Since I attended the Costume Colloquium, in Florence 2008, I have been awaiting this site to be up. Yeah for them! Check it out, use the resource but please respect the Italian copyright so we don't lose such a valuable tool!

http://archiviomedici.costume-textiles.com/

Linked on left so we can all find it later!

Dress is done. Here are some pics.
1. The partlet on with the stays and the dress (the necklace pendant was bought in Florence)

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my doco for the recent A&S competition is now up at:

http://katerina.purplefiles.net/FlorenceFiles/FLAccessoriesZEBELLINI.html

http://katerina.purplefiles.net/Dafydd/DFL_Capotto1.html

for those (locally) who I have been going on and on about the Mummy Dectective episode on the Medici tombs I saw in Florence and the lectures from the Textile conference.....
well...
according the the TV guide, that very epsiode is on the ABC tomorrow at 2.00pm (Adelaide time)...
check it out... then if you want, I can pull out the book too!
;.....

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found this again... had found a while ago and forgotten about....

It is not from the Florence Colloquium but is a similar lecture and is online for those who are into florence costume and archeology (which I found some of the more interesting lectures at the Colloqium)

Secrets of the Medici Tombs.. (lecture in Washington, 2006)
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tummy still not 100%. Back at work tomorrow. Had one day of my sick leave without pay. I have run out again!
:)

I got bored after sitting at home and sleeping for a few days...
so I got stuck into that hat. It is based on a Vecellio drawing of a middleaged Tuscan woman.... The pleating is large, brim small and it is not too fancy...

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My favourites: some majolica from a small shop that kirieldp  and catsathome  found (thanks for the address) and a replica pendant in a shop where I could have bought wayyyy too many nice things.... Unfortunately he does not do internet sales... sigh....

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We are home and recovering...
The Colloquium was fantastic and tiring at the same time.
The most significant things:

• Meeting  people in person: Roberta Orsi Landini (Mode a Firenze), Maria Hayward (Dress at the Court of Henry VIII), conservators and hearing lectures from them..
• meeting several of my LJ contadcts (am trying to put the faces to names ( Read more... )

got a cold/flu that has become a sinus infection... sore muscles from coughing ( Read more... )