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LINKS TO OTHER WEB SITES
These are a few of the sites that we have found useful or interesting. For
convenience we've divided them up into several broad categories, which in some
cases they may only loosely fit. If you want us to move your link to another
category or change the description, if you'd like to suggest another site, or if
any of these links appear to be no longer functional, please contact us at
peers@peersdance.org.
Descriptions of the links are taken from text at the various sites.
B. Coole Designs -
A crazy woman, a bunch of sewing machines, and a scruffy
dog.
Blanche's Place - Blanche's
Place has been serving historic reenactors and romantics for over a decade!
We strive to provide authentic and quality historic fashions.
Breanna Bayba - Specializing
in garment construction and design, textile design and manipulation, drawing
and paperwork, and fashion history.
The Costumer's Manifesto
- A Wiki for all to edit and contribute under a Creative
Commons Licence!
Couture Costume & Corsetry
- Custom Clothing, Costumes and Corsets. Patterns and Detailed Construction.
Theatrical and Historical Design. Reproductions, Tailoring, Rentals and
more.
La Couturiere Parisienne
- My intention is to cater to whoever has an interest in and needs
information about historical costume
Dark Garden
- Custom corsetry to suit a range of aesthetics, fit needs, & budgets.
Fashion-era -
Contains 890 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume
History, Clothing, Fashions and Social History
Jurnecka Creations -
Original, custom-made corsets, evening wear, and bridal attire, in addition
to historical and fantasy costumes for both men and women
Lavolta Press - Publishes
high-quality books on historic costuming and vintage clothing.
The Magic Wardrobe -
Custom costumes, mascots and props: period, sci-fi and fantasy, including
movie, TV, comics, videogame, anime, cosplay, manga, reenactment and
character costumes.
Magnoli Clothiers - We
specialize in bespoke tailor-made suits, leather jackets and footwear in
both contemporary and vintage styles.
Sense and Sensibility Patterns
- We provide a full range of historical fashion patterns for ladies of all
ages, covering Georgian, Regency, Romantic, Edwardian, Titanic/Teens, 1940s
and 1950s styles
Stella Dottir - Custom Made
Clothing for Women and Men
Vintage Victorian -
Historical reproduction clothing, accessories, period fashion reference
books, as well as doing restoration work on period outfits.
Academy of Danse Libre -
Organization based in the San Francisco Bay Area, dedicated to the lively
exhibition of vintage social dances
An American
Ballroom Companion -
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals, ca.
1490-1920
Presents a collection of over two hundred social dance manuals at the
Library of Congress
American Dance Legacy Initiative -
Produces innovative materials and programs designed to engage artists,
educators, and the general public with participatory viewing and dancing
experiences
Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community
Center - Presents concerts, classes, and workshops of participatory
dance and music rooted in traditional cultures from around the world
Bay Area Country Dance Society -
Promotes, preserves, and teaches traditional English and American music and
dance in the San Francisco Bay area.
The Commonwealth Vintage
Dancers - Reconstruct, teach and perform American ballroom dance of the
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Country Dance & Song Society - A
community of recreational dancers, singers and musicians, teachers, callers
and dance historians who enjoy dancing, playing and singing traditional
dance, music and song with roots in English and North American culture.
Dancetime Publications
- Offers the largest collection of DVDs that capture the research,
preservation, and performance of dance history that spans over 500 years.
DanceUS.org - An innovative
portal for dance professionals, learners and enthusiasts. We feature unique
content and editorials on our site, helping the reader submerge in the time
period and genuinely appreciate the soul of the dance.
Del's Dance Book - A
how-to guide for a typical SCA dance class, or other renaissance dance class
interested in learning the basic repertoire of the period.
Earthly Delights - A
banner under which - through classes, workshops, events, commissions,
performances and publications - an enormous range of related passions are
exercised.
East Bay Waltz - A casual
social dance held each month on the second Saturday, featuring mostly waltz
and cross-step waltz, with polka, swing, schottische, and Latin dances
thrown in to mix things up.
The Edwardian Ball - An
elegant and whimsical celebration of art, music, theatre, fashion,
technology, circus, and the beloved creations of the late, great author
Edward Gorey.
