Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-31 Thread E House
I don't know much more about it than what shows up on Amazon and on Oxbow, except that Robin Netherton asked the publisher about it, and heard that they're hoping to get it out by the end of the year. Hopefully it will be close to that, because I'm very impatient! Here's the Oxbow

Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-31 Thread Robin Netherton
On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, E House wrote, about Geoff Egan's new Tudor artifacts book: I don't know much more about it than what shows up on Amazon and on Oxbow, except that Robin Netherton asked the publisher about it, and heard that they're hoping to get it out by the end of the year. And now

Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-31 Thread Helen Pinto
Elena wrote: , in the neatest decorated paper box. The box has a great back-story. It's called a Mrs Yabe box and I learned the pattern from Barry Morentz, another calligrapher. He was studying paper-making in Japan for several months, and when he left, his landlady (Mrs Yabe) gave him a

Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-31 Thread purplkat
I just sent my Secret Santa what I had around the house. I haven't even gotten to making my first Tudor Bodice or even thinking of my 6 sets of Choli's from India that I want to make. I feel inadequate compared to you - you actually made a HAT!! I haven't done anything more complex than a

Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-30 Thread E House
I should have chimed in earlier: Helen Pinto sent me a lovely Christmas gift! A beautiful pair of earrings, some matching freshwater pearls, in the neatest decorated paper box. I'll have to take pictures; I can't possibly describe it. Thank you again, Helen! I'm still waiting on the rest

Re: [h-cost] Christmas presents

2005-12-30 Thread Kimiko Small
At 11:13 PM 12/30/2005, you wrote: I'm still waiting on the rest of my costume related gifts. One is this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/190199239X/104-2702716-3235141 Material Culture in London in an Age of Transititon: Tudor And Stuart Period Finds C. 1450-c. 1700 from Excavations at