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Thank you all for the information. These are what I am looking for and I do
have graduate student access to the UIUC libraries so maybe I can get them
through interlibrary loan.Charlene, could you tell me what key words you
were searching through OCLC because I can't get it to disgorge the
Hello the list,
Years ago either AlterYears or Amazon Vinegar Pickling Dry Goods carried
a set of graphed dress patterns from, I think, the Royal Ontario Museum. My
Google-fu is failing me so I can't find a reference to them on-line.. If anyone
has these or remembers what I'm talking abo
Hi All,
I've found all your replies really helpful and now have a question on the
practicalities of a small wardrobe. How many dresses would a lower middle
class married woman have in her wardrobe? What type of garments would they
have been, wrappers, dresses, nightgowns, etc.? And what w
Hi All,
I've given some thought as to how I would describe middle class for my
research project since you're all correct in that middle class covers a wide
range.
I'm looking at people who had enough that they could grow or purchase enough
food to not worry about having food, farm families w
Hello,
I'm trying to look into the size of the average middle-class woman's
wardrobe through the centuries. Finding advice on the trousseau is easier, at
least after the advent of ladies' magazines but I'm most interested in how many
dresses a middle class woman would own. How common was t
Hello All
I've lost enough weight that I need to start sewing a new wardrobe andI'm
looking at doing more 1890-1909 blouses, skirts and suits. Is there a late
Victorian list that is very active? I've been picking up original pattern
sheets from ebay, some in French and German, and some pa
Hi All,
I'm getting ready for a vacation of sorts and was going to work on a
winter morning gown, I'm using ageless patterns #1235, 1893 morning gown
w/revers collarette, in bright purple wool broadcloth and will do something
screamimgly bright for the embroidery on the revers. If anyone
Hi Everyone,
As it has now hit over 80 F and 85 % humidity at my workplace I plan on
making good my threat to make some Asian pants in a truly obnoxious print.
Unfortunately I can't find the article I was going to use as reference. I know
it was in Costume, the periodical publication out o
I found the color chart highly useful as a starting point for the color names I
see when reading about costume. I'll have to adjust my monitor to get truer
images than what I'm currently seeing but this looks like fun. Some charts I
know use DMC wool tapestry yarn colors as a color reference w
Hi Everyone,
Since I don't have any pressing sewing to do for the holidays I've decided
to use up some of my stash. The top piece is a panne velvet which stretches.
I have a simple dress pattern with a skirt seamed to a bodice but would like to
stabilize out the stretch. The fabric stretch
Hi all,
The thread on lacing was very timely as it got me going again on my late
1820s outfit so on to the questions. I'm looking at doing a late 1820s outfit
from the skin out (I already have Fran's excellent book) and am not finding
undergarments specifically dated to 1828. This is a tra
Thank you for all the design disc links and especially the stabilizer purchase
site. Now if someone could point to someplace to buy an endless hoop so I can
make long lengths of embroidery for hems and angel sleeve hems? I'm also
interested in eyelet patterns or patterns for 1830's fichus and
Hello all,
I received an embroidery machine for Christmas and am in need of guidance
and information. Someone on this list mentioned getting a continuous hoop for
doing strips of trim or lace so I'd like an on-line source for accessories. My
machine is a Singer futura CE-150 and the shops
Could anyone who has copies of the blackwork patterns
from the Bronwen's Blackwork link on Drea's
Elizabethan Costuming page please contact me off-list.
I lost my copy of the pattern I was going to use and
I can't remember whether it was English, German or
Italian. Bronwen has tried to help but i
Thanks for the ideas on the construction of the
housedress. I'm actually looking at a pattern draft
from the Voice of Fashion 1890s. I've never been very
good at getting the gathered or pleated edges to go
smoothly into the adjacent seam and the instructions
are basically non-existent for exactly
Hi Everyone,
I was just looking at princess line housedresses
from the 1890s and am confused by how to sew some of
the pieces together. I'll see if I can describe what
I see. The back of the bodice is in two pieces with
the curved back seam. When you get to the waist line
the seamline goes ou
Sorry to send this to the list but the kind offer of
close-up photos from the Met magazine caught my eye.
Could you please e-mail me off-list so I can take you
up on your kind offer to copy some of the pictures.
Thanks,
Cassandra
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Hi all,
Does anyone know where Drea Leeds most excellent
site went? Every one of the pages I had bookmarked
from her site is giving me a 404 error and I'm not
getting a site when I try googling for the main site.
Help?
Cassandra
Hi everyone,
For people who own a copy of the Edwardian Modiste
I could use some help. I want to make the dress from
page 236 and am having more trouble than I think I
should. If anyone has made this dress could you
e-mail me privately so I can ask some questions about
the flounces. Thanks.
Hello again,
I'm looking at doing the "traditional" kimono with
the collar standing away from the back of the neck and
the collar crossing across the front of the chest.
As far as I can tell this style originated about
300 years ago so that is the timeframe I am looking
at. What research I'v
I've decided to revamp my casual wardrobe and am
leaning towards a Japanese theme.
So now I have several questions.
I've started by doing web research and pulling out all
my appropriate patterns, Folkwear, etc and my copy of
Make Your Own Japanese Clothing.
Would the first layer be linen? One of
Hello again,
Thanks again for all the links. I was planning on
a padded satin stitch for the roses, more like the
Helena Snakenborg, but with more of a scatter pattern
like some of the Italian shifts. Thanks again.
Cassandra
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Thanks for the links. I did try google first and got
several that were possible. I seem to remember in the
dim recesses of my mind that there were several styles
of Tudor rose through the years, some of which had
distinct dots in the middle and some had crowns. I'm
rather looking for something l
Hi all,
I'd like to embroider some Tudor roses on a shift
and I cannot draw, really cannot draw. So I would
like to know if there is somewhere on-line I can find
black and white line drawings of Tudor roses,
preferably the five petal kind. Books with this kind
of line drawing would also be gre
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