I received The Complete Costume History by Auguste Racinet. Anyone know
anything about it? How's the scholarship or shall I just look at the pretty
pictures? It is a huge book. Kay
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Pretty pictures. Racinet was the be-all-and-end-all at his time (19th C.),
but everything is redrawn. (Better you should look at original art.) However
it is fun to find the original art and then see how he changed it.
Monica
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> I know I have seen examples of? 1530s or so? spanish court gowns but i
cant for
> the life of me remember wherecan anybody help?
_Hispanic Costume: 1480-1530_ by Ruth M. Anderson is a _wonderful_
resource for early 16th cent. Spanish gowns. It was recently in print but
looking on Amazon i
I got what I think may be the sexiest seam ripper ever - Gingher makes one
that looks like something that might re found in Stork Trek. Retractable
blade. Then the next box was the boxed set of Gingher scissors - score! And
the display case of Guttermann threads. Good thing that one of the child
MAy you and your needles be blest in the New Year
MErcy Buckets!!!
Bambi (To be named ater) TBNL
I am made for great things by GOD
and walk with Pride
Walladah bint al Mustakfi c 1100ad
see me dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HMtOoXtMs0
--- On Wed, 12/31/08, sunshine.k.buch.
> I don't think that it is embroidery but a similar colored brocade or a
> fabric that had an edge that had a gold thread design interwoven. this would
> make sense with the two part sleeve and that the bodice looks to be pleated
> as well to match the cuff ruffle and the sleeve cap.
> Side note: S
My roommate gave me a small fabric sewing kit reputed to be an antique
Victorian one. It's a dark blue velvet with an old gold silk-type fabric
lining.
I was given two lengths of fabric I *wanted* during my recent trip to the LA
garment district by my friends.
Otherwise, that was it this year
The caps the cuffs and bodice look more like a part of the fabric then
embroidery. The bodice, if you enlarge the pictures appears to be pleated.
http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CARIANISeduction.JPG
http://tinyurl.com/8q48hy
There are other paintings that have pleated or gathered
