Wednesday, February 3, 2010

FAVORITE ONLINE SUPPLIERS

DESIGN CROQUIS & MEASUREMENT CARDS
Tauton - croquis
Designing Arts Studio - measurement cards
Art Design Fashion - fashion templates

HATS
Lynn McMasters - patterns & online instructions
Judith M - patterns & supplies
Hats by Leko - unfinished hats & supplies
Lacis - supplies & battenburg folding hat & mad hatter buckram
Dirty Billy's Hats - lady's wool riding, low crown straw, straw tricorn
Hat Book - supplies
Pattern Studio - patterns & frames
SilkFlowers.com - silk flowers
Silk Flowers Factory - silk flowers
Save on Crafts - silk flowers
Lubin Flowers - silk flowers - wholesale
USI Floral - silk flowers
Davyne Dial Millinery - handmade silk roses
The Box Shop - hat boxes
Northwest Traders - Native American hat bands
Clearwater Hats - ready to wear
Dad's Hats - ready to wear
Excalibur Leather - leather tricorn & cavalier
Hats in the Belfry - Madhatter top hat
Samuels Hats - finished hats & hat boxes
Goorin - ready to wear
Tias - vintage hats

PATTERNS
Eva Dress - 1800's > 1950's
The Blue Gardenia - 1920's > 1960's
Decades of Style - 1920's > 1950's
Vintage Martini - Victorian >1980's
Rusty Zipper - vintage
SewingPatterns.com - low prices
Ravenrook - expensive! artistic reform & regency
Truly Victorian - 1830 > 1901
Sense & Sensibility - Regency - 1940's
Crazy Crow - Native American & frontier
Northwest Traders - Native American & frontier
SuitAbility - riding
James Country - civil war era
Smoke & Fire - colonial
Rocking Horse Farm - medieval > 1930's
Wingeo - medieval > 1940's
Burnley and Trowbridge - 1700's > 1800's
Kannik's Korner - 1700's > 1800's
Mediaeval Miscellanea - medieval > Elizabethan

FABRICS
Thai Silks - Los Altos store
Exotic Silks - Mountain View store
Renaissance Fabrics
Bennett Silks - moire silk taffeta
Baltazar - bridal & heirloom
Trim Fabrics
Pendleton Woodworks - art nouveau
Deco Dame - art deco, art nouveau, craftsman, wright, animal
Fabrics-Store.com - jacquard linens
Fabric Tales - asian prints
Fabric Mart - Hawaiian
GotFabric.com - batik, asian, Hawaiian
Bella Fabrics - Italian silks, only via store in Los Angeles

MARBLED SILK
Marbled Fabrics - by the yard $70
Silk by Lucia - retail
HGTV - instructions

LACE, TRIM & RIBBON
Sew-Biz Fabrics - well priced metalic trim & venice lace
Deco Dame - tassels

BUTTONS, CLASPS & FASTENERS
Garden Fairies Trading Company - snowflake & feather buttons
Britex Notions - buttons, lace, & ribbons

CORSET PATTERNS & SUPPLIES
Corset Making Supplies - good prices & speedy delivery
Frederick's of Hollywood - stockings & thigh highs
Stocking Showcase - stockings
Stocking Store - stockings

TOOLS & MACHINES
Elna US - embroidery machine

DYE, PAINTING & TRANSFERS

BEADS, BEADING & JEWELRY SUPPLIES
Lacis - large bead loom, bag patterns & bag frames

ACCESSORIES
Dragonfly Design Studio - parasols & fans
Lace Parasols - parasols, fans, gloves
Long Ago - parasols & petticoats
Lands Far Away Imports, Inc. - fans, castanets, shawls, peinitas, mantillas
Great Lookz - gloves
Fall Creek Suttlery - gloves, parasols, striped stockings, sandelwood fan, petticoats
Ostrich.com - feathers
Tias - vintage handbags & purses
Purse Street - vintage handbags & purses

WIGS & HAIR ACCESSORIES
Ingasbo - circlets
Lady MacSnood - beaded snoods, hair sticks
Longlocks - hair stiicks

MASKS
Costume Chik - leather, venetian, blanks
Venetian Masquerade Masks - gorgeous filigree
Masquerade Magic - gorgeous filigree
Mask Italia - gorgeous filigree, pairings
Ca' Macana - venetian, celestial
Venetian Mask Society - filigree, venetian, feather
Quirao - large selection
Beadmask - leather, beads, fairy
Halloween.it - butterfly
Tom Banwell - leather, steampunk
Chantal Mallet - custom wire
3Wishes - filigree
Venetian Masks Shop - filigree, blanks
Rain Walker Masks - leather, fairy
Angel Mask - leather, fairy, bast
Lyonshel - foam, felines
Fantasy Guild - leather, wolf, water,fairies, astro
N.O. Madness Masks - large feather
Ravenwood Masks - leather
Gypsy Renaissance - beaded & pairings
Dream of Italy - blanks & metal filigree
Masks.com.au - blanks

LOTS'O'LINKS

TROPICAL MOTIF

MADAM BUTTERFLY

CALYPSO, THE MERMAID

BELLY DANCE
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Back again!

Well... while I'm stuck recovering from a serious back and hip injury, mostly recumbent, most of the time, with laptop balanced on my belly to keep me connected to the outside world, I think of cool things to do with this blog. Here are a few:

* Post a list of inspiring blogs.

* Post a list of links to favorite websites

* Post a list of all the costume projects I've completed.

* When I'm up and around again, take and upload photos, including notes about patterns and fabrics used, as well as techniques employed & lessons I've learned (& so I don't repeat mistakes again ;-)

*Post a list of the projects I plan to work on in the future, including due dates, notes about where to get resources, how to questions I have , and discoveries I'm making while working on each project.

* Take or scan and upload images that are design inspirations.

* Take and upload images from costume events I attend.


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