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Photo Database

In better news, I had a REALLY good idea. I realized that it’s actually tremendously easy to save photos from the web to iphoto… and once they’re there they can be tagged. SO… can we say “the contents of mandragore.bnf.fr tagged by garment type?” Or… the ability to make a smart album showing, say, images [...]

PPG, Part 2

On to cutting! ::insert montage here:: Well, dress is cut out… gores are sewn together, as is back seam… time to tweak the fit. Great idea, except for the part where it doesn’t fit at all. Apparently this fabric doesn’t stretch as much as my other pull-over kirtles (which still fit!), thus I can’t actually [...]

A Theory on Hats (perhaps to be shot down).

A Theory on Hats (perhaps to be shot down).

So Amy sent me a picture which spawned thought, which I decided to write down before I forgot about it. I have been known to wear a hood in the men’s chaperone style, which I had seen a few images of, but knew was rare. Still, I figured I had just enough evidence to justify [...]