RE: [h-cost] Dress topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

Robin, sorry to have confused your message header - I came into this thread late and didn't read the beginnings of it. However, I'm delighted to have contacted you. I've seen your name on the Lists to which i subscribe many, many times, and know the esteem in which you are held by others whose

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

Since I'm supposed to be writing a paper on globalization, naturally I work on coming up with more headwords: gardes-corps chapes ceinture girdles tapes bezants pins saya garters shoes slippers boots buskins sandals chopines coif hood mantle vair ermine miniver scarlet fustian cendal samite wa

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

> A well-researched and well-illustrated book [or 2, or 3] about > English middle-class and upper-class Dress in England during the > Reign of Henry 7th. > > Almost every book I've been able to look at purporting to deal > with "Tudor Dress or Costume" slides over the Reign of Henry > 7th (1485-1

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

Flax Linen Line (re: linen) Tow (ditto linen) Hemp Nettle Line as clothing insides, too. ;) Interlining Flatlining (provided it was done in the focus period) Wool Woolen Worsted Silk Reel/ed Spun Cotton Cottoned (as a treatment of wool) Dyestuffs Cochineal/kermes (the one from the Mediterranea

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

A well-researched and well-illustrated book [or 2, or 3] about English middle-class and upper-class Dress in England during the Reign of Henry 7th. Almost every book I've been able to look at purporting to deal with "Tudor Dress or Costume" slides over the Reign of Henry 7th (1485-1509) as th

[h-cost] Uniform dress of a Suisse pictures, anyone?

Would anyone be interested in seeing the "uniform dress" of a "Suisse" of the Roman Catholic Church? It dates from the 1870's. After nearly 40 years in storage of one kind or another, almost forotten, - my wife and her sister have just prepared it for permananent exhibition at the newly-renovat

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Hi Robin, here is my few cents worth: gloves shoes underclothing hose cotehardie :-) tailoring construction sewing/seam and hem treatments oil cloth felt cotton hemp canvas (tent materials etc) painting on textiles starch (if it was used before 1450) prevention of insect attack (moth damage to si

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

Spinning technology! Spindle types and weights timeline of wheel types and introduction... detailed drawings! and details on types of yarns- wpi, fiber type, plies etc etc And while we are blue skying it... fiber types, timeline of introduction and fiber prep tools and devices What dyes where used

[h-cost] RE: Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

swaddling clothing for infants and toddlers underwear aprons breast support maternity clothing wills - clothing handed down through generations second hand clothing Are these too earthy? Mary ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://ma

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

As per Robin's request for headwords: fillet barbette chainse wicklebandr leg wrappings hose chausses cotte kirtle gown gunna brooch laces braies breeches fur, use of fur pelice pelicon chemise precious stones pearls Jen/Pixel ___ h-costume mailing l

RE: [h-cost] Dress and textile topics, medieval Britain: Your wish list

Cathy wrote, in response to my request earlier: > Here's some that occur to me, focused as I am on the early > part of the period you cite: > > peplos > diamond twill > lozenge twill > broken lozenge twill > use of beads in costume > use of embroidery in costume > veils > warp-weighted loom > ho