I had heard about the fool's finger elsewhere online, and I remember smiling in
recognition when I read it in your book. It has made me not put rings on that
finger at faires, and I am trying to get my friends to do the same, but most
continue to do so.
By your comment of Mary QoS, I went and
I know of one full length portrait of Mary Queen of Scots, and I believe
I've seen a couple other examples (possibly German), but they're way
out-numbered. According the author of the book I mentioned, the middle
finger "is for fools", but he doesn't really say much else about it.
Although he does
Wow, my "learned" thing of the day! Went to my stash of
portraits-with-blackwork out of curiosity, and not one single middle-finger
ring - even on the folks wearing a ring on every other finger.
Amazing the things you never notice! :-)
Liadain
THL Liadain ni Mhordha OFO
"You get a wonderf
--- On Wed, 6/17/09, Maggie wrote:
> Just as a sidebar... notice that there are NO rings on the
> middle fingers.
> Look at portrait after 16th century portrait and this is
> what you find 90%
> of the time. and not just in England. People are almost
> never shown with a
> ring on a middle fing
Can you tell me more about the rings? I've never heard that. I've seen it but
never noticed.
Sincerely,
Rebecca Rautine
> Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:32:52 -0700
> From: maggi...@gmail.com
> To: h-cost...@indra.com
> Subject: Re: [h-cost] Black beads Princess Elizabeth image
>
> On Tue, Jun 1
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Becky Rautine wrote:
>
> All her rings match the ouches.
Just as a sidebar... notice that there are NO rings on the middle fingers.
Look at portrait after 16th century portrait and this is what you find 90%
of the time. and not just in England. People are almos
Jacquard is a type of Loom or of controlling the weaving on a loom. It was
invented in 1801 and makes the weaving of complex fabric like brocades less
time consuming.
There were precursors to it, too; the jacquard controller did not spring
full-grown from M. Jacquard's forehead.
The fabric
> The "OLD" Houses of Parliament were burnt-down in a catastrophic fire in
> the early 1840's - 1842, I think, - leaving only Westminster Hall from the
> older buildings.
> A.W.N. Pugin was the Architect who did most of the detail design for the
> "new" Houses of Parliament.
Came across this same
--- On Wed, 17/6/09, michaela de bruce wrote:
SNIPPED FOR BREVITY
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Elizabeth Walpole <
ewalp...@grapevine.com.au> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this is from the decoration in the British Parliament, there
> is a series of all the kings and queens of England and they
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Elizabeth Walpole <
ewalp...@grapevine.com.au> wrote:
> I'm pretty sure this is from the decoration in the British Parliament,
> there
> is a series of all the kings and queens of England and they all have a gold
> background and a caption underneath,
> I think it
I've documented the gown from start to now and hopefully to the end. I'll add
this information to the documentation of it. Thanks.
My cloth isn't red and gold but an orange-pinkish fabric with the same pattern
as that in the portrait. Jacquard or brocade... it looks very similar. Who
wouldn't
I had two light historical novels published back in the 70s, about the same
characters. The cover of the first gave an excellent interpretation of the hero
and heroine, but the second, by a different artist, simply copied a magazine
photo of a reenactor to represent him, including wrong hair col
I'm pretty sure this is from the decoration in the British Parliament, there
is a series of all the kings and queens of England and they all have a gold
background and a caption underneath,
I think it was done in the Victorian period but I don't know for sure.
Elizabeth
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