Re: Evangeline

I don't think there was photography back in Evangelines day.???? ruby

Laury have you thought of making your own xst designs ? You can start with small details, Study some separate classical xst forms ,, animals flowers letters,,,, than draw your own little picture

And try to transfom that into xst ,,, you might be surprised by the result ,,, mirjam

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Stitcher at snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.ca wrote on 1/28/06 9:54 PM:

Not a photo of Evangeline. A photo of someone MLI knows. I agree that it doesn't look right. Something's off-kilter.

Karen E.

Interesting site about Evangeline:

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I thought that too but I think the OP meant MLI took the idea from a photo of a supposed Evangeline - hoped she asked about copyright. However, there could never be a photograph of a fictictious person.

Evangeline was fictictious, romanticized by Longfellow. My argument was that given I have seen where she supposedly lived and was banished from, as have you, the likelihood of flowing gowns etc. is stupid. It is true that the Acadian women probably did work on the dikes in long dresses but I am sure they would have been hitched up somehow for practicality and that would exclude fullness. This all happened in

1755 and a few years before that, and supplies of fabric were very few and far between.

Ruby - remember we should ask Marie-France or Ginette on Tuesday what Acadian women of that period wore.

Great site, Jan. I really enjoyed wandering around it; it brought back many memories of our super holiday two years ago in the Maritimes. This coincided with the 400th Anniversary of the Arcadians, and many events were keyed on that part of Canadian history.

Gillian

I thought way back someone said it was taken from a photo of one of Nora's friends. Where I get that from, I have no idea. I could totally be making it up from another memory from something else.

Is there a link for it? I`m sure we all have our own ideas about what Evangeline should look like.

Pat P

Indeed, but even if she need not be historically accurate, since she is standing for a vision related to the hurricane, I am sure most of us think she should at least look anatomically plausible. Judge for yourself.

Oh, LOLOLOL! It looks like another, totally different head, stuck onto what is basically one of her other figures! Apart from rgart, surely in that time they were wearing little "Quaker" type bonnets and wouldn`t have had all that hair flowing around - let alone the skirt!

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I once read someone referring to those incredibly rich incredibly thin older women with the size 2 bodies and the bouffant-ish hair as "lollipop ladies" (I know that has a different meaning in English English). That big head and hair on the tiny body put me in mind of that. Dawne

Or possibly the old-time cutouts they used to have a various beach resorts, where you put your head through atop a drawn body-builder or bathing suited woman? The head doesn't match the size of the body(unless you're looking through a doorway peep-hole, perhaps).

-- Carey in MA (going back to my corner now....)

That required a spew warning Dawne!

Cheryl

No you're not making it up Vic. When the piece was introduced, Marilyn did say that the face was based on the photograph of friend's daughter's face. She wanted a real face for the piece.

Anita in frigid, snowy Alaska

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Sheesh...if that was my face, I'd wear a paper sack on my head for a few years for the sheer embarassment of being associated with such an ugly piece. No way I'd want to be recognized.

I'd rather be on the back of the milk cartons... Becky A.

Hey, this Quaker has never once worn a bonnet....well....maybe as a baby I did, but I had no choice in the matter at the time! ROFL

It's a sad little design, nothing like MLI promised in her original posts in her group. I know that her designs are her livelihood, that unlike many designers she doesn't have a "day job" and must live in the income from her designs. That's a lot of pressure to publish or perish.

It's just a shame that she seems unable to reach her earlier great heights in her designs any longer.

Caryn