Holbein in England

[frualeydis]

Yesterday I got the catalogue from the Holbein exhibition at Tate gallery (the web page has issues with IE but works fine in Firefox). It was nice and worth the price since it contained several drawings I hadn't seen before and interesting text. It's not what I would choose as my only Holbein book, but then; who has only one Holbein book?

I also brought back Revolution in fashion and Hans Weigel's Trachtenbuch from work so if just Maja agrees to amuse herself and I don't spend all day tidying up I shall have a nice day with lots of eye candy.

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[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

Due to the unfortunate robbery when I got to London, I had a shortage of available cash and my choice was, see the exhibition or buy the catalogue. I figured that they almost always have left-over catalogues available from exhibitions, and I'll be back in London by the end of January, so I went to see the pictures and left the catalogue for another day.

I just got, through inter-library loan, "Historical Fashion in Detail, the 17th and 18th Centuries" and spent last night closely studying the stitching on corsets and such. *drool*

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I realized I wouldn't be in London between the 28th of Septembr and January, so I ordered it from Amazon UK. I still would have liked to see the exhibition, but I guess you can't get everything.
I have Historical fashion in detail and I love it.

/Eva

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I would love to have that red corset with the white stitching. What do you use instead of whalebone for your corsets?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes, I want to make that one too. I think for that one I would have to order "plastic whalebone" from Wissner's in Germany. That's what tailordrews uses and he really is the best when it comes to 18th century corsets. Otherwise I mainly use cable ties from Claes Olsson. Unfortunately they don't come long enough for all the bones, since I have such a long torso, and then I use german plastic bones (https://www.farthingales.on.ca/plastic_bones.php), which I can get at my local sewing supplies store. I'm rather fond of those really, but cable ties are sturdier and cheaper.
I use them for different purposes. If I want somthing to be rigid, but with just a few bones I use cable ties, if I want more flexibility I use narrow german plastic boning. It's funny that Farthingales say that the narrow type is best used for doll's corsets. I used them for my first elizabethan corset, which was fully boned only in front, and they worked marvellously. Despite my not very doll-like built.

My planned new kirtle will have german boning in a few places.

/Eva