That sounds intriguing. Please do post about it. There still a few of us
kicking around. I was around when the list was young so I really want this
list to keep going.
Happy holidays to all!
Cheers
Danielle
> To: h-cost...@indra.com
> From: catherine.wal...@cherryfield.me.uk
> Date: T
Heck, yeah... Mouse proof underwear? Do tell. ☺☺☺
Dede
> I found a reference to a lady's "mouse proof" underwear, which piqued my
> curiosity, but I hesitated to post about it because the list had been so
> quiet lately. _
West Village Studio
www.workroombuttons.com
I'm here -- but my first post saying so (from an alternate address by mistake)
was rejected.
On 12/17/2015 12:17 AM, Carol Kocian wrote:
Hi all,
Is h-costume still going? I’m trying to change my e-mail address for it, but
the link below does not work.
Thanks!
-Carol
I'm here. Still like to see what's posted. I'm not on Facebook.
Kate Pinner
Costume & Scenic Design
Tech. Coord., Kelsey Theatre, MCCC
609-570-3584
pinn...@mccc.edu
From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [h-costume-boun...@indra.com] on behalf of
Robin N
I have been getting the monthly reminders from indra.com, but I have to admit I
don't read them.
I also have something to share--this is based on the paper I gave at the Jane
Austen Society of North America's annual general meeting in Louisville in
October.
http://www.jasna.org/persuasions/
On 12/17/2015 09:38 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote:
I have been getting the monthly reminders from indra.com, but I have to admit I
don't read them.
I also have something to share--this is based on the paper I gave at the Jane
Austen Society of North America's annual general meeting in Louisville
I'm still here too. I don't do much sewing but am still involved in
historical reenactment.
Kate Bunting
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Catherine Olanich Raymond <
ca...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
> On 12/17/2015 09:38 AM, annbw...@aol.com wrote:
>
>> I have been getting the monthly reminders from in
Thanks for letting me know you are all here.
Monica Spence
-Original Message-
From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Robin Netherton
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 9:31 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still goi
I'm also here. You all predate me but I've been around for years and years.
I've noticed that h-costume and h-needlework have been quiet. I don't do
much on FB so I'm glad to see some of us are still here.
LynnD
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:48 AM, Kate Bunting
wrote:
> I'm still here too. I don't
Very interesting article, Ann! Thanks!
Sharon C.
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of annbw...@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 6:39 AM
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going?
I hav
You're welcome!
I suppose people could say what they are working on.
Right now I'm working on switching things to a new e-mail address. :-)
So, the url below doesn't do anything. I suppose I could try the sub and
unsub options. Does anyone have the info for that?
I tried "help" but the message
I just finished a new dress for Dickens Fair, which ends this weekend. I bought
it partially made, from a friend, and fitted and embellished it.
Sharon
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of aqua...@patriot.net
Sent: Thursd
On 12/17/2015 12:36 PM, aqua...@patriot.net wrote:
You're welcome!
I suppose people could say what they are working on.
I am in theory working on learning sprang so I can make myself a hair
net suitable for early period costume, but I haven't done anything since
making myself a sprang fra
Im still here, too. There's a 1913 evening gown on my dressmakers dummy
that's destined for a NYE party if I can get 'er done.
--cin
Cynthia Barnes
cinbar...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 10:03 AM, Catherine Olanich Raymond <
ca...@thyrsus.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/17/2015 12:36 PM, aqua...@p
I'm here, too, but not riding my current horse sidesaddle, which was the reason
I joined : to learn about correct ways to reproduce historical riding habits.
Susan
On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:48 AM, Kate Bunting wrote:
> I'm still here too. I don't do much sewing but am still involved in
> histori
Still here too, lurking but haven't been sewing much lately.
- Megan
Sent from my iPhone
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:05 PM, Lynn Downward wrote:
>
> I'm also here. You all predate me but I've been around for years and years.
>
> I've noticed that h-costume and h-needlework have been quiet. I don
I'm still around but I do most of my costume stuff on FB these days. I'd be
happy if this list perked up a bit. I've been here since '97.
Karen
Happy Connecting. Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S® 5
Original message
From: Megan McHugh
Date: 12/17/2015 12:13 PM (
Now that's a party I would like to attend!
Terry
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Cin
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 1:10 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going?
Im still here, too.
I think I've been here that long too (mid 90s)--mostly pn FB these days as
the list is so quiet now.
