Robin, I know that Italian garb isn't your regular focus of interest, but I have
a question about 2 paintings .
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giottino/pieta.jpg
http://www.wga.hu/art/g/giovanni/milano/birth.jpg
The first by Giottino was painted in 1365; the second by Giovanni da Milano was
also
http://www.earthlydelights.com.au/Images/colourpics/8486.jpg ? And do
OOh! I've never seen that painting before! Do you have more information
about it?
http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/main.htm
Yet another painting question. While I was cruising this web site, I found
another
Quoting Elizabeth Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michaela said
That's what it says;) (I put image information in the alt tags of
the thumbnails, so moving the cursor too quickly will not show it
up;) )
and I replies
Ah -- that's an IE only trick, I believe. Mozilla and Netscape (to
my
Quoting Susan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've seen in cartoons, and the like, pictures of an old style Laboratory
coat (white, high collar, has a flap front that closes with buttons on the
shoulder - tends to be slightly fitted).
Sounds like you're thinking about what I think of as a chef's jacket
Quoting Cynthia Virtue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Susan B. Farmer wrote:
Sounds like you're thinking about what I think of as a chef's jacket
Indra's sending things through in funny order again
Yeah I noticed that
It's not quite a chef's jacket. Those tend to have two rows of buttons
Quoting Cynthia Virtue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Mad science mouse:
http://www.research.usf.edu/cm/pics/mad_scientist.JPG
Oh, *that* jacket! I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh.
I'd think
that the chef's jacket would be a good place to start for making one though.
And would be dandy
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
the fact that it also wrinkles like crazy. Acetate, though, being
chemically
modified cellulose,
Thanks for the One More Thread. I didn't know that about acetate!
Yeah I recently read about this as I was doing a search on the history of
man made
Is there an online TOC to this journal (with page numbers)? My library
doesn't
have it (yet?), but I can ILL things . [The anglo-saxon book they have,
but it's out on loan to a Faculty member for a *year*]
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of
Quoting M Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
for Blood stains on Linen... put it in your mouth, and chew it out. I kid
you not.
Mari / Bridgette Linen worker for more than 20 years now.
I know that this seems counter-intuitive because many dye recipies call
for salt
to fix the dye -- but soak
Quoting Elizabeth Walpole [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 03:39 PM 8/26/2005, you wrote:
Belatedly, I want to thank everyone that responded to
these messages.
The future MIL has made her choice and really liked
the Florentine
-(http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/PLATE23AX.HTML) - so we
are going with that,
Hugs and prayers.
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, *somebody* wrote:
Good picture! Is that trim sewn down to act as a belt loop, do you think,
or just hanging over? (and is she carrying a baby, or playing a
bagpipe?!)
The trim is almost certainly the collar point hanging
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Greetings~
I am looking to make my daughter a coif embroidered like ones worn in the
15th and 16th century in England. I am planning to incorporate blackwork
surface embroidery as well as gold embellishment. I have run across
a particular
embroidery stitch
Quoting Cynthia Virtue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
McClure, Kate wrote:
The seventh image down on this page http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
-- that's the frame location, not the image you want us to look at.
Can you figure out the URL of the actual image?
You can right-click and select this
Quoting Penny Ladnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does anyone know the name of some software that will take a photo and
grid it for cross-stitch? I know there are people who will do this
if you mail them the photo. But I wonder if they are doing this in
some computer software or by hand.
There's a
Quoting Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Could someone explain what ric-rac is? It doesn't seem to be what I
understand. I have several cards of ric-rac braid I got in a sale,
and would use it to sew on to a garment for decoration. It was a very
popular trim in the mid 50's if I remember
Oh, yeah. Put me down, too.
Susan
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Quoting Kahlara [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
:-(wish there was something in the states like this! Took a peek
just out of curiosity and saw something that sounded like it might be
rather useful.
If you go to groups.yahoo.com and enter a search string of SCA recycle
4 local groups will come up.
Im about to send this book back to the UGA library (ya gotta love
InterLibrary Loan!). Not only does it have an enormous collection of
paintings that I've never seen before, it also has a picture of, well,
a sweater.
Figure cption reads Women's camicola or knitted jacket. First quarter
of
Quoting Beth and Bob Matney [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been thinking of adding:
Bronzino by Maurice Brock 360 pages Flammarion (November 16, 2002)
ISBN: 208010877
to my collection of portrait painters. Has anyone seen this book?
Beth
Don't know a thing about it, but it sounds like something
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The lower sleeves are deep maroon in most of the repros I have seen. It is
funny that so many color reproductions vary in quality from place to place.
Anybody ever see the real portrait up close and personal? And BTW, the lower
sleeves (which tie into
It was on one of my garb lists that we were discussing rectanguolar
construction techniques for making a gown for a large busted woman.
There were extra gores down the sides (at least from the bottom of the
armsye to the waist) in addition to the skirt gores to allow for the
extra flesh. Does
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Donna--
Do you have a photo link for the painting? (Bronzino's A Daughter of Matteo
Sofferoni)
I don't think I am familiar with it.
I've got black velvet and gold silk to make one out of.
Danielle Nunn-Weinberg wrote:
Does anyone have a record of these threads or a good tip that they
can email me off list since I had an encounter with an exploding
bottle of salad dressing (wearing new clothes, naturally), and I
need to deal with a large blob of olive oil right in the middle
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
FYI, there is a Italian (I think) style (a bit earlier then the time
of the Tres Riche Hours) that has what looks like circles attached
to/acting as the cuffs of the gothic fitted dress's sleeves. There is
a picture in _Parades et Parures_ by Odile Blanc. (it's
Quoting Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
I was thinking about wishing a light table for christmas and
birthday. I have birthday in january and ususally wishes bigger
things, and then combine the gifts this way.
I was looking at a light table in a shop, and i wondered if any of
you
Quoting WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anyone know Susan? Her secret Sanat gift is waiting for her at the
post office. I am unable to contact her via phone or email.
I'm here! I haven't seen a card from the Post Office, but will check it
out in the morning. Thanks for letting me know.
Quoting WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have created two photo albums. One is a place to put a picture of
your secret santa gift...the other is a place to put a picture and
some information about yourself. I will be working on adding my
stuff later today...gotta go out and try to buy a
IL got two dress forms -- a nifty one for my sewing table from SaraGrace
(thanks!), and a Uniquely You for *me* from eBay. and books --
embroidery books, mostly. :-)
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quoting Kathy Page [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I found this painting in an Italian book (funny, that
given the language the citation I can't read below the
painting is written in. *G*) And fell in love with
this dress, but I can't find barely anything about the
painter, the sitter or the location of the
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005, Kathy Page wrote:
I found this painting in an Italian book (funny, that given the
language the citation I can't read below the painting is written in.
*G*) And fell in love with this dress, but I can't find barely
anything about
Quoting WickedFrau [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here is the tiny url: *http://tinyurl.com/dxjmd*
and the regular one in case that doesn't work:
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999gid=8892003uid=4238963members=1
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999gid=8892003uid=4238963members=1
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Another type of ceremonial costume is Vincenzo Gonzaga's attire for
his 1587 coronation as Duke of Mantua. A great deal of research was
necessary to recreate a costume which is described at length in
contemporary chronicles and depicted in paintings
Quoting Kathy Page [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Susan wrote:
Ooh, cool! No, I haven't. What can you tell me
about the book?
Storia del costume in Italia by Rosita Levi Pisetzky.
Volume 3 or 4, IIRC. Milano : Istituto editoriale
italiano, 1964-1969
I can't wait to see if you can track down
a color
Quoting Cynthia Virtue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Susan B. Farmer wrote:
I have to say that I've given up trying to feel out paintings. There
are more than a few that I've seen that individually feel like later
works (and I can't call any to mind at the moment, I'm sure that
they'll come to me -- ah
Quoting Kathy Page [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Someone on another list just presented a really
compelling comparison:
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/diary/images/bronzino.jpg
http://www.asn-ibk.ac.at/bildung/faecher/geschichte/maike/treffpunkt/buch2-96.htm
It supports the opinion that
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
*snippage*
Got 'em! I knew that I had pictures of those sleeves. :-) Both of
these paintings are in the new book Moda a Firenze on the influence
of Eleanor of Toledo. The book covers Florentine Style from 1540-1580.
It's *wonderful* My copy of the
Saragrace said:
If you have the time and patience, there are a number of paintings on
this site that I've not seen before:
One example (besides the one Bjarne shared) :
http://www.kleio.org/frauen/abb17a.htm
There's a color copy of this one at
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If you have the time and patience, there are a number of paintings on
this site that I've not seen before:
One example (besides the one Bjarne shared) :
http://www.kleio.org/frauen/abb17a.htm
And if this is truely a self portrait of Leonardowhoo hoo!
I got a dressmaker's dummy for Christmas (WooHoo!) It's a Uniquely You
off of eBay. :-) And she's just my size.
