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Feb. 1st, 2010 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
labricoleuseThere's an excellent article in the current issue of Piecework magazine (Jan/Feb 2010) by Elizabeth Cobbe entitled, "Knitting for the Stage," on everything from knitted cord "chainmail" to quick-rigging knitwear closures, including a brief mention of my crocheted 1970s vest for last season's Well! It even includes a pattern for a knitted "chainmail" cowl. The whole issue is of interest, really, as their 4th Historical Knitting issue, with articles on everything from Victorian knitted lace pattern explications to recreations of period garments like 19th century stockings and Medieval mittens. I got my copy from the local Barnes & Noble.
In terms of online reading material, there's a great photoessay post behind-the-scenes at the Broadway costume atelier Barbara Matera Ltd., by Jodi Kendall. Kendall is quite fond of variable font sizes and colors in her blogging and is writing from a layman's perspective (so she gets some details wrong[1]), but the images are excellent to check out! Reminds me of that episode of Threadbanger featuring Parsons Meares...
[1] Such as the claim that Matera's makes all of each of the cited musicals. Just off the top of my head, i know that Parsons-Meares has some Lion King contracts (Rafiki's costme and Scar's tail rig, for example) and Wicked contracts (flying monkeys), and Tricorne does a lot of Emerald City for Wicked, and that John Kristiansen's Inc. has a chunk of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey contracts (elephant riders, stiltwalkers IIRC). But, i wouldn't expect the average person to really grok how shows that size get split up among the shops, so i mean no criticism of Ms. Kendall in pointing this out.
In terms of online reading material, there's a great photoessay post behind-the-scenes at the Broadway costume atelier Barbara Matera Ltd., by Jodi Kendall. Kendall is quite fond of variable font sizes and colors in her blogging and is writing from a layman's perspective (so she gets some details wrong[1]), but the images are excellent to check out! Reminds me of that episode of Threadbanger featuring Parsons Meares...
[1] Such as the claim that Matera's makes all of each of the cited musicals. Just off the top of my head, i know that Parsons-Meares has some Lion King contracts (Rafiki's costme and Scar's tail rig, for example) and Wicked contracts (flying monkeys), and Tricorne does a lot of Emerald City for Wicked, and that John Kristiansen's Inc. has a chunk of the Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey contracts (elephant riders, stiltwalkers IIRC). But, i wouldn't expect the average person to really grok how shows that size get split up among the shops, so i mean no criticism of Ms. Kendall in pointing this out.
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Date: 2010-02-02 11:53 pm (UTC)Re: reply
Date: 2010-02-03 12:36 pm (UTC)(I used to work at Parsons-Meares, and have friends and colleagues who work in the other NYC shops--if you watch that Threadbanger video i linked to, you'll see a couple of their Lion King contracts like the grass dancers, the leggings for the flying monkeys and the interior bodysuit for the Tin Man from Wicked, and a bunch of other similarly cool stuff!
It was particularly exciting to see the Beauty and the Beast images in your pictures--the first time i visited Matera's with a grad-school tour group nearly 20 years ago, they were building the first Beauty and the Beast costumes!
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Date: 2010-02-04 06:37 pm (UTC)