On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Kass McGann
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I was referring to the discussion about the 15th century armholes as
illustrated in Houston and the Jeu de Hache pictures. They just make so
much sense to me!
Kass
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/
Not surprised
Why do you people have to have a discussion that I'm really interested
in and would love to jump feet first into with a ridiculously long
illustrated post, at a time when I have so much work I have to do
instead that at 1 am, I still have many hours worth of work to do
before I can sleep?
What area? I've got tons from the continent, but very little (other
than the occasional royals) for England.
-E House
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have web sites, or recommendations as to where I can find
pictures for this period. One
I'll give you a quick general run-down; I haven't got it in me right
now to look up all the documentation. Hopefully this'll give you a
good starting point. I'm guessing you're interested in English styles,
so I'll try to slant it that way, but I'll have to refer heavily to
continental styles
Ahh, with Margaret you're in a bit of luck:
http://tudorhistory.org/people/margaret/marsketch.jpg
From what you've said, I think that what I wrote about English
fashions pretty much carries over, especially if you're dealing with
Margaret's court.
-E House
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Mary mary_m_haselba...@yahoo.com wrote:
Please help save my sanity. I saw a website about a year ago about a 13th
century
Spanish burial of a young girl. She had on a yellow silk overdress with blue
horizontal
stripes.
I don't know this website, but I
Well, I can't resist hawking my mother's book:
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Bolivian-Highland-Weaving-Traditional/dp/0823002640
since the Bolivians make extensive use of the backstrap loom (and
similar adaptations, along with other interesting primitive looms).
The book focuses more on what's woven
They do work well; they just have different properties than other
types of boning. Zip/cable ties provide much lighter support and
stiffening than steel of the same thickness. They bend more easily,
which makes them ideal for the areas of a corset where you want the
corset to shape itself to the
Kimiko got it! Tudor Costume and Fashion by Herbert Norris, p. 430.
Google books has a preview copy of it online:
http://snipurl.com/cy2vn -or-
http://books.google.com/books?id=ynMUvGdHZhUC
Well, they call it a preview, but it seems to be almost the whole
book; just missing a page or two here
I love this period--been doing a lot of research on it, and saving a
lot of images. They're on a different computer and I'm too lazy to
walk all the way upstairs, though, so I'll make do down here...
WWI in the Netherlands is a bit general: there are a lot of changes in
fashion during those
PS--a few minutes with Google or the American Memory section of the
Library of Congress website should help you find plenty of silent
movie footage from the era.
One thing to watch out for (or perhaps take notes on--you could use it
for your costuming choices) is the fact that the filmmakers were
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Becky Rautine zearti...@hotmail.com wrote:
It might even be worth something to them.
I must admit, the Cash in the Attic watcher in me saw dollar signs.
If I owned this scrapbook, though, I don't think I'd be able to part
with it... thanks so much for
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Michelle Plumb mpl...@wideopenwest.com wrote:
Wah! I wanna see all those lovely films but I live in Michigan!
Ditto, except I'm in Vermont! (And strongly dislike California,
having lived there twice.) But hey, there's 4 silent movies on TCM
tonight...
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 10:15 PM, ladybeanofbun...@aol.com wrote:
I don't know if any of you have ever come across these, but on one of my
period gowns from the 1880's the bodice closes with little black hooks and
eyes that are quite unsual, and hard to explain, but the hook slides over
and
Wow, this is one of the very very few celebrity retro-wannabe dresses
I've ever liked:
http://snipurl.com/fy932
-E House
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Well, yeah. I was more quoting the article than dating the gown--the
movie it was inspired by(? or a costume from?) is supposed to be
1920s. Either way, it doesn't look like it's supposed to be a repro
to me--it looks inspired by.
I do see that silhouette in films of the very late 20s, though.
When I was around 16 or 17, I made my first bust supporting fitted
gown. It was made out of some sort of slightly drapey wanna-be-linen
cotton fabric with the most spectacularly obnoxious retro print I
could find--and this being the height of the grunge era, I cannot
begin to describe how much I
So, my desperate search for a specific print turned up a gem:
http://www.spoonflower.com
where you can design your own fabric. Right now you can only get it
printed on either quilting fabric or light-weight upholstery fabric,
but I have a feeling that a lot of people here could make great use of
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Zuzana Kraemerova
zkraemer...@yahoo.com wrote:
Price: pattermanikg fee: 10$ per cm**2 (you pay for the size of one pattern
that is to be repeated on the fabric.)
