Re: [h-cost] Non destructive testing for wool/synthetic

would definitely identify the fibres :) Michaela On 18 August 2016 at 18:46, Elizabeth Jones wrote: > Hi everyone, > This is not directly historical but I knew this list would be my best > chance of an answer. > My uncle sent my 2 month old son a gift of a hand knitted cardi

Re: [h-cost] Patterns available at LACMA

, including cloth layouts. On 9 February 2016 at 12:11, michaela de bruce wrote: > There are heaps of patterns and guides already, it's just many books are > now OOP. Waugh did her (nicely sized) book some time ago, and same with the > Danish National Museum (some of which are onlin

Re: [h-cost] Patterns available at LACMA

There are heaps of patterns and guides already, it's just many books are now OOP. Waugh did her (nicely sized) book some time ago, and same with the Danish National Museum (some of which are online as pdfs- and there are a range of garments tidenstoj*- but I understand the books are really huge- or

Re: [h-cost] searching for 1887 misses' fashion illustrations

I know I have a number of group photos from the 1880s, but they are obviously dressed for the photos. http://store.doverpublications.com/0486265331.html I think may be one of the books, the other was a huge tome, green cover, just trying to remember the name. https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/

Re: [h-cost] What's your dummy wearing this season?

canning so, ugh. Got that to look forward to. I also have an Elsa spring gown to make (Frozen Fever) as the ice gown sleeves can get a little warm at big children's events :) Michaela -- http://arrayedindreams.com https://instagram.com/i.chimaera/ https://www.facebook.com

Re: [h-cost] Costumes in "War and Peace"

;s bias-cut > fabrics. It is only with the passage of time that one can see clearly how > all-pervasive the designer's contemporary aesthetics have been." It is one > of my favourite costume books, it has given me an extra layer of fun when I > watch the wonderful old movies. &g

Re: [h-cost] 1880s hair-styling terms: crimps and "fedoras"

he >> whole thing in place and let it dry. Yep, Harper's Bazaar even has a how to on this for the very late 1860s or early 1870s. I've done it and you get super super crimped and frizzy hair! Regards, Michaela de Bruce -- http://arrayedindreams.com http://neimhaille.tumblr.com h

Re: [h-cost] gauging for gathers?

7;s skirt has pleats that are wider than they are deep, or rather there are narrow knife pleats with expanses of unpleated fabric. Not really something you can rigorously calculate ;) Michaela -- http://arrayedindreams.com http://neimhaille.tumblr.com http://glittersweet.deviantart.com

Re: [h-cost] Hooks & bars problem

x27;ve been super careful with my stitches to be neater on the outside than inside ;) Luckily most of the guarding I do sits about 5mm from the edge so it's quite perfect to hide stitches. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Victorian Hair:

the theme of ponytail wrapped and twisted. http://costumes.glittersweet.com/historical/19thc/1880sheer.htm That's how I did this, though without time to dress myself as well as others I didn't use any spray or anything to help my hair stay fluffy all day. Michaela de Bruce h

Re: [h-cost] google images

e images it by passes the framed page. Unfortunately the owners of the site have a lot of domain names pointing to the same files and use a lot of catch phrases to appear first in the pages of links google provides. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___

Re: [h-cost] The term "hennin"

of his virility." http://tinyurl.com/ybn59lo A dictionary of sexual language and imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature Volume 2 By Gordon Williams. Michaela who spent many years studying Shakespeare and Chaucer and cannot think of these times as prude in any way shape or form ;)

Re: [h-cost] Dream costume project

orical side. I do media recreations as well and have been getting through my backlog of Want to Do :) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com http://glittersweet.deviantart.com http://pinkdiamond.livejournal.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-c

Re: [h-cost] Laser scissors

d really only useful if you have a steady hand to begin with ;) And you wouldn't need a guide. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Curtain tape as costume supply item?

or waist tape and other support type uses. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Lacing question

