Re: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-29 Thread Nancy Neff
Thank you, Jane! What an informative long post. I'm saving the most useful posts in files, and yours is definitely one to keep! Thanks again for the work in putting all this together and out there for the rest of us. Nancy Connecticut, USA From: Jane Partridge

RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-29 Thread Bridget Marrow
HENRY VIII On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Sue Harvey wrote: I was lucky enough to get a couple of photos of Henry VIII and did notice that the front of his costumes seemed to be decorated with gold bobbin lace Hi Sue, you obviously had a wonderful day out at Hampton Court. Thank you for posting t

RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-22 Thread David C COLLYER
I was lucky enough to get a couple of photos of Henry VIII and did notice that the front of his costumes seemed to be decorated with gold bobbin lace I recall from the early 70s that there was a fabulous small museum in Stratford-upon-Avon which had life size wax figures of Henry VIII and Eli

RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-22 Thread Sue
Last summer I was lucky enough to win a weekend for 2 in Richmond with a trip down the Thames to the Hampton Court Flower Show I took my daughter with me and as we had a day on Sunday to ourselves we went to Hampton Court Palace not knowing that on that they had the whole day devoted to a celebrat

RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-21 Thread Sally Schoenberg
Whenever I make lace in a public place, someone is curious about when bobbin lace was first made, and I trot out my story about King Henry VIII of England - that lace does not appear on portraits painted during most of his lifetime. His daughter, Elizabeth I, on the other hand, was painted many tim

Re: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-21 Thread Laurie Waters
- From: "Barbara" To: "Laurie Waters" Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 7:49 AM Subject: Re: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Do you have the citation for the quote? It's excellent, and I talk about this when I do demos of early lace. Thanks, Barbara On 03/21/2010 7:54 A

RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes

2010-03-20 Thread Sue
David, you must be far behind us on television because I saw this whole marvellous series last year and I agree that the costumes were wonderful but unlike yourself did not spot the errors because I was too busy watching Jonathan Rhys-Mayers. Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK - To unsubscribe send email to