:-)
I'm wondering about how compressible that they are. Will she squish
down indefinately with a corset? Say, should I have one that fits, and
then lace her into it to *that* place
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've hit the 50% off sales on 2006 calendars at both Borders and a mall
calendar store. What a disappointing choice this year! I saw nothing
medieval aside from one Angels calendar and a Fra Angelico art calendar,
neither of which is very useful for
Quoting Dawn Luckham [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
LOL! Truth be told, I don't often manage it myself. :P
I try to cut very short, fragmented pieces of fiber (almost like
dicing an onion). Every once in a while one or two pieces of fiber
end up in the right position on the microscope slide to be
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Marc Carlson wrote:
I could have sworn that back in anthropology 101 they taught us that
extended breastfeeding was used to make a woman less likely to get
pregnant, not that it stopped menstruation.
It does both.
Quoting Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I also had a problem with the collar, made it over several times and
finally gave up in frustration and went on to another project. It's
been sitting in my UFO pile for a couple years now. I just thought
it was me, since I had never made anything like it
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ooops... Well, it all depends on the breed of cat's hair. I used
to spin collie hair and wool together. Why not Angora cat hair?
It's my understanding that the structure of cat hair makes it difficult
if not impossible to spin. Seems like the cuticle of the
Quoting Susan Data-Samtak [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Seems like the cuticle of the feline fiber (sorry, couldn't resist
the alliteration) is barbed
But aren't the barbs the reason that wool can be spun? It gives
texture so the spinning stays in.
or it could be that the cuticle *isn't* barbed. :-S
Quoting Lloyd Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I just looked at your new dolls.
Ok, I missed it -- How do I get to see the pictures of Bjarne's dolls?
Susan
Hi,
I remember we disgussed this topic way back. I finally found a danish
importer of the famous Tonner Dolls. I ordered 3 of these.
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I have a photo of a great picture of this, the bodice is *not* divided
up
the front. It is much like other bodices that probably have a
stomacher
front with a divided skirt.
http://glittersweet.com/DSCN9267.JPG
OK, so I uploaded it already
Quoting Lloyd Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I goggoled Tonner Dolls!
smacks self in forehead
*DUH*
I google for everything else!
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
Quoting Kathy Page [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Gah! I think that's the one that that came to mind for
me as well, she is literally covered in pearls, right?
I did a quick search on Lady Burghley and couldn't
find the painting. I'll have to do a little more
digging. She however is an example of nobility,
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I know that there's a portrait of Lady Burghley in a
very pregnant state
wearing a kirtle and surcoat.
I have a picture of Mildred Coke, Lady Burghley, 1562-3, oil on panel. She
is wearing a surcoat, what look to be black/red worked sleeves and partlet
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi --
The Eleonora painting was auctioned off at Sotheby's this past year.
That's right! Thanks.
Jerusha (busily making a note ...)
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quoting monica spence [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The painting of Lady Burley can be found in Roy Strong's The English
Icon-- however it is in BW.
*chuckle* We have 30 books by Roy Strong at my university library.
The English Icon is *not* one of them!
Jerusha
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Quoting Ailith Mackintosh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
*snippage
Anyway, one of the curators from the Tate said that she was working
gathering images of pregnant ladies for (I believe) a book. I'm
pretty sure that it wasn't an exhibition.
Has anyone heard or seen anything about this?
No, I
Quoting Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Yes, everything you like, i am at your disposal, and cheap two, promise.
Wont receive money cash, but silk threads. oh yes!
Just make your choise, and ill do it, and in turn, requires Eterna
Stranded Silk Floss in return, ill deside the
Quoting celtkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What a great group this is... So glad to have found you guys. (Quick intro:
I'm Kat who has been looking at 15th/16th c. costume for a couple years now
and needs to get down to business and actually sew something)
LOL -- I *so* resemble that remark! I
Bjarne asked:
Do you consider my bag for 100 dollars cheap or expensive?
Globalisations is catching up on us.
God or bad?
Bjarne
Based on my income (Im a student), they're expensive. If I had a Real
Job (tm), I'd consider the price to be a *real* bargain!
Susan
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[EMAIL
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
If you were looking for information on 16th c. costume in written sources,
whose research/publications would you seek, other than Janet Arnold's?
And: Does anyone know if Jane Ashelford is still active, and if so, where
she can be located?
:-D
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a wonderful book by the Cunningtons which I believe is out of
print. Published, I think in the 50's.
I'd like to find living, currently active, working scholars. There seems
to be a gap here
Quoting Chris Laning [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
*snippage*
ObCostume: the actual spur to planning this trip is the Mediaeval
Dress and Textiles Society meeting on March 11th, which is on
Knitting before 1600. The last time I was in England -- or, indeed,
anywhere in Europe -- was 1970, so this will
Question about houppelandes ...