I do though like a thin ribbon for my effigy stays, Even if I wind up cutting the ends to get out quickly. That has a little to do with my small eyelets but also a lot to do with the lacing sitting on the front where my hooks and eyes in my doublets do up. Regards, Michaela http://glitterswee

Re: [h-cost] Question about a portrait

parliament.net/nssMovies/01/0169/0169_.htm http://www.explore-parliament.net/nssMovies/01/0193/0193_.htm I must flee or I'd have fun looking for other interpretations. They seem to tell a lot about the period they are created in. Michaela http://glittersweet.com

Re: [h-cost] German early Renaissance gowns

he very informative file section (including translations and explanations of clothing terms from the time). They certainly paint a picture of the most likely ways to make these, and there are a few variations possible. Michaela http://costumes.glittersweet.com

Re: [h-cost] Elizabethan Pair of Bodies for a petite figure.

perience as the original wearer. regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com On 5/21/09, Melanie Schuessler wrote: > Yes, but this version of the corset doesn't have boning in the sides and > back--only down the front. On a slender figure, it's not really a problem > u

[h-cost] Judging styles was Re: losing points in judging

riteria to work on. I think we took two hours to judge 6 hats last weekend. Comments and marking schedule included. Michaela de Bruce http://costumes.glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Yardage and Rambling, was: Re: Pattern for red dress on Dr Who

nder what to do with my 10 or more metres of red (scarlet and nearly wine red shot) silk taffeta :) Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Peacock Wedding Dress

Was a great mimic of the real deal right next to it ;) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com On 4/14/09, app...@aol.com wrote: > The skirt is awesome, but I really hate the print bodice. They couldn't find > something that actually matched the feathers? >

Re: [h-cost] measuring question for pleats

case of how to best fit the two pieces that you have. Michaela, Who did actually take maths (calculus) all the way to university. But fabric is not paper and you don't have to have the same rules as you do with geometry. http://glittersweet.com On 3/12/09, Aylwen Garden wrote: > I guess this

Re: [h-cost] Corset boning with zip ties

(these use a small metal tip to tie). regards, Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Mary I ???

d as Mary Stuart. Regards, Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Victorian corset on UK TV- & wearing a corset

nto my back and the hips can be fitted more snugly. For spiral laced garments I still the lacing in the front. I do want to be able to always dress myself as easily as I'm able to. Everyone's mileage varies in this aspect ;) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___

Re: [h-cost] More 1890s film discovered

Wow! Thanks for posting this :) I just forwarded the link withthe video in it. Amazing it's incredibly clear so I suspect there was a spot of restoration that went into it! The woman with the neck ruff, amazing to see a fashion in motion like that :) And all the hats... Michaela

Re: [h-cost] Corsetry issues (was Looking for "bad" examples)

r issues. Most of the time I do stick it out, but I'm looking at having to change how I do things. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Spanish gown

from armscye to tip. The front curve in the Alcega looks like the start of the cut away style seen in a few early 16thC gowns heavily influenced by the Spanish fashion. Regards, Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail

Re: [h-cost] More help with Spanish gown

ac.uk/content/proj/anglo/dict/pro-anglo-dict-main.html Mongia,f.monkerie Mongil,m.a monks garment, a mourning garment for a woman Mongilon, a mourning garment for a woman. In the men's section there are some religious themed garments as well. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com _

Re: [h-cost] Spanish gown

les in art, so it's not going to be quite the same shape as you would get extrapolating from the art as I was doing. It also has a gentle curve up the back of the arm, which again makes me happier about my own pattern. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com _

Re: [h-cost] Spanish gown

>> Oh! Yes there is a bit of a layout if you look at an extant gown that >> is laid flat: http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/extant.htm > > Two things bother me about this sleeve. On the site, she mentions that they > were cut at the top to accomodate the statue, and also they seem to be two > pl

