Re: [h-cost] What's your dummy wearing this season?
Mine would be wearing a hand-sewn man's Viking tunic and a woman's Viking coif. I'm doing some detailed embroidery on the coif for a friend who has had breast cancer this year. Magge/Genie > On Dec 18, 2015, at 12:08 AM, Marjorie Wilser <the3t...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Mine— alas, still stored. I miss her. > > However, were she out to play, she’d have her choice of several large hand > knit lace shawls. I have spent a lot of enjoyable time knitting lace the last > few years. It has distracted me from doing a lot of sewing. > > Since SCA-period groups are my only local choice I dabble occasionally there, > but not enough to warrant new clothes as yet. Since my Elizabethans are not > so comfy for many events I am working on hand-sewing a linen dress of the > t-tunic persuasion with wide gores in the skirt. > > Then I sewed a set of gores in, inside-out. The project is currently on hold. > Those seams were tight! :) > > ==Marjorie Wilser > > @..@ @..@ @..@ > Three Toad Press > http://3toad.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > ___ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] slashing fabric
When you look at the Lanskneckt research out there, much of it looks like a uniform. That leg short with an optional legging, that one to the knee and a long sock tied at the knee. One of the soldiers was an artist, sketching his comrades, and recorded the consistency of the clothing. The higher rank you achieved, the better and more fancy the uniform. I don't always recommend Osprey, but the reproductions of the drawings in the Lanskneckt sp? Book are really cool. Genie On Jul 22, 2014, at 2:53 PM, Julie jtknit...@gmail.com wrote: I saw this on another list and I thought I'd check with the wise folks on this list. I've never heard this before. Truth or myth? I took a history of fashion class in college (design major) and the decorative cutting of clothes goes back to the 16th century if not earlier. It started with the german warriors who would take the fine silk clothing of the people they bested in battle but the clothing was too small (these were evidently big guys) so they cut the pants up in decorative slashes so that they could still wear them. (look up landschkinects) This was of course before the invention of the washing machine so the fabric didn't disintegrate like it would now with modern washing practices. And the fashion spread throughout Europe. The frayed edges of the cuts were definitely part of the design element of it to the extent that there were some fabrics woven to look like they had been decoratively cut...the frayed edge duplicated with an overlaid weft that was severed after weaving (like velvet, only in spots) and there were special chisels made for the tailors to do the cutting with. Thanks for your wisdom Julie On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:00 AM, h-costume-requ...@indra.com wrote: Send h-costume mailing list submissions to h-costume@mail.indra.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to h-costume-requ...@mail.indra.com You can reach the person managing the list at h-costume-ow...@mail.indra.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of h-costume digest... Today's Topics: 1. LonCon Membership for sale (cc2010m...@cs.com) -- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:06:49 -0400 (EDT) From: cc2010m...@cs.com To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Subject: [h-cost] LonCon Membership for sale Message-ID: 8d1733670fc8cbe-f04-12...@webmail-m257.sysops.aol.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello, I am selling my membership to LonCon, the world SF con in London. I am asking $100, which is what it cost me at ChiCon. Henry Osier -- ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume End of h-costume Digest, Vol 13, Issue 62 * ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Catacombs of Priscilla
That's Shadrach, Meeshack, and Abednego. Contemporaries to Daniel (of the lion's den) in the bible. Jewishness and keeping to it until death are the themes. It must be some version of Jewish costume of the day. The hair certainly fits. Genie On Apr 30, 2014, at 10:20 PM, Elena House exst...@gmail.com wrote: 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 frescoes dated to around the middle of the 3rd century. This is the first one that caught my attention: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiery_furnace_01.jpg which lead me to quickly find this: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/20/article-2510473-1983CD820578-7_634x415.jpg detail: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/20/article-2510473-1983D8F20578-248_634x402.jpg(It's the sleeves/sleeveheads that are getting me here.) Now, 3rd century Italian is definitely not my era/area, but... am I the only one whose reaction is HUH?! Early 17th century ain't my period either, but I'd have a lot easier time believing that was what I was looking at than -=3rd=- century. Is anyone particularly familiar with this era/area? I'd love to know more about these garments, or anything even vaguely resembling them during this time period. Yes, these are religious frescoes, making them automatically questionable as costume reference pics. But where would they even come up with the ideas? I haven't managed to see images of every other fresco dating to around the same period in the catacombs, but I've seen many of them; the clothing in them is much more what my not-my-period eyes would have expected. You know, like this: http://catholicphilly.com/media-files/2013/11/CATACOMBS-GOOGLE1.jpg Anyway. Someone please either tell me I'm imagining it. I mean, I don't really think I'm looking at the 3 musketeers caught in the act of time travel; I expect it's probably even possible to kirtle up a tunic into this silhouette. But I'd really like to know more about the clothing of this era/area, and exactly how much they knew about fitting sleeves in Italy in the 3rd century. -E House ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Help - shredding silk :((
If fray check doesn't work, drop a dot of glue right on the back of the embroidery to hold it. When it dries, it shouldn't have more problems. Magge/Genie On May 18, 2012, at 4:10 AM, Aylwen Gardiner-Garden aylwe...@gmail.com wrote: Any helpful hints appreciated - I have a commission to make a regency gown from a woven embroidered silk dupion. Looks gorgeous on the outside but the embroidery is shedding like mad on the underside. What would you do to it to save the day? It is supposed to be a wow gown and all I feel like doing is crying :( *Aylwen Gardiner-Garden* * * *Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy http://www.earthlydelights.com.au * *Jane Austen Festival Australia* http://www.janeaustenfestival.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
