NESTED TABLES Three or four identical lightweight tables sized from small to largest, each one nesting under the next, NIELLO The art of decorating metal plates by incising designs on them and filling incised...
This series of four guides will deal in some detail with decorative combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period, which spans the years from approximately 1910-1940. This first essay discusses the origins...
This is the first of two guides I shall write on Spanish mantilla combs or Peinetas. In this first one I will be concentrating upon the historical aspect of how they developed. I shall also show illustrations...
INTRODUCTION: This is one of the first dolls I purchased in the 1980's to start a doll collection and the third of its type that I have owned. However, it was not until this year (2007) that I learned much...
This fourth in my series of guides on the combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period looks in greater detail at some of the definitive design motifs and decorative effects found. It does not aspire to...
In this guide I describe the development of ornamental combs and similar hair accessories from their beginnings in the late 18th century to the late 1830s. In British history this coincides with the periods...
In the first of my guides on Spanish Mantilla Combs, I traced their development to the end of the 19th century. This discussion traces the popularity of the mantilla type comb in the early 20th century and...
The third of my guides to the combs and hair accessories of the Art Deco period discusses in detail the work of Auguste Bonaz, the master comb maker of the Art Deco period. Indeed, no discussion of Art Deco...
This account deals with combs and hair accessories produced during the early Victorian period of 1840-60, which was considerably influenced by nostalgea for earlier historical periods. The chronology is based...
This guide, the second on the Victorians, deals with the so-called High Victorian period of 1860-70. This account draws upon sources by Norma Hague (1982 1985) which are cited in the reading list at the...