Re: [h-cost] Help with Alcega was: Re: Spanish gown

ible) in a silk twill I bought in pistachio green, and have wine toned velvet casings if I can budget it. There will also be enough to make a matching corset (corpo baxo/corpino) though they tended to match the kirtle- thus why Alcega has them in the same pattern qui

Re: [h-cost] More help with Spanish gown

ness of style. http://www.allposters.com/-st/Alonso-Sanchez-Coello-Posters_c65778_.htm That may have been oil on canvas (according to another poster site). Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] More help with Spanish gown

sed over into artwork, or the skirts were on occasion cut the same way. I don't really think so though given the pattern repeats in portraits don't bear this out. And the faldallin are cut so there is no vertical seam in the front. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com __

Re: [h-cost] More help with Spanish gown

t in the very back where I want it and the tension in the pleats will keep the fabric from falling too far forward. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Spanish gown

o) and hanging sleeves of several types. Oh and you are lucky! The portrait of Ana does not having a matching carcanet and girdle! It is so hard finding enough metal findings to make such matching items... very annoying. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 1490s Spanish help

port this idea rather more than a regular waisted garment? No idea if it is true or not but I could believe the rumour started after seeing this particular style! Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mai

Re: [h-cost] Farthingale thoughts

nation. This is from Hispanic Costume and the author comparing the colours in several text (inventories and wardrobe accounts etc.) Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 1490s Spanish help

finishes at the waist, such as the two main figures in the Herod image. I have seen, and cannot find it again, a c1500s painting with the Madonna weeping and what may be side lacing. But I cant find it again so that may be poor memory. Regards, Michaela http://costumes.glittersweet.com *lj, bl

Re: [h-cost] portraits?

This thread has seriously derailed my current thoughts where were in armour and modern costume mode. And I seriously need to redo links all over the show as Gabrius has departed. But now I have a whole lot of new links to replace them with :D Regards, Michael

Re: [h-cost] portraits?

html http://pintura.aut.org/BU04?Autnum=11.516 The softness and roundness of the way her features have been painted as well as the style of dress. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] drafting/scaling corsets to size, was: Corset pattern 1895

now suit an 1890s line of corset which is fairly close to what I have wound up making my alterations to my 1880s corset. I just know it fits well as it is apart from the adjustments to the upper half. Michaela de bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Help finding image

/lowerclass/flemish-dress.html And scroll down. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com On 4/4/08, otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monica, > When a url is large you can shrink it here > http://tinyurl.com/ > > Thank you, > De > > > -Original Message---

Re: [h-cost] Knife pleating:

tly pressed with heat. Cotton and linen will eventually lose the crisp edge. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Finding information

ar types of searches which you can then take to your library's ILL librarian:) Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Re: Linen costume question

't work!) Oy, typos got through.. make that "skirts turn back" Michaela de Bruce http://costumes.glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Re: Linen costume question

so I was able to use that little. For a narrower fabric I would have plotted to get more shaping in the back of the skirt to be able to get my full sleeves or just made a short sleeved gown only. I also have 6m of wide wool in cream to get through and I'm thinking surcoat and kirtle. regar

Re: [h-cost] Re: Colored shirts in the 16th century?

raying edges. " http://www.pleatworkembroidery.com/recreating.php Others may be able to say for sure if woollens were ever worn directly against the body. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.ind

Re: [h-cost] Cleves/Colgne dres., was Found it! - Colored shirts in the 16th century?

the same lines used to indicate brocade cloth on these belts: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bartholom%C3%A4us_Bruyn_d._%C3%84._002.jpg The lines go widthways which makes sens if they are woven specifically to that width. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com __

Re: [h-cost] Found it! - Colored shirts in the 16th century?

painting was talking about the gown not the inner layer.) And another of one of the Emperors but in his case (painted terracotta bust) it looks like there is a high necked shirt underneath. Michaela de Bruce (Cleves/Cologne is my "pet" area and I have been trawling through approp