Katy
On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:40 PM, penhalion wrote:
>
>
> I'm still around but I do most of my costume stuff on FB these days. I'd
> be happy if this list perked up a bit. I've been here sinc
I'm still here and have been since h-costume started. I am not sewing
any garments because I have to make all the drapes for a
5,000-square-foot house my husband and I bought in June and have not
moved into yet. (Not to mention a lot of time-consuming stuff like
picking out paint colors and Ar
Have you heard of www.spoonflower.com?
It's a site where you can design your own fabric or choose from thousands of
others designed by others.
After you find your design, you can choose to have it made in one of over a
dozen fabrics. So you could have matching drapes and upholstery, for example.
I found the idea of mouse-proof underwear mentioned in - of all things -
a cookery book: Elisabeth Luard's "European Peasant Cookery, The Rich
Tradition", (Transworld Publishers Ltd., London, 1986), page 478,
'Buffalo Milk (Hungary)'. It is the introduction to a long quotation
from Ellen Brow
I get the impression that in the nineteenth century there was "private"
versus "public" needlework. Unmarried young women, at least, tended to
do mending and make underclothes (shirts fell into that category) only
within the family (when no callers were expected) or at most, only in
front of i
I've heard of Spoonflower many times, and I'm staying firmly away from
it. Their fabrics are not supposed to be very fast and some windows get
a lot of sun. After going to all this trouble I want the drapes to last
as many years as possible. Anyway, I don't want printed cotton drapes
unless the
Makes sense. That's what I do in my sewing circle--bring the nice stuff to
work on and leave the ugly stuff at home.
Terry
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Lavolta Press
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 2:23 PM
To:
What if you lined them? That's what I do with my drapes; the lining takes the
UV beating, not my fashion fabric.
-Original Message-
From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Lavolta Press
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 11:27 AM
To: Historical
Had taken a hiatus to write, but I did make a doctor's coat for my 5 yr old GD
for Christmas. It is based on the one Doc McStuffins wears, and I used my
machine embroidery letters to put her name on it.
Ann Wass
-Original Message-
From: aquazoo
To: Historical Costume
Sent: Thu, Dec
Yeah, well, I've looked into Spoonflower and all I'd get is
cheap-looking garment-weight cottons that fade fast. The drapes will
receive plenty of light from other windows in the rooms, so lining
doesn't solve the whole problem. I'm looking for silks (or at least
really good synthetic equivale
You are probably mostly right. However, Rachel Van Dyke did write once of
taking her "bundles" of mending down when a friend called and so had one bundle
less at the end of the visit. Of course, even those clothes in the bundle that
needed mending may not have been the most intimate ones, or, as
I think the question is who a woman wanted (or needed) to impress, with
both her fine needlework skills, and with the evidence that she had
sufficient leisure to devote to those instead of mending and plain sewing.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 12/17/2015 12:13 PM, annbw...@aol.c
Having heard Ann's talk at the JASNA AGM, I can confirm that it was
excellent in person too!
I'm still here too. I haven't been doing much sewing lately, aside from
making a chemisette to go with my Regency day dress this fall; most of
my creative energies these days are focused on knitting d
Frances:
The Whole 9 Yards fabric store in Portland had a great selection of Art
Nouveau and Arts and Craft type drapery textiles last time I was in there.
The good news is no sales tax in Oregon, the bad news, the store is in
Oregon. They do shipping.
http://w9yards.com/
(503) 223-2880
Mon -
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 l
Oh, no doubt about that. I was looking more at making and mending, not fine
needlework. I admit that is a whole other category, and it could be that some
of the generic "sat at work" references were, as you say, fine needlework. But
there were plenty of references to specific projects to clothin
Thanks, I just emailed them.
Fran
On 12/17/2015 12:56 PM, Agnes Gawne wrote:
Frances:
The Whole 9 Yards fabric store in Portland had a great selection of Art
Nouveau and Arts and Craft type drapery textiles last time I was in there.
The good news is no sales tax in Oregon, the bad news, the sto
I'm here. :-) I've been taking time off sewing to write, too.
Love, love the mouse-proof garment idea!
Happy sewing,
Deb Salisbury
The Mantua-Maker
Quality Historical Sewing Patterns
www.mantua-maker.com
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h-costume
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
On 12/17/2015 02:22 PM, Catherine Walton wrote:
I found the idea of mouse-proof underwear mentioned in - o
On 17/12/2015 22:28, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
Oh - sorry: I missed the ambiguity.
I hope I haven'
>
> I am still here. I have been waiting for a long term house guest to move
> out (it is happening this weekend!) so I can un-clutter my beautiful sewing
> room and get back at it! I have been sewing in little spurts but the
> projects have been mostly modern, albeit with wool and linen!
