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From: michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] source for 1700-1710 Mantua
The English mantua you refer to is in a book
called 18th Century Women's Costume at Blaise
Castle House by Helen Burnett
The English mantua you refer to is in a book
called 18th Century Women's Costume at Blaise
Castle House by Helen Burnett and Cleo Witt.
Printed by Bristol City Museum. However, the
mantua is dated c.1738-41. It still has its matching petticoat.
I just found my livejournal with my list of
michaela wrote:
I just found my livejournal with my list of extant early mantua (as opposed
to the very stylised later mantua) and found the book I had seen it in:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pinkdiamond/334570.html
Ooooh, more pictures, thank you!
Unfortunately the image on the
michaela wrote:
Oooh, do you have any info on the mantua in the SQA calendar? I'd love to
know more before bombarding museums with questions;)
The 2000 calendar says it's in the ROM, Toronto: Mantua, early 1700,
English or Dutch. Silk damask woven with exotic foliate motif. Museum
If it is a danish mantua you are reffering to, it has a pattern draft of
it
in: Ellen Andersen Moden i 1700 årene
I also made this mantua once in a green dupioni, as i could not afford
anything else at that time.
If someone wants, i could help with a pattern, only i must warn you about
the
Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
Hi,
I have not Blanche Paynes book, but i think i must have it, is it still
available?
It is out of print and has been for a very long time (the 1st edition
with diagrams) but you can find used copies online if you search on the
title.
If it is a danish
In a message dated 10/9/2005 8:52:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I specifically need this decade, and unfortunately Patterns of Fashion
doesn't have a dress of this cut.
But it DOES!
Vol. 1, 1660-1860 Pages 70 and 71.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But it DOES!
Vol. 1, 1660-1860 Pages 70 and 71.
Ah, thanks. Arnold was the first place I checked. Sigh, why did it have
to be stuck in the back instead of in chronological order like every
other garment in the book. :/
Dawn
In a message dated 10/10/2005 1:41:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sigh, why did it have
to be stuck in the back instead of in chronological order like every
other garment in the book. :/
*
That sneaky Janet!
Actually I think it's part
In a message dated 10/10/2005 1:41:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Vol. 1, 1660-1860 Pages 70 and 71.
Ah, thanks. Arnold was the first place I checked
I must add, that it is [painfully] obvious from her pattern this gown was
draped on a body or mannequin. No
Does anyone know of an available source that diagrams a woman's
dress from this period? (preferably online, but I'll take what I can
get)
I'm looking for a basic diagram of something like this:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/09/euwb/hob_1991.6.1a,b.htm
Someone diagrammed this gown!
Lavolta Press wrote:
Without checking the book, that looks like the dress diagrammed in the
first edition of Blanche Payne's /_History of Costume: From the Ancient
Egyptians to the Twentieth Century./_
The one in Payne is dated 1690, but you're right, it's cut the same.
Thanks.
Dawn
I didn't go that far back I was looking at 18th century. I did see the dress
on page 413 figure 434 and thought at fast glance that was it. But as it's
at the Copenhagen Museum that is unlikely.
On 10/9/05, Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Jacqueline Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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