Re: [h-cost] OT: Keeping hair in bun

shred your hair. I was introduced to them as an extra on Xena et al. and spent ages trying to track them down. Luckily my mother is a hairdresser so she can get them at trade price:) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costu

Re: [h-cost] Another German Gown

ay well have been overpainted at a later date. Chranach was churning these ladies out like nobodies business it seems because they were a good seller. This one is a particularly rushed job compared to some of his finer more carefully painted figures. Michaela http:/

Re: [h-cost] Another German Gown

a? Not just artistic licence: http://pintura.aut.org/SearchProducto?Produnum=132982 But Cranach did tend to be a little creative with his art. Sometimes the rings under the glove sit higher on the finger than a ring over the glove. Ah Pintura. I keep forgetting you despite the many hours I have spent was

Re: [h-cost] Duchess Katherine von Mecklenburg. was: Enough!!!!!..... and a return

ll see the pattern inside the scroll work on the red is deliberate and made to fit the scrolls. I've been hunting for a clearer image but can't find one tonight. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmakers dummy wearing?

at this point because I really am at the very beginning stages! She does though have a full length body suit stitched in place so she can have more defined butt cheeks and breasts which will help in drafting trousers and other body suits later. Michaela http://gli

Re: [h-cost] chain of office for Elizabethan

liffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex (1526/7-83) , three-quarter-length, in the robes, collar and George of the Order of the Garter, holding the Lord Chamberlain's white rod" "The present portrait can be counted among those that post-date his appointment as Lord Chamberlain in 1572, since he i

Re: [h-cost] Costume brag books online

e had to plan lunch > in a local restaurant & bring photo albums. Yep:) Since 1999 but it's shifted about and had a few makeovers;) http://costumes.glittersweet.com Now off to go look at the links before me. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com

Re: [h-cost] Tudor sleeves again (sort of)

ound them (but not into the elastic) then tack one end, pull the other to fit tack that down, trim of the excess. The area will gather a little when not worn but fit smoothly when worn. http://hungryzombiecouture.blogspot.com/2007/08/butterick-4745-simplicity-3837.html Described a little

Re: [h-cost] Re: Updates to my Site

d your site ROCKS! Thank you:) It's going to undergo a cosmetic change as well, probably incorporating my style sheets from my personal costume section but altered to suit the nature of the topics. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com

[h-cost] Updates to my site, input desired

as it may clutter the list up.) My own costume section needs updating too but that will have to wait as I have no pictures of recent work that really shows it off well. And I need to get permission to use images;) Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glitte

Re: [h-cost] Machine versus thread

e black. And that goes for their poly thread as well. I wonder if it has anything to do with the dye being corrosive on the thread at all. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glitterswet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] The Golden Age(film)/Dracula

> Really? What period? I'd have to dig up the reference, but the robe and particularly the hair (yes, the butt-hair) were based on 15th-century Romanian burial costume. I'm pretty sure the book of the costumes said they were based on Kabuki costume rather than anything European. That said Lucy's

Re: [h-cost] WOT Bjarne,

its in with the usage of the term in clothing. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] WOT Bjarne,

of a specific place (now meaning folk dress) Trachtenbucher of the 16thC were books of dress of different lands. What is the context, and what is it in a Ducth, German or Danish book? It may mean to dress the dish;). I've never know it to mean to try. Michael

[h-cost] Latest project, red and black

this stage, but everything else is under control. Except my ceremony. Which I need to organise later today. Michaela (SCA Willemyne van Nymegen) http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

[h-cost] Latest project, red and black "German" renaissance

dice http://pinkdiamond.livejournal.com/736609.html Fit of bodice with guards and the pearling of my Haube (caul) and how much I had to undo... I'm worried about the underskirt and ruffs not being done at this stage, but everything else is under control. Except my ceremony. Which I need to organise later today.

Re: [h-cost] Sofie in the garden at Gammel Estrup.

