Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-16 Thread Lavolta Press
What I liked was the toothbrush earrings. That book is priceless. Fran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. Does it show? :-D I especially liked the ceremonial collar. (See, I knew it had some costume content!) -Carol Did you ever read a graphic novel called "Motel of the Mysteries," fea

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-15 Thread aquazoo
Yes. Does it show? :-D I especially liked the ceremonial collar. (See, I knew it had some costume content!) -Carol > Did you ever read a graphic novel called "Motel of the Mysteries," > featuring the archaelogical discovery of a 20th-century motel? > > Fran > Lavolta Press > http://www.l

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-14 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 4/14/2006 3:30:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you ever read a graphic novel called "Motel of the Mysteries," featuring the archaelogical discovery of a 20th-century motel? Rather OT, but required reading for all historians! Ann Wass ___

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-14 Thread Lavolta Press
Did you ever read a graphic novel called "Motel of the Mysteries," featuring the archaelogical discovery of a 20th-century motel? Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm imagining the reenactor of the future doing light research about people in the earl

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-14 Thread aquazoo
I'm imagining the reenactor of the future doing light research about people in the early 21stC wearing corn. They will do extensive experiments with spinning and weaving the corn silk - we must have lost that technology! And then someone will find a corn-husk doll and understand that i

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-13 Thread Lalah
Corn - the new peanut. Sounds like they are trying to make corn into everything from clothes to gas. However, thin, not stretcy fabric sounds good and the dress in the picture looks floaty enough for anyone. Hope they don't use all the corn up - I like eating it. Lalah, Never give up, Never su

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-13 Thread Sue Clemenger
g with wool and silk and linen! ;o) Heck, you can even get yarn/fiber made from bamboo! --Sue - Original Message - From: "Ailith Mackintosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:57 AM Subject: [h-c

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-13 Thread AnnBWass
In a message dated 4/13/2006 6:18:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: now I have heard of textiles made from the cellulose in soy, but milk? Actually, these are regenerated PROTEIN fibers, as rayon is a regenerated cellulose fiber. Milk protein fabrics were big in

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-13 Thread WickedFrau
Milk??? Hmmm, now I have heard of textiles made from the cellulose in soy, but milk? I can't remember right now which product, but either "Silk" soy milk, or "Vitasoy" has a little history of all the textile stuff that Henry Ford tried to use soy for. Some of my spinner friends don't particu

Re: [h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-13 Thread Carolyn Kayta Barrows
I found the link in a friend's blog - fabric made from corn. Really! There are knitting yarns made of this already, and yarns made of milk. In, I believe, the 1880s, the new fiber was one made of wood (Rayon). CarolynKayta Barrows dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian www.Fu

[h-cost] Has anyone heard of the new fabric?

2006-04-12 Thread Ailith Mackintosh
I found the link in a friend's blog - fabric made from corn. Really! http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12225701/site/newsweek/ Wonder how much it truly costs... ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume