From: Angelina Whitford
Subject: RE: HNW - Silk floss source?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:28:15 -1000
Ginger's Needlearts & Framing
5322 Cameron Road
Austin, TX 78723
Phone: (512) 454-5344
Fax: (512) 454-1489
Mail Orders: (800) 982-8444
Business Hours: Monday through Saturday 9 am to 6 pm
They stock Madeira silk floss, buttonhole-twisted silk, as well as some hand-dyed varieties. I find they will try to get anything they don't stock if you ask.
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From: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 09:40:31 -1000
Subject: RE: HNW - Silk floss source?
Nancy's Notions carries just about all the Madeira threads.
http://www.nancysnotions.com
Jane W.
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From: "BaT20"
Subject: Re: HNW - Silk floss source?
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 13:15:44 -1000
Here is the madeira website, you can order a catalog and then order directly from them:
http://www.pacificharbor.com/scs/scssilk.htm
Here is the kreinik website, where you can view the threads but only retail
shops can order from them:
http://www.kreinik.com/
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From: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 10:07:32 -1000
Subject: Re: HNW - Silk floss source?
Linda M. Blowney
7030 Greene Street
Philadelphia, PA 19119
The floss I carry is actually produced by Alyce Schroth of Doylestown, PA. She also
does 17th century sampler kits using the silk threads. If you would like her information,
ask me again! I will contact her and make sure it's ok to release it.
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 02:29:34 -1000
Subject: Re: HNW - Silk floss source?
I am the only SCA source. Some local specialty stores might carry it. If anyone
wants a card with DMC equivalent numbers and a list of natural dyes used for each color, send a request to me - I'll mail it out to you.
Linda (it's just a sideline, but they are great threads)
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From: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:43:47 -1000
Subject: Re: HNW - more book recommendations
_Art of the Embroiderer_ by Charles Germain de Saint-Aubin, Designer to the King, 1770. Translated and annotated by Nikki Scheuer, published by Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1983, ISBN: 0-87587-110-0. I've seen this slipcased hardbound book in used book stores for varying prices: one friend got it for $10, I saw one in Albuquerque for $50, and I bought it at $23, so try bargaining, if you find it. It has the original French, a translation, and photographs of items in the LACMA collection for illustrations. It included photos of a Court coat and waistcoat, Italy, c. 1800, and a sleeved waistcoat c. 1730 from Central Europe, and and English one ca. 1780, and several others, for the lady who expressed an interest in that period.
_The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries_ , Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium, Sept. 21-24, 1987, published by the Getty Conservation Institute in 1989. ISBN: 0-89236-154-9. This large format paperback is expensive for its slim size, but has some excellent close ups of some Opus Anglicanum work that some of
the speakers were conserving/restoring. Very readable. I got mine at the Getty in Malibu (now closed, and the new one doesn't open till Christmas -- can one go into museum withdrawal? I haven't had a good manuscript fix in months!), but I believe that they keep it in print.
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Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:27:29 -1000
From: Jacquie
Subject: HNW - tablet weaving
Earlier today, Ben Levick asked about a tablet-weaving list. I asked a friend of
mine who is interested in weaving, including tablet weaving. Here is her response,
I hope it helps!
>I know of 2 lists that deal with tablet weaving. Both have SCA and non-SCA
>people on them. Neither is terribly busy. Peter Collingwood occasionally
>posts on both, but more often on the non-SCA list. Sometimes other
>techniques (such as Sprang or ply-splitting) come up on both lists. The SCA
>list is more focused on historical (i.e. pre 1600) tablet weaving. The
>non-SCA list is a little busier (meaning you might get a message every day).
>Information about the SCA list can be found at:
>http://www.mtsu.edu/~kgregg/SCA/cards.html
>Feel free to subscribe to the Tablet Weaving discussion group by sending a
message to: >[email protected] with a message body of
>SUB CARDS-L YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_LAST_NAME
>Information about the non-SCA list can be found at:
>http://www.bolis.com/L/listinfo/tabletweaving
>To subscribe: send e-mail to [email protected] with the words:
>SUBSCRIBE TABLETWEAVING END
>in the message area. You do not need to include your name or e-mail
>address. You must subscribe for yourself with the e-mail coming from the
>e-mail address to which you want TabletWeaving mail to be sent. This kind
>of subscription will get you individual list messages, sent as received.
>To subscribe to the DIGEST send e-mail to [email protected] with the
>words:
>SUBSCRIBE TABLETWEAVING-DIGEST END
>in the message area. You do not need to include your name or e-mail
>address. You must subscribe for yourself with the e-mail coming from the
>e-mail address to which you want TabletWeaving mail to be sent. Be sure to
>include the hyphen between tabletweaving and digest. This kind of
>subscription will get you a group of messages sent as a single message with
>a table of contents. Depending on the number of messages, a digest may be
>daily or more or less frequent.
Jacquie Samples
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From: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:31:07 -1000
Subject: HNW - Embroidery articles in Recent Ars Caidis
As promised, here is a list of my needlework articles in recent issues of Ars Caidis. Subscriptions by mail are $15/year (4 issues), each issue is about 30-40 pp. each. The editor can be reached at [email protected]. I am not the editor, merely a frequent contributor and avid reader. I believe some back issues are available, but I don't know which ones.
October 1997 -- (not out yet, so I'm not sure which article, or maybe both, might appear) -- "A Survey of Tudor/ Jacobean Blackwork Styles." -- I divided the styles into 14 sub-styles, to look at them more closely, and "Spanish Blackwork Embroidery from Paintings" documents every single Spanish blackwork instance I could find (not many!)
January 1997 -- "Elizabethan Embroidery: The Scrolling Stems Design." -- principals of design that they used, where it came from, etc.
October 1996 -- "Elizabethan Scrolling Stems Embroidery: Artifacts and Photographs" -- a listing of where to find pictures of surviving artifacts.
I am currently working on an update of this that will go on the web site I'm designing for myself.
July 1996 - Assisi Embroidery: Medieval and Modern Characteristics" and "Assisi Embroidery: Four Examples from the Victoria and Albert Museum."
Costumers might be interested in the July 1997 issue for articles on Ruff Construction by Mistress Louise of Woodsholme, and construction of men's hose by Master Giles Hill of Sweetwater, among other articles.
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 10:47:30 -1000
From: Decker
Subject: Re: HNW - Silk floss source?
At 08:29 9/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>anyone wants a card with DMC equivalent numbers and a list of natural dyes
>used for each color, send a request to me - I'll mail it out to you.
Please send a list to me either e-mail or snail mail:
Ruth Decker
2446 PeEll McDonald Rd
Chehalis, WA 98532
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 09:28:35 -1000
From: Wendy Robertson
Subject: HNW - Knitting bibliography
Brears, Peter C.D. "The knitting sheath" Folk life, 20 (1981-82) p.16-40.
Buckland, Kirstie. "The Monmouth cap" Costume, No. 13 (1979) p.23-37.
Croft, Pauline. "The rise of the English stocking export trade" Textile history, 18/1 (spring 1987) p.3-16.
Ponting, K.G. "Knitted caps" Bulletin de Liaison du Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens Lyon, no.49 (1979) p.78-81.
Rutt, Richard. A history of hand knitting. Loveland, Co. : Interweave Press, 1982. 0934026351
Thirsk, Joan. "The fantasitcal folly of fashion : the English stocking industry, 1500-1700", p. 50-73. In Textile History and Economic History : Essays in Honour of Miss Julia de Lacy Mann. Edited by N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting. Manchester : University Press, 1973. ISBN 0719005388
Turnau, Irena. "The diffusion of knitting in medieval Europe" in Cloth and clothing in medieval Europe : essays in memory of Professor E.M. Carus-Wilson, edited by N.B. Harte and K.G. Ponting (Pasold Studies in Textile History 2), p.368-89. London : Heinemann, 1983. 0435323822
Turnau, Irena. History of knitting before mass production. Translated by
Agnieszka Szonert. Warszawa : Institute of the History of Material Culture, Polish Academy of Sciences, 1991. Originally published under:
Historia dziewiarstwa europejskiego do poczatku XIX wieku (Wroclaw : Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolinskich, 1979).
Turnau, Irena. "The history of peasant knitting in Europe : a framework for research" Textile History, 17/2 (autumn 1986) p.167-179.
Turnau, I. "Knitted caps and hats in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century" Bulletin de Liaison du Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens, no.61-62 (1985) p.87-90.
Turnau, Irena. "The knitting crafts in Europe from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century". The Bulletin of the Needle and Bobbin Club, v. 65, nr 1-2, 1982, pp. 20-42.
Victoria and Albert Museum. Knit one, purl one : historic and contemporary knitting from the V & A's collection. [London] : The Museum, 1987.
Woolley, Linda. "Arab-Islamic textiles : the Bouvier Collection, medieval
Arab-Islamic textiles" Hali, v.16 (Aug./Sept. 1994) p.94-103.
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