The nicest picture i got from Gammel Estrup. Just wanted to share. http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/t26.htm Exquisite Bjarne:) I was a little busy when you had posted the different ways you were going to trim the gown and I'm pleased you decided on what you did. I really should get ba

Re: [h-cost] WOT Bjarne,

o try. In Dutch it means "to try" now (according to babelfish anyway), so the context is going to be very important. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Inner Stiffening

mottled grey colour and is reasonably easy to get. It's light weight and washable. After washing it loses a little stiffness but it sound slike it will still be quite ideal for a light linen. Regards, Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___

Re: [h-cost] What R U doing this weekend

Willemyne has only a few letters after her name one of which already looks like OL;) Luckily that has changed to OGL! (Order of the Golden Lily rather than Order of the Lily.) I really need to decide on the translation of Mistress though. I need to decide on the Dutch or German translations. Michael

Re: [h-cost] What R U doing this weekend

"tag" "midwinter" you will find all my posts about it. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com Yes my costumes were in the house, no they weren't burnt but they were smoke andheat damaged to some degree but most have been salvageable. __

Re: [h-cost] lacing rings

depends on how big the ring needs to be. Michaela (about to use some of said large rings for my upcoming SCA garb project.) http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 16th Century Hats

I'd like to know what the link is between the use of the terms. Is it just and English term as well? I would like to do some hunting in texts of other lands. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 16th Century Hats

for it but couldn't find anything leading directly to it but it is probably in the British Library. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] 16th Century Hats

tm for canvas to the same iij d." (btw I love this "Itm for a grete basket for the Quenes stuf vj d"" for her "stuff") Mary's wardrobe accounts apparently include a fine paste buckram for a farthingale I think Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com _

Re: [h-cost] Bildindex is in English now!

your date fields to a few decades you can usually have enough to choose from without having to go through thousands of images. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com *Which I perfectly understand and I would expect from a place where English is not the main language!

Re: Netherlands Clothing early 17th century-preganacy etc....Was:[h-cost] RE: Done! A few pics from the Golden Age dress.

ww.bildindex.de/bilder/mi01483b10b.jpg Couwenbergh, Christiaen Gillisz. van, Bildnis einer Frau, 1660, Bild, Köln, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, 2178 Some of these are more obviously shaped by the skirt than others though. They are a very regional atyle though I think. Michaela de Bruce h

[h-cost] Extant Rennaisance Spanish Dress

tuming journal: http://pinkdiamond.livejournal.com (if anyone happens to come across this in an h-cost mail archive it will be around the 28th Feb-1st March 2007.) Several of these are Dutch and it is tempting to add yet another setion to my site;) Michaela de Bruce http://costu

Re: [h-cost] Schaube

lcega are also of a similar design. Many men wear them in portraits by German artists, and there are a number of them for women but they are usually seen full length in woodcuts or illuminations etc. Michaela who just handed on her Scahube as it was much too

Re: victorian wedding clothes, was [h-cost] Another film costume rant

rde site are wearing clothing to the neck. None of the fashion plates show the lower necked style for weddings (though there are rather more open necks for day wear.) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] Spanish costume/Alcega

lp acheive that cone shape of he skirt. Maybe these were worn with the doublet type bodice at the start of the book. I am going to look closer in the various Trachtenbuchen of the time to see if there is any representation of dress other than what we see in portraits of the time that may shed a ligh

Re: [h-cost] 15th c. lower skirt mystery (was: 1450 - pregnant?)

little over the white. http://gallica.bnf.fr/scripts/mediator.exe?F=C&L=07815488&I=01 Image 69. R?lte de la sauge Cote : Latin 9333 , Fol. 34v This is one of my favourite MSs and is full of really lovely garments. I only linked to a handful of interesting images but there

Re: [h-cost] Gack! Is she pregnant or is she not? Need your opinions!

