A long message but it helps me to take my mind off my worries...
Many thanks to everyone of you for your thoughts and prayers. We really need
all that we can get.
Elizabeth, you made a really good suggestion about sharing the extra costume
stashes. Please tell Stephen I really like his
Julie,
Ca just means about (abbreviation of the Latin circa).
Kate Bunting
Librarian and 17th century reenactor
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OMIGOSH! These are gorgeous...and the embroidered silk is to die for.
Can someone more knowledgeable about European currency give me an idea
Oh Penny, My prayers are to you and all of your family.
Mia in Charlotte, NC
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Dear Penny, As with everyone else on this list, my thoughts and prayers are
with you and your family. Having spent my entire life (all 70 years of it) in
Florida, I do know what you are going through. I was worried about my family
in Miami until I finally heard from them and they only got
Bjarne,
If you were to keep your clay pipe in a small wooden box, padded, would
that help prevent breaking?
liz young
Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote:
Dear Ann,
Thanks for this, i could have googled myself, but i hoped that somebody
knew about this.
Well then i could smoke a cigar then, when i
If you use snuff properly you should sneeze.
Cases for pipes are and were used ion the 18th century. Some are
rectanglar and hold tobacco as well, but many are shaped like the pipe
itself and worked in wood, silver, brass, tin, or iron. We also have at
least one 18th century Iron pipe in
Penny,
I love the idea of helping with rebuilding stashes and such. May I send some
as well?
Oh Penny, My prayers are to you and all of your family.
Mia in Charlotte, NC
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I agree, but I think we should wait a month or so until these
communities get back on their feet and have places to live, let alone
start a stash of fabric and such.
Penny, I hope you hear from all your family very soon and that they
are all well. Our check
to the Red Cross has already been sent
Penny,
Anything you need, let me know. I have several people I can call on to help.
Jodi
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Now, about that top point. Don't try to do it on the machine! Yes, it can
be done, but it requires a lot of finagling and can cause a lot of
frustration. Consider that the people who used this construction were
working by hand -- this was never designed to be done by machine. It's
much, much
Penny, I can't imagine what you are going through. Disaster has danced
near my family, but never landed as hard as it has on your own folk. My
thoughts are with you at this terrible time.
I am also very, very proud of you. Why? Your photos and films may be the
only ones taken of things now
After all, they made bustle gowns out of kimonos, y'know.
I'm sure you meant kimono fabric. There's hardly enough material in one
kimono to make a 2005 dress, let alone anything more voluminous.
Nope. I meant Kimonos...picked apart and re sewn. There's an example of
this very thing in the
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Cin wrote:
Now, about that top point. Don't try to do it on the machine! Yes, it can
be done, but it requires a lot of finagling and can cause a lot of
frustration. Consider that the people who used this construction were
working by hand -- this was never designed to be
I hand sew everything... and my gores are razor sharp. All it ever takes is
practice. As for no gores in the 13th century being sharp... Just how many
extant garments do we have to make that assumption on? I would personally
think that gores varied ... some pointy, some not.
YMMV,
Bridgette
At 01:51 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote:
The
shinto wedding kimono is pure white (shiromoku = pure white).
When did Japanese wedding gowns become pure white? Or is it Shinto only? My
mom was Buddhist, not Shinto.
My mother's wedding kimono is dark, almost black IIRC, both in her wedding
photos
I don't see any recent posts, so I wanted to tell everyone who read Penny's
long email yesterday that at 6 pm ABC News did a short piece on the town
named for her ancestor, Pass Christian. Penny said that no one had been able
to get to it and that it wasn't the sort of place that was shown on
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Marie Stewart wrote:
I hand sew everything... and my gores are razor sharp. All it ever
takes is practice. As for no gores in the 13th century being sharp...
Just how many extant garments do we have to make that assumption on? I
would personally think that gores varied
I've got 3 yards of 50 wide yellow linen that I'd like to make into a
liene for my husband. He's 6'3, 240 lbs - is there any way I can
squeeze a reasonably long (knee length) liente for him out of only 3
yards (any time period)?
I'm aware of the Reconstructing History pattern but I don't want to
I agree with Robin on the duplicating period techniques (or getting as close
as possible) is usually the best way to duplicate a period result. Modern
techniques are usually the result of technological process evolution, and
may come up with a result that is often easier to learn, or looks
At 05:45 PM 8/31/2005, you wrote:
I've got 3 yards of 50 wide yellow linen that I'd like to make into a
liene for my husband. He's 6'3, 240 lbs - is there any way I can
squeeze a reasonably long (knee length) liente for him out of only 3
yards (any time period)?
I'm aware of the Reconstructing
That being said, my hand sewn gores suck (ok, *I* think they suck). I
prefer the pointy gores because it's my personal opinion (based on ZERO
objective or statistical evidence) that they were more common. And I'll
keep doing them that way until I get them right :) My major problem is
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