User Administrator http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/user_administrator Freebase Atom Feed Generator http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/gmackenz gmackenz 2008-09-07T03:23:46Z skud http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/skud <p>Nice! I've got a box full of my mum's old stuff from the 50s; she studied at Emily MacPherson College here in Melbourne doing a 2 year (?) diploma of dressmaking and became a professional dressmaker. The books include lots of fashion design sketches, pattern-making theory stuff, and samples of different stitches, techniques, and so on. Must get around to scanning/photographing it all and putting it online sometime.</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c8ef1a Nice! I've got a box full of my mum's old stuff from the 50s; she studied at Emily MacPherson... gmackenz: You, sir, are my new best friend! 2007-09-16T20:57:25.0000Z gmackenz http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/gmackenz <p>So then she'd enjoy (if she hasn't already visited) my wife's <A HREF="http://www.vintagesewing.info">Vintage Sewing</A> site of old public domain sewing/patterning/clothing/household books available to the masses.</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c8da3b So then she'd enjoy (if she hasn't already visited) my wife's Vintage Sewing site of old public... gmackenz: You, sir, are my new best friend! 2007-09-15T05:57:02.0007Z skud http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/skud <p>I'm luring in a friend of mine who runs a vintage clothing store in Australia and is working on a book on vintage clothing. She wants to categorise styles and details of clothing so that eg. you can know that dropped waistlines were popular in such-and-such a period and high waistlines in these other periods, or whatever.</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c8d969 I'm luring in a friend of mine who runs a vintage clothing store in Australia and is working on a... gmackenz: You, sir, are my new best friend! 2007-09-15T02:38:03.0000Z gmackenz http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/gmackenz <p>An invisible friend from the San Francisco Bay Area who has a secret pash for Regency romance novels. The textiles work is a 'lure' for my wife to investigate/use Freebase. She did a lot of the type associations to topics already.</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c82717 An invisible friend from the San Francisco Bay Area who has a secret pash for Regency romance... gmackenz: You, sir, are my new best friend! 2007-09-13T18:42:58.0000Z skud http://www.freebase.com:80/view/user/skud <p>Textile data modelling *and* you've been messing with Georgette Heyer novels! *hearts*</p> http://www.freebase.com:80/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000005c8224d Textile data modelling *and* you've been messing with Georgette Heyer novels! *hearts* gmackenz: You, sir, are my new best friend! 2007-09-13T13:56:08.0005Z