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		<title>How do you Reproduce the Alcega Farthingale Pattern?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m totally obsessed with the Alcega farthingale. I mean, I&#8217;m always a little obsessed with it, because it&#8217;s sort of the great rock candy mountain for costumers, right? But I&#8217;ve been working on an eBook about drafting gored skirts for period costumes, and I thought I&#8217;d throw in a little bit of a redraft for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheat Sheet for Alcega Farthingale Hoop Sizes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this a little while back.  It&#8217;s simply a chart of hoop sizes to mimic the  shape and angle of the Alcega farthingale.  The chart is indexed by waist size and waist to ground measurement.  The full story of all the maths used to create this chart is available here.This file used to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recreating the Alcega Farthingale for Modern Bodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 05:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surviving pattern published in Juan de Alcega&#8217;s &#8216;Libro de Geometria, Practica y Traca&#8217;(1589) represents almost everything we know about the farthingale. Most articles on recreating the Alcega farthingale focus on faithfully reproducing the pattern based on fabric widths. Honestly, though, calling this a &#8220;pattern&#8221; is a bit of an overstatement: the book was more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everything I Know About&#8230;. 16th Century Support Skirts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt from a research paper I did a while back. The paper itself is 40 pages and covers 4 centuries of support skirts and corsetry. I figure it&#8217;s more digestible in smaller chunks. Please note: my regularly scheduled writing style has been suspended in favor of something more palatable to the hardcore [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curved Front Corset</title>
		<link>http://www.sempstress.org/2009/curved-front-corset/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>missa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed a while back that most of the bodices in Alcega's 
  book and several other period tailor's books show a slight backwards S curve 
  at the front edge. That seemed like it would accommodate the bust and belly 
  a little, and I was feeling ...]]></description>
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