[h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

Ladies & Gentlemen of the List, this List seems to be honoured by a number of people whose professional work is - or has been - Costuming - for Museums, Theatre, Films, and the like. Reading many past Posts while I have been lurking in the shadows and learning from you all, I suspect that so

Re: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

At 10:59 14/10/2007, you wrote: Ladies & Gentlemen of the List, this List seems to be honoured by a number of people whose professional work is - or has been - Costuming - for Museums, Theatre, Films, and the like. Reading many past Posts while I have been lurking in the shadows and learn

Re: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

Dear Suzi, TYVM for your prompt response. I shall look them up online today. yoursgratefully, Julian Wilson Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SNIPPED > However the Suisse's cocked hat, [worn "athwartships"] - also heavily > ornamented with "gold" lace and trimmed with white o

Re: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

At 11:43 14/10/2007, you wrote: Dear Suzi, TYVM for your prompt response. I shall look them up online today. I couldn't find them on line, but have put a request out on another list I'm on, as we have people who make military uniforms there. Suzi yoursgratefully, Julian Wilson Suzi

Re: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

At 11:43 14/10/2007, you wrote: Dear Suzi, TYVM for your prompt response. I shall look them up online today. 86 Margaret Street London W1W (0207 580 7488) http://www.hand-embroidery.co.uk/ Suzi Apparently they have moved and changed hands and so on! (No

Reply - [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

Aha! Margaret Street, London? Way back when the world was young, & rocks were soft, - one of my very first jobs was clerking for the Performing Rights Society whose HQ was in Margaret Street! Hand't thought of that for years. Anyway, TYVM for giving-up some of your Sunday morning to be so he

RE: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

I read somewhere that mettalic lace was originally cleaned by rubbing it with a piece of bread saturated with urine. Monica -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Suzi Clarke Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 6:48 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re:

Re: [h-cost] Help, please? Cleaning tarnished metallic lace.

http://www.hand-embroidery.co.uk/ This is the company Suzi Clarke would give you to ask about cleaning tarnished metal- Bjarne ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

[h-cost] Seeking names in early textile research

Passing along a question from a friend that I can't answer myself: Can anyone point me to which researchers would be the "name" specialists studying and publishing about textiles from the Near East and Aegean from the fourth and third centuries B.C.? I know there are plenty of people in pre-m

[h-cost] Robin Netherton/Laurellen de Brandevin Lectures

In case your wondering, yes there is still space available. If you would still like to attend the Robin Netherton/Tammie Dupuis Lecture sereis next weekend (October 20, 21) in Eugene Oregon please visit our website at www.costumetalk.com for information on the event. Complete a registration

Re: [h-cost] Seeking names in early textile research

On Oct 14, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Robin Netherton wrote: Passing along a question from a friend that I can't answer myself: Can anyone point me to which researchers would be the "name" specialists studying and publishing about textiles from the Near East and Aegean from the fourth and third cen

[h-cost] Paternoster beads: medieval dress accessory

For anyone interested who hasn't already heard about it, my booklet "Bedes Byddyng: Medieval Rosaries and Paternoster Beads" has been published (finally!) as issue #135 of the Compleat Anachronist (an SCA quarterly). It's available at $4.50 per copy at: https:// secure.sca.org/cgi-bin/stock