Re: [h-cost] Petersen's Magazines as costume info source

Obviously it is up to you what you do with them, in the UK lots of this kind of stuff gets offered to museums, who keep some of it. Rather than throw them away is it possible to offer them on your local reuse group at all, somebody might like the bits you don't ? Mel This e-mail, and any

Re: [h-cost] [ h-cost] What period is this Butterick from?

Melody Watts wrote: My mom's weddding dress was a Rettingcoat / Rettingote (sp) style dress with the under dress styled exactly like theirs. I think the word you want is Redingote, an 18th century (?) French word for a man's coat, which was a corruption of the English riding coat. Kate

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

Please find a home for them! Once trashed they do no good for anyone. These kinds of primary resources are a goldmine for anyone studying history, literature, material culture, historic anthropology, sociology, etc. High school or even elementary school teachers who want to provide their

Re: [h-cost] Petersen's Magazines as costume info source

Hi. I volunteer annually at a used-book sale that has become major. Sometimes we have quite interesting late-19th-century magazines among our Special offerings, but they usually don't sell unless they're in fine condition or better, which magazines rarely are. Here's what we've been

[h-cost] A member of this list needs your prayers...

Many of you know or have corresponded with Anne (Irina) Moeller.  She attended the conference in Florence last year.  For the past few weeks Anne has been hospitalized.  The only thing the doctors have been able to diagnose is possibly Kikuchi Disease.  Her husband, Gary, has been

Re: [h-cost] Making piled fabric

Now that you've whetted my curiosity, what are you planning to make? I wanted to try my hand at making tabletwoven piled fabric. But I've been dying to try making velvet ever since I saw a workshop producing some in Japan last year. This would mean being able to reproduce voided velvets of the

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

For another example, while I absolutely love projects that have digitized masses of material, like Google Books, Making of America, or Accessible Archives, copyright and access issues are still important for those who want to undertake small, focused digitization projects. Having access to

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

What Google _has_ done is scan over 2 million works that are still under copyright and is planning to sell _those_, not via any legislation to directly change copyright law but via a class action suit and a contract made with a handful of parties who do not represent most authors or

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

Again, no one has ever objected to Google's scanning of public-domain works, or their plans to sell those works as e-books or print books, or their plans to sell ads within them. On the other hand I can understand Google selling them as many of the Public domain works that are free in their

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

On the other hand I can understand Google selling them as many of the Public domain works that are free in their entirety on Google books are already being sold on ABEbooks by others as I found to my dismay after buying one. I did get a refund in the end. In the US it is perfectly legal

Re: [h-cost] The Peterson's magazines

Another thought about those is Scan and Share. Henry W. Osier Chairman, Costume-Con 28 May 7 to May 10, 2010 www.CC28.org Look for our fan page on Facebook! And on Twitter: CostumeCon28 Got questions? Join the CostumeCon Yahoo group! ___ h-costume