Wow, you know, this just suddenly put the whole medieval textile
industry into perspective for me,
I'm terribly interested, but I probably won't be able to afford it
until fall/winter. I'd be happy to design several dozen patterns that
I want as soon as I have a speck of spare time, though! =}
-E House, who just spent her fabric budget for the year on the most
recent-but-one Adobe software
Ooo, lots of options there! If you were to use a bright, saturated
blue, then yeah, you'd go purple. Or purplish, or purpler. If you
were to use a dark blue with a lot of black to it, like a navy, you'd
get something along the lines of a plum color, which could pass for
burgundy. If you were
Ok, here's a challenge for the list's imagination--maybe you can help
me out with a little thought experiment.
Let's say that the whole c1000 Vinland expedition thing resulted in a
viable colony; one that actually got along pretty well with the
indigenous people (Skraelings) yet stayed in contact
I can definitely see that typical colonial reaction of anything from
the homeland being better, but sheer scarcity would surely lead the
colonists to make use of what's around them. I'm also thinking,
though, about the many types of native clothing that European
frontiersmen adopted, and how
Everyone, please feel free to use this idea! I'd really love to see
what someone other than me is picturing. =}
-E House
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ann Catelli elvestoor...@yahoo.com wrote:
Whatever your conclusions--draw them up quickly send them in to the Future
Fashion Folio for
2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows kay...@gmail.com:
And I was thinking how they would look by the 21st century.
[snip]
I'm aware of minor differences between modern dress (mostly having to
do with the level of formality people consider appropriate for
everyday things) but yeah, I'm picturing the modern
Well, I'm interested both in the modern day effects of a successful
Vinland colony, and--since it's my favorite clothing era--in 14thC and
15thC Vinland fashions! But I'll take anything I can get. =}
-E House
2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows kay...@gmail.com:
Assuming some influence from both sides of
2009/9/29 Käthe Barrows kay...@gmail.com:
Hmm. Within a couple of centuries regular trade should have been
established. And fur would be a major export to Europe.
I'm sure that the parts of Europe where it was forbidden to hunt deer
would have loved all that imported deerskin! Although maybe
I _think_ the Skraelings wore animal skins; the Inuit the Norse met
did. There were bighorn sheep in the Rockies, but that's probably a
bit far for an early colony! So yeah, good point; without importing
some sheep or bringing in some flax seed (how easy is it to grow flax
from seed?) they would
2009/9/30 Käthe Barrows kay...@gmail.com:
The Mexican natives (Aztec, Maya, etc.), and those south of them
(Inca), wove of something like wool - goat? mountain sheep? - pre
European conquest.
The Inca used llama, alpaca, and vicuña! A weaving industry started
to appear in the area around
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kim Baird kba...@cableone.net wrote:
However, once they learned to weave from the Vikings, who knows what they
might have created? Look what the Navajo did once they got some sheep.
Right now, Canada is by far the biggest producer and exporter of flax,
so I bet
Yeah, I rechecked my source, and apparently it's flax _for linseed
oil_ that y'all are the biggest producer/exporter of. I think you
should do something about that =}
-E House
On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Audrey Bergeron-Morin
audreybmo...@gmail.com wrote:
Right now, Canada is by far
Well, this is a first for me... I washed some brand new natural
colored cotton coutil, and burgundy spots popped up all over it.
Looks like some dye powder got on it before it was shipped to me, and
now I'm stuck wondering: does dye remover weaken cotton? I've got a
bunch of the stuff sold by
Press f...@lavoltapress.com wrote:
Why bother with dye remover? Personally, I'd just dye the fabric some color
darker than the spots. Burgundy or purple sounds ideal.
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on historic costuming
http://www.lavoltapress.com
Elena House wrote:
Well, this is a first
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Lavolta Press f...@lavoltapress.com wrote:
Or else maybe replace the flawed fabric with one guaranteed not break out in
spots?
