Ashley was kind enough to point out the pictures of an extant dress with a skirt pleated to the outside of the bodice that Anea has on her site. I sent Anea an email thanking her for having the pictures up, and she was kind enough to help me even more and tell me about the regional style in Brescia for this type of pointed partlet. She linked me to several other paintings in her files with the same type of dress and partlet. I am very, very grateful for her time and expertise. Since Italian is not my area of research, I haven't put the time and effort into really investigating sources and knowing what is out there. I am so floored by the generosity of people who have been willing to help me as I bumble along with this project.
Speaking of crowdsourcing, my embroidery hero, Kim Salazar (author of The New Carolingian Modelbook and superdooper generous designer and researcher of blackwork patterns) is attempting an interesting project. She is using the frame from a recent design and attempting to have a design constructed by the group. If you're interested in helping out, you design a bit of blackwork to fit into the frame and send it off for inclusion. Check it out. She's also got a new FREE book of over 200 blackwork fillings available for download, not to mention some silly designs (who could resist the Flying Spaghetti Monster, skulls, and octopodes in blackwork?) available in her recent posts. Her research, stitching, and design skills are amazing and I so want to be her when I grow up (assuming that ever happens.)
In parting, there's one more cool thing about crowdsourcing. It let me have a rather interesting conversation with my computer geek husband who's job has involved writing software that works with and supports crowdsourcing for language translation. Not to mention the fact that he got to use the word portmanteau in a sentence.
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