[Steppes] SCA Costume Collegium, open to all

[Ches]

Event notice from Lady Muriel de Chimay <muriel_vh at hotmail.com>:

Greetings to you, good gentles,

This announcement is being forwarded to several lists - so please accept
my sincere apologies if you receive this more than once.

There will be a Costume Collegium on Saturday, June 15 at the Church of
the Savior Episcopal Church, 155 Morris Avenue, Denville, NJ 07834.  This
is being held with the kind permission of the Barony of Settmour Swamp.
There will be approx. 20 classes dealing with various aspects of
costuming, including (but not limited to) clothing and accessories from
specific time periods, textile classes, hand-sewing techniques and a
round-table discussion.

Robin Netherton* is scheduled to be our keynote speaker, and she will also
be giving four hours of classes, with topics of the Gothic fitted dress,
the Greenland gored gown, the sideless surcote, and the V-necked
(Burgundian) gown.

There will be an A&S Display.  Please bring items (finished or
works-in-progress) to be displayed.  Documentation is encouraged.
Gentles are encouraged to bring tokens to bestow on those items/projects
that inspire them.

The site will open at 9 am and close to all at 8 pm.

Here is the basic website - the class schedule will be updated, so please
check back.  More information is also available on the East Kingdom
website, under Events.

http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/2269/

We may still have room for volunteers to teach a class or two on clothing,
accessories, textiles, knitting, tablet weaving or any other such
costuming topics.  Please contact me (at muriel_vh at hotmail.com) if you are
interested.

We are looking forward to seeing you on Saturday, June 15.

In Service,
Lady Muriel de Chimay
muriel_vh at hotmail.com

*Robin Netherton is an independent scholar specializing in costume of
the Middle Ages. Since 1982, she has given lectures and workshops for
academic audiences, historical societies, reenactment groups, and
writers' organizations both here and abroad, on practical aspects of
period costume as well as on costume as an approach to social history,
art history, and literature. Her research focuses on the development
of the cut of European clothing in the 12th through 15th centuries, as
well as on the depiction and interpretation of clothing by artists and
historians, both medieval and modern.

Since 1987, she has helped organize sessions on dress and textiles at
the International Congress on Medieval Studies, an interdisciplinary
academic conference sponsored every May by the Medieval Institute in
Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Her recent article on a proposed cutting method for a 12th century
Norman gown, published in the _Costume Research Journal_, was
reprinted in the Winter 2002 _Tournaments Illuminated_.

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