>
Sg
Maybe bloomers tied closed at the bottom so mice couldn't run up her legs?
I'd have also gotten a cat.
;-)
-Original Message-
From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Catherine Walton
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2015 2:42 PM
To: Historical Costu
On 12/17/2015 05:42 PM, Catherine Walton wrote:
On 17/12/2015 22:28, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
Ah, I understand now. I thought that "mouse-proof" underwear was
underwear that wouldn't be eaten by mice. But apparently Miss
Browning's underwear were meant to mouse-proof the wearer.
Oh -
On 12/17/2015 05:56 PM, Sharon Collier wrote:
Maybe bloomers tied closed at the bottom so mice couldn't run up her legs?
I'd have also gotten a cat.
;-)
I agree, but it's possible Miss Browning needed her long bloomers
because she was traveling to places where the accommodations were...dodgy.
Another one here— I am NOT on FB very often, finding it too much of a
signal-to-noise issue.
==Marjorie Wilser
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 6:34 AM, Kathryn Pinner wrote:
>
> I'm here. Still like to see what's posted. I'm not on Facebook.
>
> Kate Pinner
>
> Costume & Scenic Design
>
> Tech. Coord
Still here. :)
Franchesca
-Original Message-
From: "Deb Salisbury, Mantua-Maker"
Sent: 12/17/2015 1:37 PM
To: "h-cost...@indra.com"
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Who's still here?
I'm here. :-) I've been taking time off sewing to write, too.
Love, love the mouse-proof garment idea!
Happy
Huh? What? Did somebody say something?
-C.
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From: "Historical Costume"
To:"Historical Costume"
Cc:
Sent:Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:17:40 -0500
Subject:[h-cost] Is h-costume still going?
Hi all,
Is h-costume still going? I’m trying to change my e-mail address
for it, bu
I suppose people could say what they are working on.
As soon as I can get free for the holidays I have a 1929 dress (great cotton
printed sateen with double bias tape trim) and felt cloche hat to make. I'm
doing a historical presentation the first week of February on Eddie and
Sugar Lou's
From: Carol Kocian
To: Historical Costume
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 01:17:40 -0500
Reply-To: Historical Costume
Message-ID:
Subject: [h-cost] Is h-costume still going?
Hi all,
Is h-costume still going?
Sadly, I'm mostly GAFIAted from costuming in general, and historical
costuming in partic
I'm still around, though I've been neglecting my email for a while.
---
Joan Jurancich
On 12/17/2015 03:39 PM, franchesca.ha...@gmail.com wrote:
> Still here. :)
>
> Franchesca
>
> -Original Message-
> From: "Deb Salisbury, Mantua-Maker"
> Sent: 12/17/2015 1:37 PM
> To: "h-cos
Hi all,
I'm still here. I get fed up with facebook, and rarely with email lists, so
happy to see people.
Since you're all here ... I've just gotten interested in english smocks
(18th - 19th c ones) and was debating making one. I've requested a bunch of
books from the library, and this ques
Hah, I like plain sewing for events. Darning. Mending— unpretentious stuff to
prove to the general public that it IS possible to do the job neatly and make
things last!
==Marjorie Wilser
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Terry wrote:
>
> Makes sense. That's what I do in my sewing circle--bri
As a fellow knitter I’d be very interested to know about your designs. Do you
have a Rav name?
==Marjorie Wilser
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 12:40 PM, Emily Gilbert wrote:
>
> Having heard Ann's talk at the JASNA AGM, I can confirm that it was excellent
> in person too!
>
> I'm still here too. I
Cats are, of course, not so easy to travel with. Miss Browning was on a
journey, as I thought from the quoted text.
==Marjorie Wilser (who routinely travels with 2 cats. . . but never easily!)
> On Dec 17, 2015, at 2:56 PM, Sharon Collier wrote:
>
> Maybe bloomers tied closed at the bottom s
Mine— alas, still stored. I miss her.
However, were she out to play, she’d have her choice of several large hand knit
lace shawls. I have spent a lot of enjoyable time knitting lace the last few
years. It has distracted me from doing a lot of sewing.
Since SCA-period groups are my only local c
Mine would be wearing a hand-sewn man's Viking tunic and a woman's Viking coif.
I'm doing some detailed embroidery on the coif for a friend who has had breast
cancer this year.
Magge/Genie
> On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Marjorie Wilser wrote:
>
> Mine— alas, still stored. I miss her.
>
> H
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