I've seen bands of fur at the bottom (i.e., hem) of the women's
cotehardie, at the bottom of sideless surcoats, and at the bottom of
men's *short* houppelandes -- but what about a woman's long
houppelande? I inherited one from the estate of a dear friend -- she
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
Saw the topic of Elizabethan English style costume and wanted to let
you know Sharon Cohen specializes in reviving historical hand
embroidery techniques - especially those used in Elizabethan times.
She also has charts for costume miniatures that
Quoting Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 19:46 29/01/2006, you wrote:
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a wonderful book by the Cunningtons which I believe is out of
print. Published, I think in the 50's.
I'd like to find
Quoting Suzi Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
At 00:15 30/01/2006, you wrote:
Question about houppelandes ...
I've seen bands of fur at the bottom (i.e., hem) of the women's
cotehardie, at the bottom of sideless surcoats, and at the bottom of
men's *short* houppelandes -- but what about a woman's
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd recommend against the plastic route. At least against the plastic
boning you can get at JoAnn's -- I'm pretty curvy and have had two
types of trouble with the plastic stuff: (1) in the heat of wearing
it (and possibly lacing tight enough so my chest stays put
Quoting JAMES OGILVIE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What I want defined is Wiki.
There's even a wiki entry for wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quoting JAMES OGILVIE [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What I want defined is Wiki.
speculation -- Wiki-wiki is (I think) Hawaiian for quickly!)
Wikipedia is an online editable Encyclopedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
There's also an SCA specific wikipedia out of Lochac (but you don't have
to
did you try going to
http://images.vam.ac.uk
and searching for gloves? That's the VA image site
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
OK. thanks to the evil woman who pointed out the MFA in Boston site,
I've been drooling there for *far* too long.
Count Richelieu's gloves intrigue me. Are there examples of knitted
gloves *before* 1600?
Susan
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology
Quoting Melanie Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Susan B. Farmer wrote:
OK. thanks to the evil woman who pointed out the MFA in Boston site,
I've been drooling there for *far* too long.
Count Richelieu's gloves intrigue me. Are there examples of knitted
gloves *before* 1600?
There's a pair
Quoting Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Marc,
Gosh thanks a lot. You have made my days a head now. Lady Herringtons
gloves has bullion rosesBULLION ROSES..
Oh, wow! Is there a date for those? Looks like it *might* be late 16th
C.
Susan
BTW, Marc, your link
Quoting Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Found this, and thoaght some of you might not have seen it yeat.
http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?coll_keywords=dresssubmit.x=3submit.y=10coll_start=81
No, I hadn't! Thanks, Bjarne! Short-sleeves and embroidery too! If it
was
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thank you. This looks to be worn under a dress as a combination forepart and
plastron.
Ooh, now that's something that I hadn't considered!
Jerusha
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Susan Farmer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Quoting Bjarne og Leif Drews [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thanks Deredere,
Now i know, we call it Akkeleje in danish.
Cool. The genus name is Aquilegia. It's in the buttercup family.
I've toyed with trying to transform one of the english columbines
Elizabethan patterns into the American columbine.
Quoting Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, speaking as Sue the flower junkie, and not Susan the flower junkie
g, no, not really. I've done collar and cuffs in an interlacing linear
pattern of columbines (from a mid-16th century boy's shirt in the VA), and
will some day do columbine slips
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is the week for not finding things. I know I have seen a 1500s
blackwork pattern of columbines. AAAHHH!
I'm pretty sure that there's one on the dragonbear site, if not the
Elizabethan Blackwork Archives (or both .)
RRGGGHH
I *know*
Quoting Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't have the accession number for the shirt, sorry, but you might be
able to find pictures of it online (people's websites and blogs, if nothing
else). Or maybe the VA website?
I'll have to look and see
I'll have to root through my blackwork
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This isn't a pattern, but this is a picture of a shirt discussed in
someone elses post, (I don't remember if anyone already posted the
picture, sorry if this is redundant) :-)
http://www.kipar.demon.co.uk/elizabethan/boyshirt1540s.jpg
You can clearly see the
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I forgot about this shirt with the columbines. The blackwork pattern that I
am thinking of is from one of the German model books and is similar to the
pattern on the shirt collar.
