More Tour

[attack_laurel]

More things that come to mind...

Oh, everything.  None of this is going to be in any knid of chronological order - it's not like my mind has any such level of sophisticated organization, so it comes as it comes.  I just wanted to talk some more about my favourite jacket.

Comments

[vikingsparrow]

The good news about the jacket above is that Jen photographed the heck out of it while I held up the tape measure. So, if you ever do decide to make this one, you'll have all the original measurements as a baseline.

[tudorlady]

Have you, or do you know if anyone has patterned out the embroidery? (Will they let you do that?)

[ladysrepository]

I would hope that the museums would have these early pieces photographed from every angle with micro closeups, as it will be inevitable that one day, only the pictures remain. As fragile as they are, it would be a greater travesty to have them waste away without being properly documented while seams and construction techniques can be observed. What an important database that would be, and even moreso for research. Imagine being able to go to a Museum and say, I would like to see the file for such and such a jacket please.... and in it, have all measurements, materials list, provenance, photos, construction ect ect.

If you are able to use photos for teaching, I would gladly buy a set from you :) Yes, I need more teaching...wish I could travel and go see them myself!
kindest, rachael

[jillwheezul]

Thank you. Good to know they take donations. I wonder if there could be some sort of fund raising effort directly benefitting the museum with an attached mandate to photograph and carefully document the garment and publish it for the world. (I think the wider the dissemination of the info, the more likely it will be accessible to future generations.) Mebbe start a society with the aim of contacting different museums for this purpose and play with the idea of members reproducing the items for the musuem for display purposes too?