[Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)

[Chiara Francesca]

I went ahead and created a yahoo group for those of us that want to travel 
to Florence in 2008 for this conference. This gives us about 14 months of 
planning and saving. :)

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Traveling4Costumers

Chiara

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "HL Chiara Francesca" <vscribe at ansteorra.org>
To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)


> Yep .... so a budget line item now!! :D
>
> If enough folks want to go we may be able to get a group rate on flights,
> etc.
>
> Everyone please go fill out the survey so that they can solidify the plans
> for the conference to really happen. Once they do that then we can plan a
> group outing to Florence. :)
>
> Chiara
> looking for her passport ... it was here somewhere ...
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Traci Baker" <traci at crimsonvision.net>
> To: <Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:37 AM
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)
>
>
>> Link: http://www.costume-textiles.com/index.htm
>>
>> Text for link-a-phobics:
>> Janet Arnold's pioneering research into the cut and construction of
>> clothes
>> from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries provide invaluable
>> information on clothing from the past.  Her series of publications
>> entitled Patterns
>> of Fashion continues to make a profound impact in many fields, from the
>> re-creation of historic dance and other forms of re-enactment to designs
>> for
>> stage, film and television.  For art historians and conservators too, her
>> insights have proved an indispensable aid to historical research.
>>
>> For more than 10 years preceding her untimely death in 1998, Janet Arnold
>> collaborated with Palazzo Pitti's Galleria del Costume conservation
>> department in Florence.  Here she actively participated on the lengthy 
>> and
>> difficult project of documenting and conserving the sixteenth century
>> Medici
>> burial clothes (of Cosimo I, Eleonora di Toledo and one of their sons) on
>> which she contributed to several publications.  Prior to this, she made
>> several trips to Italy, and in particular to Florence, while researching
>> for
>> her books on Patterns of Fashion.
>>
>> On the 10th anniversary of the passing away of this illustrious British
>> costume historian, Florence would like to pay homage to her work done
>> there.  In the plans are four days of study, lectures, on-sight tours and
>> visits to significant sites specifically tailored to the participants'
>> interests and essential to Janet's Arnold's work and to that of her
>> followers. A variety of presentations by designers, historians and
>> conservators will acknowledge the importance of Janet Arnold's work,
>> especially thorough her understanding of costume cut and construction,
>> placing it in the wider context of differing approaches through many 
>> media
>> to a contemporary audience.
>>
>> The event will be on an international scale and involve the collaboration
>> of
>> the most prestigious institutions and researchers in the fields of 
>> costume
>> history, conservation, costume replication and/or as many collateral
>> fields
>> as time and interest permit.
>>
>> The organizers are appealing not only to textile and dress conservators
>> and
>> curators, art and costume historians, costume designers for stage, film
>> and
>> televisions but also students in these disciplines and interested members
>> of
>> the general public to attend this important and timely event.
>>
>> *Starts plotting how to get to Florence*
>>
>> XxX,
>> Elizabeta
>>
>> *************************
>> Lady Elizabeta di Valore della Rosa
>> Steppes Equestrian Marshall
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