On the Arizona site for Digital Archives for weaving, there's this
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm really interested in wanting a blackwork pattern of columbines,
also. Actually, I was recently gifted a blackwork book of patterns
and there is this one pattern that looks like a columbine but has no
spurs - they called it a pansy, but definitely does not
Quoting Sue Clemenger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, speaking as Sue the flower junkie, and not Susan the flower junkie
g, no, not really. I've done collar and cuffs in an interlacing linear
pattern of columbines (from a mid-16th century boy's shirt in the VA), and
A photo of the shirt has been
Quoting Ann Catelli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
--- Susan B. Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've toyed with trying to transform one of the
english columbines
Elizabethan patterns into the American columbine.
Ours is not as fat and the spurs are *much*
longer.
http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer
Please forgive my cross-post (but do feel free to forward as you see
fit)
Hi folks. I don't know if any of you outside Meridies know about the
old SCA_Fabric-Finders list (or how many of you need Yet Another Yahoo
List ...). It's been taken over by spammers, so we decided to start a
new list --
And while we're talking Italian Tippets . :-)
I've got another picture for you, Robin. I just had to get it scanned
-- and now seemed like a good time to do it!
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Paintings/milano_ExpulsionJoachim150.jpg
these women are spectators, so I don't know how
Quoting Deredere Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Today I dyed silk for my 12th century bliaut.
And it got a shokking salmon pink.
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~triade2/tijdelijk/Bliautsilk.jpg
I wonder if this would be right for that period.
I think that the color is gorgeous!
I dyed it with
Quoting Deredere Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
Today I dyed silk for my 12th century bliaut.
And it got a shokking salmon pink.
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~triade2/tijdelijk/Bliautsilk.jpg
I wonder if this would be right for that period.
I dyed it with meekrap. I don't know the correct
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
-Original Message-
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Paintings/milano_ExpulsionJoachim150.jpg
(Susan) these women are spectators, so I don't know how much the Special
Garb
rule applies here, but .
The Italian GFD frequently has this sort of
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I hadn't thought of gores but I think you may be on to something here. This
would solve some peoples problems with not having enough fabric of one
color. :)
It would be a hoot to do -- and you could carry that picture around with
you and say -- see! here it
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Of course! Think about Anne of Cleves dress. If all you knew was
English Tudor, you'd swear that was a Fantasy/Allegorical gown.
Oh boy... I have discussed this one on my livejournal as I recently read the
most appalling disection of the sybolism in the
Quoting Chiara Francesca [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
http://www.imagesonline.bl.uk/britishlibrary-store/Components/34/3463_2.jpg
This on has long been my favorite. I have been sketching and
searching and sketching these dresses for years hoping to find the
right event to make one for. Sigh, and the
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm not sure I understand the tree. Is the woman standing the matriarch of
the family and the couple sitting at the bottom of the drawing brother and
sister or are they the parents and the woman standing the featured
descendent?
The tree? *giggle* I've
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I guess they could be buttons but the top of the red seems to be wider then
the other panels and it almost looks like there are dots on the other side
of the red at the bust. I was thinking that it was similar in treatment to
the birth of the virgin dress with
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I guess they could be buttons but the top of the red seems to be wider then
the other panels and it almost looks like there are dots on the other side
of the red at the bust. I was thinking that it was similar in treatment to
the birth of the virgin dress with
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
For balance? Mainly I don't want a post reveler getting dizzy and hurling
more colour onto it. :P
snicker. probably a good thought.
And thinking of multi- colours, this reminded me of someone I know who made
a man's Landsknecht in various Hawaiian print
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Actually the owner of Calontir trim and I was reminded that it was someone
else who made it for him.
Drix. Hmmm. Could have been Joel, I guess.
Jerusha
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A better picture.
http://www.kimiko1.com/research-16th/FrenchHood/1560/BessHardwick.html
I sat down once and copied the pattern on graph paper but I can't seem to
find it.
I think it was charted on those temporarily removed blackwork archives
that were
Quoting Katy Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I did a google search, it may be soybean protein fiber
http://www.swicofil.com/soybeanproteinfiber.html
Way cool. The protein version of rayon!
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
I know we were talking about that new Simplicity pattern. What I don't
remember is if anybody had pointed this piece of information out --
it's from the book itself (as well as the email that I got today from
Simplicity)
Remarkably delicate care and attention is given to the tiny pleating
Quoting michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Our inspiration comes from the original gown currently in a private
collection and displayed in the Victorian Bridal Museum in San Jacinto,
California.
Yeah, I noticed on the front photo that it said Wrights Victorian Bridal
Museum so I did a seatch. There
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In a message dated 2/22/2006 9:34:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At least Simplicity's designer had something to work with besides Thin
Air!
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C'mon Susannobody works from thin air. Don't you watch Project
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