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Inspiration
I’ve been trying to make a more summer friendly wardrobe for some eras of interest and so have been looking in my Girl’s Own Paper articles from 1906-1911. So I just scanned the text for the fashion advice around this plate.
Girl’s Own Paper Vol. XXVIII- No 1404 NOVEMBER 24, 1906 Price One Penny
How a Girl Should Dress
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patterns
In line with the massive tidying of my digital collection of inspiration, I’m dealing with my stack of printed works that are a bit.. much. I’m doing this so I can get both my Kunstlischbuch and Modular Frock systems back online. I took down my free patterns to make them over into a seamless series. I got kicked out of a group for sharing my very ( Read more... ) -
Doing, maybe.
I have started and discarded so many posts because life has been hard. Not as hard as for many, but it’s been hard to find the focus and peace I need to work on projects. That peace might be to just be free of external sounds even if I’m playing music.
But I have genuinely finally managed to get the majority of my research and developed patterns ( Read more... ) -
i-chimaera
This is what I called myself due to not sticking to any costume or art genre. Today? I was infused with chimeric monoclonal antibodies at my local hospital. I’ve had them for years, but it’s still something I have to prepare for emotionally.
All of us in day stay are there because we need to be. And all the support we have in in light of this. The ( Read more... ) -
patterns
Of all kinds! The first patterns are learning my own sleep, rest, physical activity, and cognitive activity. The second is the patterns of fashion that change and emerge in the timeframe of my niche area, and the last are my own patterns that I’ve developed that work almost perfectly within the tailoring manuals of the time.
I do need to add these ( Read more... ) -
data collection continues
My quest to get a single portrait in context has finally reached a point where my decades long collection of images and articles is manageable. Letting me find similar images using more crude tools like reverse image search and “similar images” type searches. But so far I think I have the ability to make some fairly bold claims.
It’s been a bit of a ( Read more... ) -
research breakthroughs
I started tidying my 10,00s of thousands of files (no exaggeration) for my Anne of Cleves research and it’s lead to two solutions! The first is I was able to stop thinking directly about my pearlwork as the two techniques I know can be proven do not work with my own layer of support.
The tension of the threads holding the pearls in place has tended ( Read more... ) -
Progress
I’m still waiting on a dissertation to arrive, I totally understand why it’s taking a while! I have a summary that is still very useful, and finally a nice clear layout of where donor portraits were and to hopefully figure out a way to name each of the donors I’m interested in.
While that book works its way across the world, I’ve been putting all my ( Read more... ) -
searching searching searching, keep those digits searching
I am finally in a position to include images from outside my North Rhine focus. It honestly covers so much of Europe. I need to be able to put Anne of Cleves ensembles in context in her own lands, but also within the power structures across Europe as there is a tendency to only compare Anne and her fellow wives.
I needed to at least have the ruling ( Read more... )
