At 11:15 02/04/2008, you wrote:
What I am trying to get down is how to do knife pleating. I have read
many different instructions on how to make the pleats, but how can one
acheive a sharp pleat that holds through the whole length to the bottom
edge? The material I am using is like a
http://www.livinghistory.dk/index.html
Wow indeed! What a fascinating site, with some quite haunting portraits. In
English churches you can see memorials with sculpted portraits of the deceased,
but never oil paintings. I gather a lot of the subjects must be clergymen, as
they're wearing
What I am trying to get down is how to do knife pleating. I have read
many different instructions on how to make the pleats, but how can one
acheive a sharp pleat that holds through the whole length to the bottom
edge? The material I am using is like a lightly woven, delicately
In period they would often run a line of stitching on the backside of
the pleating, catching each interior fold. There would be one or
multiple rows of this stitching, unseen from the outside, which would
keep the inner edge of the fold in place.
Katy
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:07 AM, [EMAIL
Sharon Collier wrote:
. Before acrylics, we
used
to make our own paint, using hoof-and-horn glue. We called it casein paint.
You mixed the ground up stuff (hooves and horns, apparently) up with water,
heated it and mixed in dry pigment.
Nah - the bad one is the number of people from soruthern England who've
though I was Scottish.
I'm not, I'm from near Newcastle in the North East. *rolling eyes*
(Of course, then when I pointed out where I'm from, some asked which part of
Scotland that was in!
In a message
I'm not sure of the gown you will be trying to interpret; most dresses I
have seen first hand have the pleating around the underskirt; usually 8/12
. There is a pleater board that Clotilda carries that does the pleating so
quicklyfor this width. .It is a square with pockets that you stuff and
In a message dated 4/2/2008 7:02:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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There would be one or
multiple rows of this stitching, unseen from the outside, which would
keep the inner edge of the fold in place.
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And I have seen on period examples the
Hi Suzi, Could you tell us who you use, and approximately what it costs to have
this done? I have seen these adds before, but just assumed you had to have
stuff done in such huge amounts that it probably wasn't affordable.
Thanks,Sg It may be worth looking for somewhere that does permanent
I am reading the book right now - early on, when John is about 41, indeed they
do not have any servants except one girl who lived (and died, I might add, of
an epidemic) while John was in Philadelphia. By this time-the Adams of
Braintree Massachusetts, were 4th generation American farmers; who
Hi Suzi, Could you tell us who you use, and approximately what it costs to
have
this done?? I have seen these adds before, but just assumed you had to have
stuff done in such huge amounts that it probably wasn't affordable.
Thanks,Sg It may be worth looking for somewhere that does permanent
Dianne wrote:
Can you tell the difference between a Michigan accent and a Pennsylvania
accent?
How about Kentucky and Texas?
OK, point taken!
Good. I thought at first I might have come off snotty, and I didn't intend
to do so.
Point was simply that it would be harder for an American to
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Nah - the bad one is the number of people from soruthern England who've
though I was Scottish.
I'm not, I'm from near Newcastle in the North East. *rolling eyes*
But if you're from another planet, why do you sound like you're from
the North?
Lots of
Andrew Trembley wrote:
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Nah - the bad one is the number of people from soruthern England who've
though I was Scottish.
I'm not, I'm from near Newcastle in the North East. *rolling eyes*
But if you're from another planet, why do you sound like
When I was doing wedding dresses, I used San Francisco Pleating Co.
There were no minimums, they were fine with pleating a yard or less.
Here's contact info:
San Francisco Pleating Co.- 425 2nd St.,San Francisco, CA., 94107,
(415)982-3003
Custom pleating. They do knife, accordion,
At 14:15 02/04/2008, you wrote:
Hi Suzi, Could you tell us who you use, and approximately what it
costs to have this done? I have seen these adds before, but just
assumed you had to have stuff done in such huge amounts that it
probably wasn't affordable.
Saragrace
As I work in England I
Can we get back to our regularly scheduled topic? Here's a question
for you: If you had sufficient resources to make your dream costume,
what would it be?
--cin
LOL! It would be made by someone else, of course!
I think I would tend toward some kind of big poofy cinderella fantasy
style
At 21:01 02/04/2008, you wrote:
Can we get back to our regularly scheduled topic? Here's a question
for you: If you had sufficient resources to make your dream costume,
what would it be?
--cin
LOL! It would be made by someone else, of course!
I think I would tend toward some kind of
In a message dated 02/04/2008 19:00:26 GMT Standard Time,
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Andrew Trembley wrote:
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Nah - the bad one is the number of people from soruthern England who've
though I was Scottish.
I'm not, I'm from near Newcastle in the North
I made that dress years ago for a bride--she had the perfect figure
and personality for it. When she first called me, after trying
several other bridal dressmakers, who had barely even heard of Gone
With The Wind, she was thrilled when I knew exactly the dress she was
talking about immediately.
In a message dated 4/1/2008 10:06:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
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As probably the closest one to the Con (it's
Rebecca Schmitt wrote:
women in mid-16th century, with one of the women labelled something like
countrywoman. If I'm not mixing up my images, she is carrying a basket
(with chickens)
This one?
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/-SGAPxUqpJAunP1FuPfR6g
Dawn
In a message dated 4/1/2008 10:06:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 13:50:10 -0500
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] [ h-cost]Making history hip
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That's it!!! Thank you!!!
***
Rebecca Schmitt
aka Agness Cabot, Guilde of St. Lawrence
Bristol Renaissance Faire
My arms are too short to box with God. --Johnny Cash
Dianne wrote:
Point was simply that it would be harder for an American to distinguish
between regional British accents, as it would be hard for someone from
England to distinguish between say, Michigan and Ohio.
Those states in particular are a really good case in point. There isn't
an
Margo et al,
I am certain I remember someone on another list mentioning a year or two ago
that SF Pleating had moved to South San Francisco. However, in looking them
up in the on-line Yellow Pages, only the address on 2nd St, S.F. shows up
with the same phone number Margo mentioned.
My friend
I am sending this on for those of you who are interested in the Danish Living
History Site.
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Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:07:06 +0300
Subject: Re: [GermanRenCostume] Danish Living History Site - WOW!
Ofcourse! No
I don't have an on-line source, but it's on page 80 of my 'Visual History of
Costume: The Sixteenth Century' by Jane Ashelford.
Karen
Seamstrix
-- Rebecca Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alright - I thought I had one bookmarked, but cannot find it when I need it!
I am looking for an online
Drea Leeds has the image on her site in Black and White:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.elizabethancostume.net/low
erclass/lcolor.jpgimgrefurl=http://www.elizabethancostume.net/lowerclass/fl
emish-dress.htmlh=257w=266sz=69hl=enstart=5sig2=nrGtYqUjKybQHWDsCuquyw
The servants were in part 4 - from this past weekend - at the house
they were residing at in France.
Has anyone been watching the HBO series, John Adams? What is your
general impression of:
Costumes - both the principal characters and the general
populace/servants/etc.?
Sandy (and Pierre)
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