[h-cost] book: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII

2006-10-02 Thread Beth and Bob Matney
I just got a note from the publisher that this is scheduled to be published May 2007. Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward. Maney Pub. (2006). Clothbound with full colour dustjacket, ca 384 pages with ca 150 bw and 30 colour illustrations. ISBN 1 904350 70 4.

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ I just got to it. Edlyn Cascio Michael wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try googling for the

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-02 Thread Susan Carroll-Clark
Greetings-- Cascio Michael wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not getting a site when I try googling for the main site. Help? Try this

Re: [h-cost] Drea Leeds site

2006-10-02 Thread Bella
Here you go: http://www.elizabethancostume.net/ Anabella Wake (aka dona Bella Lucia da Verona) The Realm of Venus http://realmofvenus.renaissancewoman.net/ - Original Message From: Cascio Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Sent: Monday, 2 October, 2006 8:35:04

RE: [h-cost] 15rh century embroidery site

2006-10-02 Thread otsisto
-Original Message- http://medieval.webcon.net.au/period_15th_c.html Which ones are your artwork? De The line drawings of the motifs on the Mammen page (10th c. Denmark). Heather Ah, I see. I remember the site that this info comes from. Could this person have mistaken the rendering

Re: [h-cost] need suggestions for campy 18th century costumes

2006-10-02 Thread Dawn
Allison wrote: Please and thank you: I need ideas from all you guys - any suggestions are welcome! Anyhoo - I'm thinking of having my women wear fishnets and dance trunks, and constructing some sort of pannier/skirt to tie around the waist. What movie am I thinking of (or play?) that had

[h-cost] APOLOGIES re OT....another Christmas Carol

2006-10-02 Thread Ruth Anne Baumgartner
Greetings all: Sorry to send the Dickens stuff to the whole list. I had been scrupulously replying individually to individual requests, but this morning, half-asleep, I got another requestI just hit reply and didn't check where the reply was going. I haven't received the reply

Re: [h-cost] book: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII

2006-10-02 Thread E House
- Original Message - From: Beth and Bob Matney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII by Maria Hayward. Maney Pub. (2006). Clothbound with full colour dustjacket, ca 384 pages with ca 150 bw and 30 colour illustrations. ISBN 1 904350 70 4.

[h-cost] book recomondation

2006-10-02 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Yesterday i had a meeting with a lady from Hamburg in Germany, whom i am making the new anglaise dress for. She gave me some wonderfull gifts. One of them, i would really recomend to read for those of you who loves the 18th century. Delany was one of the finest embroiderers of England, and she

Re: [h-cost] book recomondation

2006-10-02 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 17:09 02/10/2006, you wrote: Yesterday i had a meeting with a lady from Hamburg in Germany, whom i am making the new anglaise dress for. She gave me some wonderfull gifts. One of them, i would really recomend to read for those of you who loves the 18th century. Delany was one of the finest

Re: [h-cost] Re: Wikipedia as source

2006-10-02 Thread Lynn Downward
I agree with using Wikipedia as a jumping-off point. I put it right in line with R. Wilcox Turner and just above the Peacock and Tierney books, in that someone who doesn't quite know what they want can look through them and point to a silhouette and say, that's what I'm looking for. Then you go

Re: [h-cost] book recomondation

2006-10-02 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
Hi Bjarne. The 18th century isn't my area of interest, but the gifts that your client gave you sound amazing! Any chance that you might put pictures up of the needles (with a modern needle to compare it to) and of the pillow? I just *love* pretty pillows! :-) With regards, ailith -

Re: [h-cost] neat idea for those who draft

2006-10-02 Thread Saragrace Knauf
Ooh, will have to look for this...what do they look like? Do they have that typical black and white cardboard cover, or are they plastic covered - Original Message - From: Cynthia J Leymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

[h-cost] Dark (Darth?) Maul costume (OT?)

2006-10-02 Thread Saragrace Knauf
Hi all, I know think this may be a little OT - (not sure how old the movie is). I was wondering if any of you knew which Star Wars movie this character is in? My nephew wants to be him (it?) for Halloween. I wanted to rent the movie to see what he wears under his cape...wooo wooo! Thanks,

[h-cost] Re: Dark (Darth?) Maul costume (OT?)

2006-10-02 Thread Saragrace Knauf
Oooh, I found some stuff on him...I had looked before, but not seen this site. http://www.dmeb2.org/main/index.htmlhttp://www.dmeb2.org/main/index.html I'd still be interested in any additional stuff anyone knows...but better to take it off list...I think it can't count as historic since isn't

Re: [h-cost] book recomondation

2006-10-02 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
Hi, Yes i wouldnt mind post some pictures of the pillow cover, but i think you misunderstood me with the needle. I just ment, looking at the fine embroidery, that they must have used tiny tiny needles, to make it, much smaller than the needles we use today Bjarne -

Re: [h-cost] book: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII

2006-10-02 Thread Beth and Bob Matney
No Idea as yet. I'll post to the list when I find out more. Beth Matney At 01:00 PM 10/2/2006, you wrote: Any idea how much the book will cost? I'd like to put my name on the reserve list, but I don't want to feel obligated to buy a $200 book! -E House

[h-cost] RE: h-costume Digest, Vol 5, Issue 650

2006-10-02 Thread Catalina Elvira Osorio Lopez de Xerez
I don't suppose Amazon will be carrying this one? Catalina Sanguinem dumtaxat causam virtutis pendate Message: 1 Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:36:40 -0500 From: Beth and Bob Matney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [h-cost] book: Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII To: h-costume@mail.indra.com

Re: [h-cost] Dark (Darth?) Maul costume (OT?)

2006-10-02 Thread Catherine Olanich Raymond
On Monday 02 October 2006 1:42 pm, Saragrace Knauf wrote: Hi all, I know think this may be a little OT - (not sure how old the movie is). I was wondering if any of you knew which Star Wars movie this character is in? My nephew wants to be him (it?) for Halloween. I wanted to rent the movie

Re: [h-cost] neat idea for those who draft

2006-10-02 Thread Cynthia J Ley
They're the same size as the typical b w marbled ones, only the covers are black with white quadrille on the top half of the page and ruled on the bottom half. I don't know if they come in different colors. 100 sheets, 200 pages. Planning on using mine a lot. :-) Arlys On Mon, 2 Oct 2006

Re: [h-cost] neat idea for those who draft

2006-10-02 Thread Robin Netherton
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Cynthia J Ley wrote: They're the same size as the typical b w marbled ones, only the covers are black with white quadrille on the top half of the page and ruled on the bottom half. I don't know if they come in different colors. 100 sheets, 200 pages. I saw some at

Re: [h-cost] 15rh century embroidery site

2006-10-02 Thread Heather Rose Jones
On Oct 1, 2006, at 8:09 PM, otsisto wrote: -Original Message- http://medieval.webcon.net.au/period_15th_c.html Which ones are your artwork? De The line drawings of the motifs on the Mammen page (10th c. Denmark). Heather Ah, I see. I remember the site that this info comes

[h-cost] RE: mammen embroidery

2006-10-02 Thread otsisto
My curiosity is of the drawing in that of the faces. (Oh by the way found your site. :) ) http://heatherrosejones.com/mammen/index.html I don't know why but the I think the small faces are not faces. Your examples of why they would be faces are good. I guess I need to figure out why I don't think