I can but hope...
-E House
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Traci tr...@crimsonvision.net wrote:
I found my velvet at a small private store (not a chain and not online) in
the fabric district near me (Dallas)
As someone who has tons of family in and around Dallas, I'd like very
much to know more about this small private
Rather than shaving the seam allowances, I leave out the seam
allowances entirely (well, ok, maybe a teeny allowance--whatever it
takes to keep the sinew from pulling through). Then I push the fur
away from the edges, put the pieces together fur to fur, and
whip-stitch by hand. (Don't pull the
Wikipedia has a decent little pictorial glossary of hat styles,
although some of their definitions don't necessarily match up with
modern usage. (Beanies of the propeller type, for example, are not
what you're likely to find for sale when you shop for beanies on the
interweb...)
I've had to learn way more about copyright law than I ever wanted
because I got into producing royalty free stock illustrations for an
international company. Dealing with the copyright side of my work
often takes much more time than the actual work.
Since it is a truly international company,
I haven't done anything about garb, but I was able to write my fabric
stash into my homeowner's insurance, which was definitely a relief.
For the garb, I think you might need to focus on replacement cost--if
you were to hire someone else to re-make these for you, what would
their total charge be?
Okay, I was about to post a what on earth are you people talking
about post, but several minutes with google and my DVR answered that!
For anyone else who didn't already know what they were talking about
but is interested, it's a BBC series that will air on PBS starting Oct
24 at ...as
Mine is only about 5 years old, but did take on the shape of its cover
pretty thoroughly even in that short time... and since I made the
cover lace on rather than zip on, it also had some well-defined lace
impressions on it. When I took the cover off to wash it, I wound up
leaving it in my sewing
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 1:44 PM, snsp...@aol.com wrote:
You must not mix new cotton with old nor red cotton with white. p. 89
What does he mean by red cotton?
It seems reasonable that he means the same thing I mean when I sort my
clothes before doing the laundry... presumably there was some
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 4:14 PM, WorkroomButtons.com
westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com wrote:
By everyone, do you mean major pattern companies? Is PBS even on the
radar of the Big Three?
It's a BBC show, rather than just a PBS show--and it's a popular one!
Wouldn't surprise me if there's a bit of
I am reminded of an advertising pamphlet that I ran across at the LOC
American Memory website:
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A01/A0173/A0173-01-72dpi.html
from the late 19thC and which describes the evolution of the cut of
the sock, particularly the heel.
I'm not saying it's a
I've Liked it as well, and as you probably know, you're well over the
25 fan threshold by now. So, I tried searching for you, and learned
that while a search for Lavolta Press throws up a bunch of
completely irrelevant results, a search for Lavolta results in your
business page as the first hit.
Speaking of costume-related inheritances, I recently inherited my
93-year old grandma-in-law's sewing stuff--all of it, including some
stuff she probably should have thrown away 50 years ago! But since I
find old wooden bobbins with only a couple of feet of thread left on
them fascinating, I'm
I love very silly books featuring hideous Victorian hats. Who's the
author and what's the series?
-E House
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Jean Waddie
anne.montgome...@googlemail.com wrote:
Re hats: I'm reading a series of (very silly) books at the moment, set in
Victorian London, where the
Thank you both, and drat! Thanks to my kindle I am now hopelessly addicted.
-E House
On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Jean Waddie
anne.montgome...@googlemail.com wrote:
Yes indeed - the author is Gail Carriger.
On 01/05/2011 12:11, Genie wrote:
Oh, you're talking about the Stempunk/romance
Well, being somewhat familiar with the site in the caption at the
bottom of the image, I'd definitely view it with suspicion, as
evidenced by this:
http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/funny-pictures-history-disco-duck-what-manner-of-plainchant-be-this.jpg
from the same general
I need help with an image search! I'm looking for
illuminations/miniatures/tapestries of women in armor, c1330-1530.
Allegories, saints, whatever--the only realism I need in the image is
that it really be what people c1330-1530 thought a woman would look
like, wearing armor!
