Zero can be a very large number
Note: I wrote this earlier tonight, around 9, so the night is no longer young. I have, since then, ripped out the strap seams on the bodice.
I did absolutely no sewing today, past removing the lacing ribbons from the bodice. Yay, go me. The night is still young, though, so I could still conceivably mark the cutting lines and remove the stitching from the straps. Or I could curl up with the book that stole my motivation. The last one's most likely.
I did, however, dig through my jewelry box in pursuit of 16th-century jewelry, and I think I've found a ring that will do.
Does everyone think this looks acceptable for the 16th century? It is, in fact, an Avon ring, as AVON is stamped on the underside of the setting. This means that the metal is not gold, but fake, fake, fake. I can wear it on every finger except my pinkies and my right index finger. Oh, and my thumbs. So I can wear it on half my fingers.
I base its acceptability on this description of an emerald ring found in the Cheapside hoard: "There is an emerald rings set with seven stones, one in the center and six surrounding it to form a flower pattern." (On this page.) Yep, that's my ring, but with "pearls" and "turquoise".
I also found this assortment of tickery-tackery. Guys, it's either a treasure trove or I'm destined to move to Vegas (or the Dejope Casino, for people from Wisconsin).
I bought this at a garage sale this summer, for a whole dollar-fifty. I think I might have been overcharge by about a dollar. It's a huge, very heavy tiger's head pin with "emerald" eyes. Seriously, this thing should be part of a door knocker on a castle somewhere.
I bought it because it reminded me of the lion's head (detail) on La Bella Nani (1560). I love that painting to bits. You are all free to persuade me from creating La Bella Tigra. I don't know that that will stop me, though.
Yes, it's very ugly.
This is a small ship pin that bizarrely has a dragon's head at the prow (my thumb's covering it up), but Spanish crosses on the sails. I'm not sure what's up with that, but there's a portrait of Elizabeth Tudor with a similar ship pin on her bodice. Hers was probably was enameled gold and not whatever fauxness this one is. And English person probably wouldn't be wearing something with Spanish crosses on it.
I looked at the back. It's made in Spain, explaining the crosses on the flags. Not sure what's up with dragon head, though.
A squirrel charm that bears an uncanny resemblance to squirrels in period embroidery. Part of a Bath & Body Works gift set, ca. 1998. I would find using this as a pendant or ouch for a hat hilarious. Because I'm nutty like that. Mwah ha.
I did absolutely no sewing today, past removing the lacing ribbons from the bodice. Yay, go me. The night is still young, though, so I could still conceivably mark the cutting lines and remove the stitching from the straps. Or I could curl up with the book that stole my motivation. The last one's most likely.
I did, however, dig through my jewelry box in pursuit of 16th-century jewelry, and I think I've found a ring that will do.
Does everyone think this looks acceptable for the 16th century? It is, in fact, an Avon ring, as AVON is stamped on the underside of the setting. This means that the metal is not gold, but fake, fake, fake. I can wear it on every finger except my pinkies and my right index finger. Oh, and my thumbs. So I can wear it on half my fingers.
I base its acceptability on this description of an emerald ring found in the Cheapside hoard: "There is an emerald rings set with seven stones, one in the center and six surrounding it to form a flower pattern." (On this page.) Yep, that's my ring, but with "pearls" and "turquoise".
I also found this assortment of tickery-tackery. Guys, it's either a treasure trove or I'm destined to move to Vegas (or the Dejope Casino, for people from Wisconsin).
I bought this at a garage sale this summer, for a whole dollar-fifty. I think I might have been overcharge by about a dollar. It's a huge, very heavy tiger's head pin with "emerald" eyes. Seriously, this thing should be part of a door knocker on a castle somewhere.
I bought it because it reminded me of the lion's head (detail) on La Bella Nani (1560). I love that painting to bits. You are all free to persuade me from creating La Bella Tigra. I don't know that that will stop me, though.
Yes, it's very ugly.
This is a small ship pin that bizarrely has a dragon's head at the prow (my thumb's covering it up), but Spanish crosses on the sails. I'm not sure what's up with that, but there's a portrait of Elizabeth Tudor with a similar ship pin on her bodice. Hers was probably was enameled gold and not whatever fauxness this one is. And English person probably wouldn't be wearing something with Spanish crosses on it.
I looked at the back. It's made in Spain, explaining the crosses on the flags. Not sure what's up with dragon head, though.
A squirrel charm that bears an uncanny resemblance to squirrels in period embroidery. Part of a Bath & Body Works gift set, ca. 1998. I would find using this as a pendant or ouch for a hat hilarious. Because I'm nutty like that. Mwah ha.