FFL Morris - Based out of
Menlo Park and Palo Alto, California, started in 1998 presenting dances in
the style of English Border Morris
Friday Night Waltz - A
high energy dance that features mainly Waltzes in the dances and classes,
along with other dances like Polka, One Step, Swing, Salsa, Cha Cha, Lindy,
and Tango
San Francisco Waltzing
Society - A social club originated in the early 1950ʻs by a group of
Viennese Waltz enthusiasts replicating the ongoing tradition of the elegant
Viennese Waltz Balls of Vienna.
Shreelata Suresh - An
active performer in the dance circuit, Shreelata is also a contemporary
teacher of Bharatha Natyam in the pure classical style.
Social Daunce Irregulars -
Dedicated to keeping the tradition of 19th Century ballroom dancing alive in
our otherwise gray and pedestrian world.
Stanford Viennese Ball
- An exciting Stanford tradition with social dancing, live music,
performances, and live contests.
Swinging with Simone -
Simone uniquely combines athletic training, music education and a natural
gift for musical movement to create a studio "where artistry meets fun"
Abebooks.com - Search thousands
of booksellers selling millions of new & used books
Absolute Shakespeare -The
essential resource for William Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, poems, quotes,
biography and the legendary Globe Theatre.
Acanthus Books - Cookbook
and food history titles from antiquity to the early 20th century, as well as
historical household management, gardening, landscape design, architecture,
and interior decoration titles.
Bodleian Library - The combined
collections of the Bodleian Libraries number more than 11 million printed
items
The Camelot
Project - Designed to make available a database of Arthurian texts,
images, bibliographies, and basic information.
City Lights Theater Company - Creates
provocative live productions that engage, inspire, and challenge audiences
and artists alike through innovative concepts, intimate staging, and
uncompromising storytelling.
Little Blue
Moon Theatre - Specializes in Victorian parlor theatre (also called toy
theatre or paper theatre), shadow theatre, object theatre, and lots of funny
and fun vignettes, with themes of love, sex, adventure and romance.
On-line Books - A
website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the
Internet.
Oxbow Book - Your one-stop shop
for everything on Archaeology, Prehistory, the Classical World, the Middle
Ages, Egyptology, Near Eastern studies, and related Environmental and
Heritage topics.
Records of Early English Drama -
An international scholarly project that is establishing for the first time
the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his
contemporaries grew.
David Rumsey Map Collection -
Focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America,
as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania.
FBI Records - The Vault is our new
electronic reading room, containing 6,700 documents and other media that
have been scanned from paper into digital copies
The Internet Sacred Text
Archive - The largest freely available archive of online books about
religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet
The National Gallery
- Primarily for image professionals, allowing access to and rights
clearances for images in the National Gallery's world-famous collection.
Victorian Alliance of San
Francisco - A not-for-profit organization committed to the preservation
and restoration of Victorian and other historic structures, particularly
within the city of San Francisco.
Virtual Jamestown -
Explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia
experiment."
Web Gallery of Art - A
virtual museum and searchable database of European fine arts from 11th to
19th centuries.
Art Deco Society of California
- Our goals are to increase public awareness of the Art Deco era through
preservation and promotion of its art, architecture, music, design, and
other forms of popular culture.
Boke of Gode
Cookery - A compilation of medieval recipes from authentic sources
adapted for the 21st century kitchen
Colonial Williamsburg -Encouraging
national and international audiences to learn from the past through the
preservation, restoration, and presentation of 18th-century Williamsburg
Dickens Christmas Fair - A
one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London - an elaborate party
with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with patrons
The Old World Carolers
- Traditional European holiday music from medieval times through the
nineteenth century.
The Oregon Regency
Society - The Oregon Regency Society’s primary aim is to unite the many Regency-themed groups and individuals in Oregon (and Southern Washington).
Red Barn Productions -
A full-service event production company with decades of experience in the
design & production of large and small scale events.
Society for Creative Anachronism - An
international organization dedicated to researching and re-creating the arts
and skills of pre-17th-century Europe.
The Tudor Group - An
historical interpretation society which concentrates on the Tudor period of
British history.