There's one 15thC
As a Vermonter (for at least one more winter) whose back porch door
has been completely taken over by bittersweet vines, I can tell you
that, while very pretty at the right time of year, it won't likely be
too pretty on Dec 29; even now, the berries on mine are already
falling off and shriveling
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Elena House exst...@gmail.com wrote:
I could swear I've run across several sets of
how-to-make-artificial-flowers instructions in Victorian ephemera of
the sort your characters might be likely to have run across, although
I'm not enough of a masochist to try
I watched an interview with Robert Downey Jr. when the first one came out,
and he made the excellent point that there actually was a great deal of
action in the SH stories... it was just written in a very glazed over sort
of way. They gave chase, or, After a struggle, they apprehended the
I missed the start of this thread, so apologies if this has already been
mentioned or doesn't really apply to what you asked!
However, if you want an old Bernina, I highly suggest an 830 Record
Electronic, which in spite of the name is pretty much mechanical, apart
from the fact that you do need
I wonder if the origin of this one lies with the word 'scarlet' rather than
'red'? Or, alternately, with kermes and cochineal, rather than madder?
Generally speaking, cross-culture and cross-era, a bride is going to wear
her fanciest dress, so it seems quite reasonable that luxury fabrics or
Recently, I was puttering around on the internet, following increasingly
unrelated links. You know, as one does. Anyway, I ran into several images
from the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. The catacombs date from the 2nd
to the 5th centuries, but what caught my attention were a couple of
I'm writing a novella set in 1887 with three teenage girls as the main
characters, and as a result I've been doing research into the slang pop
culture and so forth of the time period in New England. The 1880s are Not
My Era, and I've run across a term-and-a-half that confuse me.
Here's the
/watch?v=lP9PJsY5__4
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 7:00 PM, Elena House exst...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm writing a novella set in 1887 with three teenage girls as the main
characters, and as a result I've been doing research into the slang
pop
culture and so forth of the time period in New England
.
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 9:59 PM, Elena House exst...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks; lovely resources. I'm definitely familiar with the fedora as a
hat; I've just never heard of it as a hair styling technique before,
hence
my curiosity!
Thanks to Google books and the Ngram viewer (hugely useful
I'm going to vote post mortem as well, and not just from the appearance of
the child in the photo, but also from the story passed down with it--it
makes sense to me that the reason your grandmother was so eager to get
photos of her next child was because the only one she was able to get of
this
Heh, when you put 'spam' in the title, my gmail seems to automatically put
it in the spam folder, as it did with this thread. That might even
technically be irony! (I only saw rescued it because I was looking for
something else. Apparently when your business is named 'Ambitious Rubbish'
it
that - now I know
not to use spam in a subject line!
Emily
On 3/6/2015 12:47 PM, Elena House wrote:
Heh, when you put 'spam' in the title, my gmail seems to automatically put
it in the spam folder, as it did with this thread. That might even
technically be irony! (I only saw rescued
I'm still here, although taking a nice long break from sewing--I still
enjoy reading the list, though!
I've been away from my computer a lot lately (I also recently moved, from a
180 yr old house in Vermont to a 1 yr old apartment in TX; quite the
change) so the threads of the list have sort of
Hrm, thank you both--I'll check those ideas, but I suspect that school
photos won't show traveling clothing. Also, since the late 1880s is Not My
Period, I probably _won't_ be able to properly extrapolate what the back
would look like! :) The group setting doesn't really matter, but I'll
still
Okay, I have an overly specific search challenge/request for the list! I'm
looking for illustrations (of any sort, as long as they're primary or
really really accurate secondary sources) of what upper middle class girls
of 9, 15, and 19 years old would wear in the summer of 1887 as they're
http://mashable.com/2016/04/18/joan-of-arc-festival/
This is a collection of photos from the 1932 Joan of Arc festival
in Compiégne. The garb is both very nitpickable, and very awesome.
-E House
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Interesting piece! It's both right up my alley, and out of my area of
expertise.
I've spent a couple of decades collecting images of ads from about
1860-1970, so in that sense it's definitely my thing. I LOVE old
advertising/marketing/packaging. Frustratingly, though, just knowing when
the
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