Of course anyone who knows me knows that I have been forever hooked on the Italian Dandy in one of the frescoes by Domenico di Bartolo in the Sala del Pellegrinaio (hall of the pilgrim), Hospital Santa Maria della Scala, Siena. This isn't a great picture, but it gives the general sense of it.

For more on the hospital, here are a couple of links.

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Since I used the one space on our Clothiers group to point here, I thought I would add another useful place for keeping track of projects....http://www.projectarchive.org/proj_list.php?f_user=56

 
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Sleeve Mock Up Problems
 
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http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/fo/visite?srv=mfc¶mAction=actionGetOeuvre&idFicheOeuvre=3452Read more... )

So - I am finally home and almost caught up on laundry, vacuuming, toilet cleaning...blah, blah, blah None of this of course gets done while I am gone.

I was looking at Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance 1400-1470 (v. 1) (~ page 203) for  some other reason and came upon this fresco again and realized that there might be a clue here as to the ( Read more... )

As some of you know I am on a quest to find all the film and stage productions which Jean Hunnisett did.  Amazingly enough there is a dearth of readily available information "out there" available to the amateur costumer.   My initial quest was to track down a film for which she supposedly created the costumes in the Arnolfini wedding portrait.... ( Read more... )

At first I thought I had a huge revelation about the dagges and how they were cut.  (I even had notions that the ones on the front were attached differently than those showing on the sides.  Now I believe I am beginning to understand Hunnisett's method.   I am thinking that we are confused by her drawings...or she may be a little off ( Read more... )

Sigh, I have to go back to NY to be with my sister for some unexpected surgery, so my actual construction of  the Arnolfini gown will be delayed until I get back in May some time.

But, in the mean time I am posting an Excel Spreadsheet with some of my calculations.  I am not sure how much use it will be to anyone.  I haven't been able to write down ( Read more... )

Live Journal is acting squirly tonight so I won't be posting much. I went back to take original measurements based on the picture again. I have moved her hand around (and cut off her thumb ( Read more... )