Cutwork and the technique used on the doilies is used on clothing from
Bishop's garments to aprons and is pretty old technique. I have seen
Christmas decorations become part of a costume and parts of a costume become
X-mas decorations.
And probably, especially if it was originally a skirt and
It's that time of year when the calendar is full of holiday parties,
winter balls, gift-making excuses, company dinners, Dickens Fair,
theater season, New Years Eve, cocktail parties, and 12th Night...
The sewing room is a mess being prepped for painting fancy new
baseboards to restore this
your dressmaker's dummy wearing today?
One is wearing a skirt and petticoat for the outfit I was thinking of
wearing to visit Dickens faire tomorrow - if I had gotten it done and if I
had figured out a way to put an entire victorian outfit into my carry on
luggage. Theother is wearing a drape
Not much in the way of historic costume, but I did have a recent
project of making hemmed squares of novelty prints around Halloween
and after. :-) The frightening thing is, I discovered that wearing
one as a kerchief adds a few degrees of extra warmth, so yes, that's
me wearing a
Carol,
Re: knitting (also costume!), I'd call mitts with extended fingers
fingerless gloves instead of mitts-- but you could call them
anything you like, especially if they're not intended for historical
use. If they're historical, then I think they'd still be mitts. Sort
of, best guess,
In a message dated 12/3/2010 12:19:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
cinbar...@gmail.com writes:
on the worktable,
Not there yet, but my husband is begging for a new pair of black knit
pantaloons for our Regency 12th Night Ball. He had a perfectly good pair, but
we can't find them
Right now, the wicker lady is stark naked and Yasmine is wearing an
antique 1880's corset and bustle left over from my last class on
Victorian undies. I'm hoping to get her stripped down over the holiday
break and get started on the Octopus corset.
Melusine
On 12/3/2010 9:17 AM, Cin wrote:
Guess I should have reported that I have finished the Christmas presents I
planned over Thanksgiving. I'm giving my DSD and DGDs a tea set (a real
one) and made them all aprons with teacups and pots on them. And for a
young friend's American Girl doll, I made a painter's smock, beret, and
In a message dated 12/3/2010 2:34:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
scour...@nwlink.com writes:
if I had gotten it done and if I
had figured out a way to put an entire victorian outfit into my carry on
luggage
For future reference, things like this can be shipped ahead--might even be
In a message dated 12/3/2010 4:39:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
aqua...@patriot.net writes:
What is the item called when the fingers are also
differentiated? Usually I see them ending just before the knuckle,
but I'm thinking about making some that would only have an open
fingertip.
OHHH, what a fun way to travel! You'd be in that little TSA room so
fast your corset would melt. . . (ROFL)
== Marjorie Wilser (trying to imagine how boning xrays. . . and
hatpins. . . and getting the giggles)
=:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:=
Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never
Ann,
I don't think there's any differentiation in the mitts category.
Though fingerless handwear in general seems to be mittens OR mitts.
But it all depends on what century and what decade of the century.
Makes me want to take my mitts tomorrow to work at the printing
museum. Sometimes
I've been wearing cheap gloves with the finger tips cut off in my office for
the past week because of the cold. My office doesn't have much heat and it's
been real work just to type on my computer. I've been finding excuses to get
up and walk around the building just to get my blood circulating.
Yes, that's exactly what I need them for, computing in a cold room.
Tipless gloves? :-)
I'm sure we could wear regular gloves, but then our fingers might
slide and cause (more) typos. Considering the gloves I find often are
too short in the finger, cutting off the very tip would still fit
Sadly, my dear Euphoria is nekked inside a plastic bag (the very
thought!!). There she is likely to stay until I need the next costume
piece. And she'll need a retrofit to fit me!
Printing museum is the International Printing Museum in Carson, CA (www.printmuseum.org
).
We don't do any
Can anyone on the list recommend a book I might purchase for my nephew for
Christmas? He's very much into heavy leather work. He creates beautiful belts
with pockets and loops, -- imagine a policeman's belt but as a deconstructed
fashion item.
Anyway, his talent is a bit sophisticated for the
In a message dated 12/3/2010 7:25:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
the3t...@gmail.com writes:
Makes me want to take my mitts tomorrow to work at the printing
museum. Sometimes equipment rooms are downright chilly, especially if
they don't boast a Linotype in residence!
One year, my
On 12/03/2010 01:10 PM, Lynn Downward wrote:
A Viking era shift and an apron dress, but those have been completed for
a long time. I have a number of items in the works that have been in
the works for awhile, including a new wrap-around apron dress and a 10th
c Lithuanian shawl.
--
Cathy
Rght. Well, my window _fan_ needed a costume. Since I'm in a mild
winter area (coastal So. Cal), I decided to leave the box fan in the
bathroom window this year. It's not as crazy as it sounds. I really
only need it covered during the coldest couple of weeks. Since
costumers regularly
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