[MR] St Annes Clothiers Guild workshops, etc

[cmerritt923 at aol.com]

1. Web site. Lady Amie Sparrow is our web-mistress, and has been working on our web page. It's looking great! We will talk about the web site at the next meeting, but if you have suggestions, please send them to her at any time. http://stannes.atlantia.sca.org/. Her e-mail is troenwolf at hotmail.com,
 
2. Venitian workshop, part II 15 nov in Frederick Md. Please see our web site: http://stannes.atlantia.sca.org/ for details. If you're coming up from down south and need a place to crash, let us know. We do have an instructor from G-Street who lives in Fairfax that wants to join us, and needs a ride. Please contact me at cmerritt923 at aol.com if you can give her a ride. 
 
3. Venitian jewelry workshop. Lady Heloise got with some of us at the last meeting and we figured out what we would  like to make.  Date and time to be determined. In the meantime, you can send her graphics of what you're interested in making, and she will help you determine sources for materials. ahamel77 at gmail.com
 
4. Build a Body Double Workshop by Lady Faye de Trees of Bright Hills. We will spend an afternoon cloning ourselves!
You will need an old t-shirt that you don't care to have as a t-shirt anymore that has sleeves and goes down to your hip joint.  You will also need a large roll of paper tape, the old postal kind that has a dry water activated adhesive.  I have found this at art supply stores in the past.  This tape works like paper mache as we wet it and form the layers for the dress form.  This method is ideal because it forms a hardened copy of your shape complete with any variations in symmetry, etc.  You can also pin directly into the paper tape form and some commenters recommend spraying the whole thing with lacquer inside and out for it to last longer. This is the form we will be doing   http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3633/paper-tape-dress-form
We will meet on Sunday, January 24th at 1pm in Bel Air Maryland (see our web site for the specific address). If you're coming up from down south and need a place to crash, let us know.


5. Italian lace. There is a great resource that includes period artwork of lace, and it's free: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/metabook/oilace.html. It's graphic heavy, so it has a lot of files to download, but it's WORTH IT!! If you can't download it, let me know. I've figured out how to make CD's on my computer, and now I'm dangerous.

In Service,
Alessandra da Venizia