I suspect you have your email set to html/rich text not plain text and all urls are thus automatically turned into links. You should be able to fix the settings, we can in hotmail for instance and hotmail is part of MSN. Plain text is the format most mailing lists prefer anyway. Michaela http://gl

Re: [h-cost] corset boning

e fronts and centre backs to support the lacing and create vertical tension which helps support the plastic. Michaela de Bruce ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: [h-cost] iron corset

> 65cm bust. http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1487_renaissance/rituals.html This is one of the few that really does look to be an original as the shape is right. Michaela http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Re: Sewing speeds was Re: [h-cost] Re: gores in skirt in lateMiddleages???

erbust and the basques. My waist to hip is atm 71cm:98cm and I can get a rather narrow waist so I think the shaping helps with that but without compressing my ribs. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com (no idea how to work the rest of the costume into h-cost territory;) Unles

Re: Sewing speeds was Re: [h-cost] Re: gores in skirt in late Middleages???

don Expo and then "cosplay." It's a flash photo gallery. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume

Sewing speeds was Re: [h-cost] Re: gores in skirt in late Middle ages???

out. But then will put in linings by hand and finish hems etc that way. I have found putting in a seperate lining helps ease the hand sewing burden and am about to experiment the order I do the construction of my bodices in to see if I can reduce it even more. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.co

Re: [h-cost] Terminology of pleats

about as specific as it gets;) I have a feeling it was mostly a case of "make this fit the neatest way how." Michaela http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.4/475 - Release Date: 13/10

Re: [h-cost] Looking for German Royalty History Website

.kleio.org/bkatalog.html That should take you to a page where you can get to all the sections. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268

Re: [h-cost] iridescent fabric/weaving (& mind over matter)

hunt locally for simple green and black! Screes of red and black or rust and black or muddy grey and orange... but not green and black! Michaela http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Versio

Re: [h-cost] GFD and cleavage

vage.* I was only able to acheive it by a padded bra with extra padding supplied by shoulder pads and the front of the bra sewn so the underwires touched. Even then, no cleavage. Big bust, no crease. So I had to use bronzing powder to create it. Michaela de Bruce very lucky as most women in my

Re: [h-cost] Men' Flemish Garb

com is really good for finding the individual galleries for each Bruegel who painted. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/418 - Release Date: 14/08/2006

Re: [h-cost] Men' Flemish Garb

er/mi04530g08a.jpg Farmers? I think the figure on the left is female. http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi03974g09a.jpg Especially compared to this figure of a farmer's(?) wife. http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/mi03974g08a.jpg Woodcutters. I'm sure I've seen another costume study by Brueg

[h-cost] curved seams Re: new Simplicity Patterns

m above, though they are even more subtle than the front curves. A gentle curve can help acheive a slightly smoother fit as it gives just that little bit of stretch. Of course it's probably more noticeable in hand sewn garments. I noticed it more while pinning than once I'd used my machi

Re: new Simplicity Patterns (was RE: [h-cost] freeRegencybonnetpattern from Simplicity

to use it as a quickie costume pattern... but that's a whole other rant. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/401 - Release Date: 26/07/2006

Re: [h-cost] Pirates otC dress

p?name=167x_8&pfad=1600 http://www.marquise.de/database/dbout.php?name=167x_9&pfad=1600 http://www.marquise.de/database/dbout.php?name=1682_1&pfad=1600 Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message.

Re: [h-cost] German or Dutch headdress web page

cleves.htm As mentioned I wasn't too happy with my final result, but that was as much to do with feeling like the Flying Nun as not being satisfied with shape and materials. No idea if any of these are what you are after. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this ou

Re: [h-cost] invisible zip (ok, not v. historic!)

is metal painted cream. The dress is green.. Why not dye the tab? Paint takes dye, I've had a few mishaps in this regard, it won't chip off, except when the original piant will chip off. I also like the idea of a feature zip pull. But if that is an option, make sure her hair won't get t

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