Back from vacation
The beach was great but I did want to rush back to my fabric and sewing. I even got new fabric this week!
Category: trips
On the plane: lucet cording
Yes I am in Hawaii this week! Yes I took a plane here. Yes I did have handwork with me that didn’t include sharp pointy metal objects that may or may not have intimidated...
Colonial Williamsburg: visitor’s center & historic areas
We left our car at the visitor’s center and took the bus and walked the rest of the day around the historic center before hitting one of the museums. I really wish I had...
Palazzo Vecchio: Elenora di Toledo
*Nov. 9 2008 visit I promised photos of our audience with an enactment actor playing the Duchess Elenora di Toledo back in December so here are a few from that event:
Colonial Williamsburg: brief overview
The day started slowly with the realization that a lot more was closed in Colonial Williamsburg than expected. Not a single tavern was open this winter. Winter programming started Jan. 1st. and a lot...
DC & Williamsburg
Ann and I are flying out tomorrow to go pack up 1930s furniture to ship home to my 1928 home. The style should suit the place. They are from my husband’s grandparents who recently...
Palazzo Vecchio: costume reproductions
Nov. 9- After wandering around and snapping tons of photos of the map room we were escorted into territory not open to the other visitors into a hallway of costume reproductions laid our for...
Costume Colloquium: day five – extant garments upstairs
Some images from upstairs from the Renaissance dresses. Spent some time up there while it was a mob scene down at the Countess’s gown.
Pisa, Italy: Cerratelli Foundation – people pics
We were given permission to play with some of the props:
Pisa, Italy: Cerratelli Foundation – costuming
The pamphlet given to us explains “Cerratelli Foundation opened in 2005 at San Giuliano Terme (Pisa), a product of the will of the Director Floridia Benedettini and preserved a heratige of over 25,000 stage...
Pisa, Italy: Renaissance dress & textile sample
The third dress we were able to observe showing the center front seam: The gowns were handled by the curator to show some specifics of what they found. Do not worry that wasn’t a...
Pisa, Italy: A gown of a duchess – court dress of a Madonna
Some of use went on an optional trip to the Laboratorio Centro Restauro Tessili in the Cittadella of Pisa for a private viewing of the Renaissance dresses from the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale....
Costume Colloquium: reception at Pitti palace courtyard café
Nov. 8 One more batch of “social” pictures. I promise I’ll come back to all the days and events in due time. In the Pitti palace camera’s were not allowed so I got to...
