Projects and Stuff This user would rather write new B-class articles than make existing B-class articles into Featured Articles. This user is a member of the Textile Arts WikiProject. This user is a member of the Fashion WikiProject This user is a member of the Middle Ages WikiProject. This user is a member of the Heraldry and vexillology WikiProject. This user is a member of WikiProject King Arthur. This user is a member of WikiProject Middle-earth. This user is a member of WikiProject Science Fiction. This user is a member of WikiProject California. This user is a member of WikiProject Historic Sites. This user is a member of WikiProject England This user is a participant in WikiProject Typography. This editor is a Veteran Editor II, and is entitled to display this Bronze Editor Star. This user has uploaded 2 featured pictures on Wikipedia. This user helped promote the article William Morris to good article status. This user helped promote the article Edward Burne-Jones to good article status. This user has been a major contributor to 61 articles featured in the Did you know... section on the Main Page. 13,000+ This user has made over 13,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

I am a woman of a certain age, as they said in a more gracious time, and I live in California.

I would like to see Wikipedia's articles on costume approach the depth and usefulness of its articles on botany.

I am dubious about the practice of displaying stacks of user tags. (I am also dubious about bumperstickers, for similar reasons.)

I have contributed to these articles.

Hobbits delight in such things, if they are accurate: they like to have books filled with things that they already know, set out fair and square with no contradictions.

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. Prologue, "Concerning Hobbits"

[edit] Housekeeping

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[edit] New articles

(selected) John Henry Dearle  · Zibellino  · Frances Radclyffe, Countess of Sussex  · Aiguillette (ornament)  · Cord (sewing)  · Valois Tapestries  · Tuck (sewing)  · Rancho Los Encinos  · Howard Greer  · Artists of the Tudor court  · Armada Portrait  · Accession Day tilt  · William Segar  · Quentin Metsys the Younger  · Cornelis Ketel  · Textile arts (survey for project)  · Slip (needlework)  · Henry Lyte (botanist)  · Steven van der Meulen  · Troco  · Anna Maria Garthwaite  · Textile design (stub)  · Bunting (textile) (stub)  · Merton Abbey Mills  · Edward Hoby  · James Stewart, Earl of Arran (stub)  · Frederick Hollyer  · Portraiture of Elizabeth I  · John Luttrell (soldier)  · William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux of Harrowden  · Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden  · Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry  · New Gallery (London)  · Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society  · Star of Bethlehem (painting)  · John Prideaux Lightfoot‎  · Adoration of the Magi (tapestry)  · Robert Brandon  · Richard Martin (Lord Mayor of London)  · Richard Martin (Recorder of London)  · English embroidery  · George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny  · Walter Scott of Branxholme and Buccleuch  · Edward Rogers (comptroller)  · Hieronimo Custodis  · Giles Brydges, 3rd Baron Chandos  · William Rich Hutton  · William Rich  · Obadiah Rich  · James D. Hutton  · Nathaniel Henry Hutton  · History of the San Fernando Valley to 1915  · Rio de Los Angeles State Park  · San Pasqual Battlefield State Historic Park  · Placerita Canyon State Park  · Interlace (visual arts)  · Ralph Brooke  · William Flower (officer of arms)  · Robert Glover (officer of arms)  · Robert Cooke (officer of arms)  · George Manners (editor) (from DNB)  · Steven van Herwijck  · Thomas Stanley (Royal Mint)  · John Cochran (artist) (stub)  · La Belle Assemblée  · David Vann (Cherokee leader)

[edit] Major work on

William Larkin  · Bess of Hardwick  · William Morris  · Morris & Co.  · May Morris  · Edward Burne-Jones  · Hans Eworth  · Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger  · Embroidery  · Penelope Rich, Lady Rich  · North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California  · Urban fantasy · Lily Yeats  · Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland‎  · George Manners, 7th Earl of Rutland‎

[edit] Modest additions

Champagne fairs  · Rowland Lockey  · Battle of Pinkie Cleugh (footnotes)  · Louis II de Bourbon-Vendôme  · Esmé Stewart, 2nd Duke of Richmond  · Charles Stewart, 3rd Duke of Richmond  · Charles Bird King‎ (adding images)  · Charles Voysey (architect)

[edit] Work in progress

[edit] Work to be done on

Fashion plate  · Sub-Roman Britain Taskforce  · Bliaut  · Edward Fitzgerald Beale  · Fort Tejon

[edit] The neverending story

1100-1200 in fashion  · 1200-1300 in fashion  · 1300-1400 in fashion  · 1400-1500 in fashion  · 1500-1550 in fashion  · 1550-1600 in fashion  · 1600-1650 in fashion  · 1650-1700 in fashion  · 1700-1750 in fashion  · 1750-1795 in fashion  · 1795-1820 in fashion  · 1820s in fashion  · 1830s in fashion  · 1840s in fashion  · 1850s in fashion  · 1860s in fashion  · 1870s in fashion  · 1880s in fashion  · 1890s in fashion  · 1900s in fashion  · 1910s in fashion  · 1920s in fashion  · 1930-1945 in fashion