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From: Kathryn Parke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 11:20 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] elizabethan dress trim question
Anybody else finished the new Harry Potter yet? Yowser!
KP
Me!! Finished it by 12
I'm at Chapter 9. Yowser is right!
Obligatory costume content: Did Elizabethans use hatpins?
Arlys
On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 20:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Kathryn Parke
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It's not just his term:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionaryva=ouch
Anybody else finished
KP wrote:
It's not just his term:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionaryva=ouch
Very cool. A new, accurate, but obsolete, word.
Thanks,
-Helen/Aidan
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From: Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, July 17, 2005 0:51 am
Subject: Re: [h-cost] elizabethan dress trim question
Yup. In one straight shot, this morningalthough I did get a
couple
of chapters into it last night, after I walked home from the
bookstore.
(What can I say
: Re: [h-cost] elizabethan dress trim question
I'v been at my sister in law's place and we bought the book on sat at
sometime in around 12pm, but i have only got about an chapter read as the
little ones (7 and 4 year old) keep wanting me to read it to them when i
pick up the book. it is torture
Just you wait, 'enry 'iggins, just you wait!
It get more yowser the farther into the book you go, which would go a
long way to explaining why I read it straight through.
--sue (Ravenclaw '78)
Cynthia J Ley wrote:
I'm at Chapter 9. Yowser is right!
Obligatory costume content: Did
At 07:14 AM 7/14/2005, you wrote:
And where on earth would one find the jewellery?
There is a company in England that makes pewter replicas of Tudor jewelry
(and other jewelry things, spoons, collars, etc.), and he notes that he
makes custom pieces as well.
http://www.tudorjewels.com/
At 07:27 AM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
The layers go:
brooch pin: Spotlight (25NZc each)
filigree brass bit: Spotlight ($NZ1.75 each)
bracelet plaque with gem : e Thing (like a dollar store) ($NZ3 for each
bracelet with 6 or more useable plaques)
snip lots of great info
Wow, thanks so much for
At 11:36 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote:
Be aware that Steve Millingham's pieces are very, very heavy, being pewter
castings. I have worked with his jewellery, and in fact some of his Anne
Boleyn and Henry Vlll pieces were originally designed for a customer of
mine. You could also try
At 08:18 PM 7/15/2005, you wrote:
I agree that Steve Millingham's work is really fabulous but if your budget
doesn't stretch that far look at http://www.sapphireandsage.com/index.html
especially the portrait reproduction section, whilst these are not exact
replicas (as she doesn't make her own
Kimiko wrote:
I also need ouches or something similar for the hats I am working on
OK, I'll bite- what are ouches?
-Helen/Aidan
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At 06:15 PM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
Kimiko wrote:
I also need ouches or something similar for the hats I am working on
OK, I'll bite- what are ouches?
-Helen/Aidan
That's what the creator (Steve Millingham) of the jewelry replicas calls
dress jewels (ouches) . I am not sure why
http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/Images/colourpics/8486.jpg ? And do
OOh! I've never seen that painting before! Do you have more information
about it?
http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/main.htm
Yet another painting question. While I was cruising this web site, I found
another
It's not just his term:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionaryva=ouch
Anybody else finished the new Harry Potter yet? Yowser!
KP
Kimiko Small [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 06:15 PM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
Kimiko wrote:
I also need ouches or something similar for the hats I am
On Saturday 16 July 2005 11:20 pm, Kathryn Parke wrote:
[snip]
Anybody else finished the new Harry Potter yet? Yowser!
Yes, I have and yes, Yowser! indeed. And if we say more we'll likely be
lynched--and not just because it's grossly off-topic. :-)
--
Cathy Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So
Kimiko wrote:
I also need ouches or something similar for the hats I am working on
OK, I'll bite- what are ouches?
-Helen/Aidan
That's what the creator (Steve Millingham) of the jewelry replicas calls
dress jewels (ouches) . I am not sure why he calls them that, as in I
haven't
At 08:35 PM 7/16/2005, you wrote:
Steve Millingham got the word from my customer who got it from me, who got
it from Annie the Pedlar who did the research for my Elizabeth figure. I
imagine she has sources for it, as she did a great deal of research before
making the jewellery for me.
Suzi
I
Yup. In one straight shot, this morningalthough I did get a couple
of chapters into it last night, after I walked home from the bookstore.
(What can I say? I'm Auld. I fell asleep! ;o)
Wow, what a book. Hope we don't have to wait two years for the next one.
OCC: I'm thinking of an
The picture is on my renaissance dress diary page and I've linked to
from http://www.flg.es/ficha.asp?ID=8486
and unfortunately its the only picture I can find. Janet Arnold has it
in black and white in her book.
Cheers, Aylwen
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Hi, I'm feeling lazy, don't feel like getting out the tape measure, its
12:12am here in Australia - maybe one of you on the list has this info
in your head - please don't go to any lengths - otherwise I should be
the one doing the work grin - but approx. how much length of trim do
you think I
The wise acre answer to that is, how much can you afford? For my Elizabethans I
have stopped buying trim in anything less than 10 yard batches and prefer to
buy the trim in 20 to 30 yard lengths. As the portrait doesn't show what is
happening at the hem (do I count as a true 16th century
Greetings,
A friend and I did a set of 1590s spanish court clothing for the King and Queen
of the Midrealm a year or so and we went through easily 100 yards of trim. You
could conservatively estimate 50 yards of trim for this dress and still not put
as much trim on as you could. I have
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