New York, New York!
Apr. 19th, 2010 01:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloOh my! One day is just not enough to get done with everything I wanted to get done in NYC. Did you know that Mood closes at 4 on Saturdays?!? So I didn't get to go there. I did go into MJ Trims and found some floral trim that should work for the Madame Pompadour gown I'd like to do sometimes soon. I have about 10 yards of teal silk taffeta that should work for that. I also got a love peacock blue pre-pleated velvet trim just because I loved the color and a iridescent red/green pre-pleated trim that I think will work with the green silk I already have. Again, 18th c and probably some sort of Christmas dress.
I honestly spent most of the day at the Met and the pictures prove that. They didn't have much out dress-wise but they did have some very interesting 16th c Italian velvets, one piece of blackwork, and a pair of Elizabeth gloves out so I was rather happy. :-) The Met has a pretty liberal policy on picture taking (no flash and no pictures of the special exhibits) so I really had fun...
Although the Bronzino exhibit was nice, I really was far more impressed with the Le Belles Heures exhibit. The entire prayer book was on display, completely dismantled so you could see every single page. You really don't get how ridiculously small some of the work done on that manuscript is until you take a magnifying glass to it. The computer screen and books just don't capture the details well at all. I'm really sorry I couldn't take pictures of it but I am so glad I got to see it.
After wandering around the medieval wing of the Met for oh...four or so hours, I went over to the Natural History Museum which is almost directly on the other side of Central Park from the Met. BTW, If you decide to go to NYC, wear normal shoes. I knew I shouldn't have warn my mules but I didn't have my hiking boots with me. Thank God Herald square has a Payless.
Anyway, I saw the Silk Road exhibit there which was pretty interesting. They had some hands on stuff and you could smell the various oils and look at the various silks. It was sort of done so that you could tell they were thinking about the kids but wanted to keep the adults entertained as well, which is nice.
By 3, I was museumed out and went to the Garment district which...is just dead on Saturdays. Really, most of the places are closed. The fabric shop that wasn't and I did go in was ridiculous in price. I mean, $42 for silk taffeta? I'll stick to online, thanks.
I also went to the Morgan Library which was only a couple of blocks from the Garment district. They had the Catherine of Cleves manuscript up and some other really interesting pieces...like a Spanish-English dictionary purportedly owned by Elizabeth I!
I ended up in Macy's, a tiny cafe to get some tea, and then Payless. My feet were trying to kill me by that point and I did get some great new shoes that are much more comfortable. By that time, it was already almost 7 and the train left at 7:55 so I headed back to Penn Station and tried to crash on the train. Unfortunately, the conductor was best buds with the twin brother of the person in front of me...and the conductor did not have an inside voice. Ugh!
Anyway, Pictures!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubileel/sets/72157623890187932/
Those are of all the things I saw at the Met. I do have other random pictures up but I thought most people would be interested in those. :-)
I honestly spent most of the day at the Met and the pictures prove that. They didn't have much out dress-wise but they did have some very interesting 16th c Italian velvets, one piece of blackwork, and a pair of Elizabeth gloves out so I was rather happy. :-) The Met has a pretty liberal policy on picture taking (no flash and no pictures of the special exhibits) so I really had fun...
Although the Bronzino exhibit was nice, I really was far more impressed with the Le Belles Heures exhibit. The entire prayer book was on display, completely dismantled so you could see every single page. You really don't get how ridiculously small some of the work done on that manuscript is until you take a magnifying glass to it. The computer screen and books just don't capture the details well at all. I'm really sorry I couldn't take pictures of it but I am so glad I got to see it.
After wandering around the medieval wing of the Met for oh...four or so hours, I went over to the Natural History Museum which is almost directly on the other side of Central Park from the Met. BTW, If you decide to go to NYC, wear normal shoes. I knew I shouldn't have warn my mules but I didn't have my hiking boots with me. Thank God Herald square has a Payless.
Anyway, I saw the Silk Road exhibit there which was pretty interesting. They had some hands on stuff and you could smell the various oils and look at the various silks. It was sort of done so that you could tell they were thinking about the kids but wanted to keep the adults entertained as well, which is nice.
By 3, I was museumed out and went to the Garment district which...is just dead on Saturdays. Really, most of the places are closed. The fabric shop that wasn't and I did go in was ridiculous in price. I mean, $42 for silk taffeta? I'll stick to online, thanks.
I also went to the Morgan Library which was only a couple of blocks from the Garment district. They had the Catherine of Cleves manuscript up and some other really interesting pieces...like a Spanish-English dictionary purportedly owned by Elizabeth I!
I ended up in Macy's, a tiny cafe to get some tea, and then Payless. My feet were trying to kill me by that point and I did get some great new shoes that are much more comfortable. By that time, it was already almost 7 and the train left at 7:55 so I headed back to Penn Station and tried to crash on the train. Unfortunately, the conductor was best buds with the twin brother of the person in front of me...and the conductor did not have an inside voice. Ugh!
Anyway, Pictures!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubileel/sets/72157623890187932/
Those are of all the things I saw at the Met. I do have other random pictures up but I thought most people would be interested in those. :-)