Victorian Events Calendar
- A listing of events, lectures, entertainments and exhibits of special
interest to lovers of the 19th century
Victoriana Magazine -
Showcases Victorian style home decor
and furniture, Victorian clothing and accessories, Victorian weddings and
Christmas.
Avalon Rising - A blend
of psychedelic original rock, Celtic, and Medieval music.
The Baguette Quartette -
Plays music that was heard in Paris between 1920 and 1940 on street corners,
in cafes, and in popular dance halls.
Band Music
from the Civil War Era - Makes available examples of a brilliant style
of brass band music that flourished in the 1850s in the United States and
remained popular through the nineteenth century.
Historic
American Sheet Music - The David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript
Library at Duke University holds a significant collection of 19th and early
20th century American sheet music.
Ian Whitcomb -
America's Foremost Tin-Pan Alley Man, Ukulele Virtuoso, and Grammy
Award-Winning Recording Artist
89 One KCEA-FM. - The Bay Area's ONLY
Big Band/Swing station
The Kitchen Musician
-Hammered Dulcimer, Living History, Scottish Fiddle &Traditional Music
Lamplighters Music Theatre - A
San Francisco based non-profit theatre company founded in 1952 to produce
the comic operas of Gilbert & Sullivan and other works of comparable wit,
literacy and musical merit.
Musicnotes.com - Sheet Music
and Guitar Tab Downloads for Nearly 250,000 Arrangements.
Oak Ash and Thorn - An a
capella singing group who draw their repertoire primarily from English
Traditional music.
The Old-Time Herald
- Celebrates the love of old-time music -- grassroots or home-grown music
and dance
The Old World Carolers
- Traditional European holiday music from medieval times through the
nineteenth century.
Parlor Songs Academy -
Dedicated to the preservation of popular American music and musical culture
Mark Russo and the Classy Cats
- Full Big Band or CLASSICAL TRIOS for wedding ceremonies and jazz TRIOS for
your special events are available.
San Francisco Folk Music Club - Its
purpose is the enjoyment, dissemination and preservation in individual,
family and community life of that acoustic music roughly defined as folk.
San Francisco Free Folk Festival
- Two full days of music and dance workshops, concerts, dance parties,
crafts, vendors, formal and informal music-making
Couture Costume - Custom
Clothing, Costumes and Corsets. Patterns and Detailed Construction.
Theatrical and Historical Design. Reproductions, Tailoring, Rentals and
more.
Design Toscano - Specialty
home and garden decor, reproduction furniture, wall decor, indoor statues,
garden statues, and exotic, one-of-a-kind home accents and gifts.
Fashionable Hats - From
the rugged Stetson cowboy hats to the fun and floppy sun hats, we have
everything that you might need to find that fashionable and functional
accessory.
The Filaments Project
& Knotworking - Collects used guitar strings from guitar players; some
whose names you know, some whose names you don't. We make bracelets and
other jewelry out of them and donate all profits from the sale to charity.
Fugawee Historic Footwear -
Carefully researched shoes and boots from French and Indian War to Civil
War.
G. Gedney Godwin - A complete
line of items useful to the military man; such as muskets, bayonets, leather
goods, uniforms, cocked hats, diverse sorts of brazen sundries, &c.
Gentleman's
Emporium - Authentic clothing, exceptional quality, and good old
fashioned service.
Goodgoth.com - Your gothic
Clothing super store, providing affordable and fun fashions, footwear and
accessories.
Gothic Angel - The
latest in women's Gothic clothing, shoes, boots and jewellery.
Kate's Clothing - Style
for counter culture, Kate's Clothing stocks all the best items from
alternative subcultures. From Goth to Grunge, Punk to Steampunk, Gothalyptic
to Kawaii, Health Goth to Pastel Goth.
Medieval Collectibles
- Medieval Swords, Renaissance Clothing and many other Medieval &
Renaissance items.
Medieval Pavilion
Resources - Includes plans, links and articles on tents, furniture, food, costuming, The Society for Creative Anachronism, and other period interests.
A
leisurely weekend of literary-inspired diversions has something for every
Jane Austen devotee. 
