umm, I did go and read the website. They are not THAT small, he does them
one-quarter scale. So the average figure would be about 15-18 inches tall.
(60=5 feet, 72=6 feet). I think Barbie is about 12 inches tall???
There certainly are some amazing things there, but not everything is
seems to cover a lot of ground, see the following:
http://www.etsy.com/listing/60844056/vintage-1940s-schoolgirl-wide-brim-two
http://www.millistarr.com/hats/40beret.xhtml
http://www.rubylane.com/item/460150-1270/1940s-Vintage-Halo-Hat-x2aRoses
http://www.tias.com/973/PictPage/3923253103.html
www.goblinrevolution.org/costumes
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 14:56, Patricia Dunham chim...@ravensgard.org wrote:
Don't know if I actually have time to still get this by Xmas, BUT! Himself
re-iterated interest in a Steampunk/Victorian outfit again last night, so...
Anybody know anything about any
Thanks for the information. I think we'll scan the cover and make ourselves a
dustjacket. Our books need the actual extra protection, although we're not
collectors or anything.
chimene
On Dec 26, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Robin Netherton wrote:
On 12/25/2010 2:00 PM, Patricia Dunham wrote
Anybody know? Did Medieval Clothing and Textiles #6 have an edition that came
without a dust jacket, or do we need to yell at the vendor? Our Christmas copy
unexpectedly has a very nicely printed hard cover, but no dust jacket, and 1-5,
as we have them, all have DJs.
thanks!
chimene
ps, my
Well, the aforementioned Med Clothing Textiles #6.
Stella Mary Newton's Health, Art Reason! (to feed my Reform Dress jones!)
And there's SUPPOSED to be a frock coat pattern on the way. That one serves me
right for dithering so long, but both of us had multiple items not arrive in
time
Don't know if I actually have time to still get this by Xmas, BUT! Himself
re-iterated interest in a Steampunk/Victorian outfit again last night, so...
Anybody know anything about any of these particular patterns or vendors...
Laughing Moon #109, men's frock coats vest
Folkwear #222, set
Anybody interested in embroidery transfers (Woman's Day magazine inserts, Gerek
recognized them, his mom got them too) crochet patterns (all Alice Brooks)
from the 50's early 60's? Almost none of it is dated, but he used the
transfers to teach himself embroidery when he was around 7 or 8
wow, the Lithuanian is GREAT! I poked around on-line a little and found these,
among others... mostly 19thC. oh well. enjoy.
chimene
Erte at: http://www.amazon.com/Erte-Glittered-Wall-Calendar-2011/dp/B0040YSI9C
Costume Society of Ontario: http://costumesociety.ca/wordpress/
Lacis
well, a wool lining won't exactly keep you DRYER in the rain, but you won't
freeze when it does soak through! Wool's insulating qualities are not affected
by wetness, and it does take longer to soak through wool than many other
fabrics, so two layers would extend the time you have until the
not due to be on until Sunday night, the 24th, here in Oregon, the first one...
Study in Pink. It's been set up in the recorder for several days now! We
enjoyed the Downey/Law movie of last year, a lot; otherwise Jeremy Brett is our
fav' (right, except for the Private Life of SH movie, 1970,
umm, the link to an image didn't come across??
chimene
On Oct 20, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Heather Rose Jones wrote:
With the caveats that artistic representations aren't always intended to
represent actual clothing construction, and that representations of clothing
decoration are sometimes
It could be a form of minotaur? See the last illustration on this page:
http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=abbottbook=richard2story=anne
Extremely Victorian drawing style! and apparently from a Victorian era
children's history book. A couple really look like bull's horns, and my
I agree, the Diana stuff is probably your highest probability. I'd vote for
the 1814 book next, myself. Have fun!!!
chimene
On Aug 18, 2010, at 11:12 PM, penny1a wrote:
We are going to Antiques Roadshow Saturday in DC. We have 9 am tickets. I
am so excited. We can bring four items. Is
I just looked up his webpage... http://www.tomtierney.com/index.htm He's in
his 80's by now, majority of his career he was a fashion artist for various
large east coast department stores (in the 50s-70s). The paper doll books were
a late development.
There's nothing in his bio that
I'm wondering if I've gotten knocked of the list somehow??? Or is it just
Pennsic time? The last post I can track down is ICG Archives from Aug 5
(Thurs).
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thanks much all! (from the foot of the Valley of Death -- no, really, that's
what the Indians called the Willamette Valley, pre-whites, because of the grass
pollen! or maybe not)
On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Betsy Marshall wrote:
DFW (home of Il Papa Gunthar (currently on sabbatical to
umm, as a former 4-H-er from back when rocks were soft ... it MIGHT
be possible that the green horse barding was judged higher for
reasons such as:
MAYBE the young lady in pink did her own machine sewing? MAYBE the
two-part green body draping was more complicated? MAYBE the
full-head
Hi Jill
oh my gosh! my husband remembers his grandmother's seed cake too
(in BC, before he was about 10), and we've never been able to find a
recipe for one like he remembers (small seeds and no liquorice
tasting ones, he can't abide liquorice). most we've found include
anise, fennel or
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