http://www.abcgallery.com/W/weyden/weyden40.JPG Rogier van der Weyden, The Adoration of the Magi, central panel of the St Columba altar piece c1455. Rt hand...
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Marc Carlson
imarcc
Mar 30, 2005 8:35 pm
... I can't access that painting, but I think I know the work. ... Actually that's just a belt :) The garters are worn further down. What's in the picture is...
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Aliskye
alizkye
Mar 30, 2005 10:28 pm
... monopoly ... Go Bonnie! :) aliskye (who works at Fox but in the Television Legal affairs department)....
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Elizabeth Walpole
e_walpole
Mar 30, 2005 10:38 pm
Hi everyone, Although the subject is a bit misleading this isn't about garb that's quick to make but garb that's quick and easy to put on over mundane clothes....
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Crystal Gold
kiri_2100
Mar 31, 2005 12:36 am
If you haven't seen it already, Janet Arnold has a pattern for a loose gown (drafted from an extant garment) in her book: Patterns of Fashion. I believe the...
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John Gibson
scjdg
Mar 31, 2005 12:36 am
... My friend wears a (Don't trust my spelling) Quasi-Coat. Simplistic, it looks like a loose dress with buttons down it. Her husband is a Mongol, but I have...
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msgilliandurham
Mar 31, 2005 1:37 am
I have made a ropa ("loose gown") and worn it to several summer events successfully. It's basically just a very long vest, if you don't sew in the sleeves. I...
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Mary Taran
oh_mobi
Mar 31, 2005 2:46 am
... Kass McGann sells a full-sized pattern that is a close reproduction of the Arnold pattern as #204 at ...
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Sarah
aranel13
Mar 31, 2005 4:54 am
Yes ma'am, you surely may! Sarah ... Subject: Re: OT: Lessons from Sewing (humor) Sarah, May I print that out and put it up in my workroom? You SO hit the...
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m d b
neimhaille
Mar 31, 2005 5:56 am
hellow Elizabeth, I know you doTudor so I think a loose gown is probbaly not to far from this, at least less of a change if youw ere to do say a Tunic;) If...
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m d b
neimhaille
Mar 31, 2005 5:56 am
Greetings, ... If you find any let me know;) I've tried hunting in woodcuts, searching Spanish books.. and I just can't seem to find much. Though there is...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 12:05 pm
Okay kids. Time to solve a riddle. I've posted these three photos of a drawnwork coif in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh (photos scanned from pg 205...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 2:21 pm
Hi Elizabeth, I don't know how far into "the future" you're willing to go, but I love my English Jackets. They're easy to make, easy to wear, easy to throw on...
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Cornelia
cgmmuncke
Mar 31, 2005 2:48 pm
Hi Kass, Could there be a confusion of terms here? How I get it, you might be confusing the lace at the "edge" of the coif (which could be anything from Occhi...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 3:06 pm
Hi Cornelia, ... lace at ... the ... offence ... No offense taken! The caption says "Drawnwork coif" so I really don't know what they meant. That's why I'm...
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Lady_Lark_Azure
Mar 31, 2005 3:10 pm
... be confusing the lace at ... bobbinlace, since the ... coif. (Please, no offence ... To clarify terms. Drawnwork is where one direction of threads is...
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Cornelia
cgmmuncke
Mar 31, 2005 3:11 pm
... On the joking note.... if you want to split hairs, yes, the threads are drawn, but at some point they have to be cut...... ;) Cornelia...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 3:21 pm
... I would argue that you can have drawnwork where both warp and weft threads are removed, but the edges are not bound. This is the case with the drawnwork...
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Despair Bear
despairbear
Mar 31, 2005 3:33 pm
... This reminds me of the "viking coat" shorter that what you are reffering to buy could serve the same function. Godric of Castlemont ...
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Lady_Lark_Azure
Mar 31, 2005 3:45 pm
... threads are ... drawnwork jacket I ... True, but the only times I've ever seen that is when it's taken from the entire ground like your jacket, not a...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 3:50 pm
... Yeah. I agree that the other is far more common. But you know how I am about absolutes. So can we redefine "drawnwork" to include threads drawn from one...
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dona_violante
Mar 31, 2005 3:51 pm
I'm reading about costumes references in 11th c. Moorish poetry, and one costume term the author translates from Arabic into French as: "robe-cotillon" I can't...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 4:09 pm
Modern French you mean? It means "ball gown". I don't know if that's really what the 11thc Moorish author meant however... Kass...
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therry17
Mar 31, 2005 5:22 pm
Can you give me the whole sentence? So, I can figure it out for you. Thérèse ... else...
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Katherine Throckmorton
katherinethr...
Mar 31, 2005 5:23 pm
... My suggestion would be to wear garb for set up, and tear down for that matter. I generally set up wearing just a smock and a kirtle and then put on my...
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wodeford
Mar 31, 2005 6:18 pm
... love my English ... moment's ... I'll let you know when I get MINE finished. It occurred to me that attempting to fit the thing without the right...
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Kass McGann
kass1013
Mar 31, 2005 6:34 pm
... Good show, Jehanne! Just for the record, Jehanne is making the 1630s version with boned underbodice. The version I was referring to above was the unboned...
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dona_violante
Mar 31, 2005 6:44 pm
... that's really what ... Yes, modern French. The Arabic word was qaba, which to judge by context was a kind of robe or tunic worn by dancing girls. In...
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wodeford
Mar 31, 2005 6:57 pm
... underbodice. Yeah, I got adopted by an English Civil War unit. Go figure. BTW, I got a roll of reed for boning at the Caning Shop in Berkeley (which also...
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wodeford
Mar 31, 2005 6:59 pm
... Might this be of use? http://games.rengeekcentral.com/ has images from Alfonso X's Book of Games with men and women in both Moorish and Christian Spanish...
