User talk:PKM/7 12 Jan 2008 - Mar 2008

A painting
I just stumbled across this 1632 painting and put it in the commons. I love it. Now what shall we do with it? - PKM (talk) 17:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Added to Jerkin (garment) for starters. - PKM (talk) 18:50, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The apparently half-sized violin (or "kit") suggests he may be a dancing-master - perhaps more likely to be able to afford a portrait than most musicians. I've been away but have looked quickly at the Peake; as with Wright you all seem far ahead of me. Johnbod (talk) 01:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

A request
Hey, there! I notice that you've done excellent diagrams, like the one of the yarn twist, and wondered if you might be able to do more. Willow has added a bunch of wonderful photographs illustrating different stitches and things to Knitting, but I think that drawings may be more appropriate and a little less messy. Do you think you'd be up to doing a few to replace some of the photographs? I don't know how long they take you or anything, but I think it would be an excellent contribution to the article.

Thanks, and hope you had a great holiday season! – DroEsperanto(talk 01:20, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Image:Wallis_and_Edward2.jpg listed for deletion
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William Larkin
Calling on the group mind: I've started collecting images by William Larkin in the Commons (link right) preparatory to expanding the stub article. I am stumped by the image left. The | source dubiously describes this image as "said to be Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex" (January 11, 1591 – 14 September 1646), which does not coincide with the date and age (1617 aged 36) of the sitter in the inscription. The attribution to Larkin seems questionable to me as the form of the inscription does not match other works by Larkin. Does anyone know this painting? Is the inscription a later restoration in a different hand for "age 26", which would fit? - PKM (talk) 19:58, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Sorry - don't know it, but it hardly looks like a Larkin, & I'd wonder if it's English at all. Johnbod (talk) 22:28, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

Many thanks...
Oh thank you so much PKM for identifying the Clouet portrait. I have had this copy for years and couldn't place the sitter, but it had to be the copy of an original and not something out of the (C19) artist's head. Long life to you! Nick Michael (talk) 08:32, 20 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes - fabulous catch! Johnbod (talk) 13:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

DYK

 * Tabloid won out, I see! :) Johnbod (talk) 20:43, 30 January 2008 (UTC)

FAC
Just a friendly note...the FA instructions have changed recently, and graphics for Done, etc are strongly discouraged. They make it more difficult for the people who promote the articles, so you might want to take those out of the Peake the elder FAC. Karanacs (talk) 04:12, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Ooops! Did I drop you in it? I shall continue to skulk at the back of the class, inspecting the ceiling. Johnbod (talk) 00:05, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Textile Arts newsletter
Hello again, this month's textile arts newsletter highlights the expansion of top-importance knitting and good article candidacy for Palestinian costumes. We've had several more new articles appear at Template:Did you know and other exciting developments. Regards, Durova Charge! 23:40, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

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Cheers


It appears our old boy hath his sheriff's badge. Many thanks to you for all your help and inspired work!

When I started work on the article, I didn't think for a minute it would be featured material; but as you unfolded all those pictures, it gradually dawned on me we had something special on our hands. I've learned a lot in working on this article: for example that, with art, the secondary written sources are by no means the end of the matter; also that image information has to be as carefully and fully provided as the article text and must be considered an integral part of a page (so I have started imitating how you title, source, and describe images). It seems odd of us to spend this much much care over such an obscure artist when many of the greats have feeble articles: but, since hardly anyone will read the article, at least that means it will remain largely vandal-free and may survive for a long time in roughly the form we have given it. qp10qp (talk) 14:37, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

trim
If you have a moment, a version of this trimmed of the white space would be greatly appreciated! Johnbod (talk) 22:40, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Fantastic! Richard Burchett coming soon. Johnbod (talk) 18:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Henry Lyte
Seems to have been the herbalist - or Lytes Cary Manor, and here. New to me I'm afraid. Johnbod (talk) 20:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Textile biographies
I fear that I am not the best person to help on this. Textile history is very much peropheral to my research at the moment. Some time ago, I was working on a book on mills, and was incorporating some research results into WP as I came across things that were not right in (or missing from) WP. There is much to be done and a limited time in which to do it. My main subjects are the history of the iron industry and local history in the area where I live; from these, I spread into transport history, economic history, water mills. I also dabble with issues relating to Christianity (being an evangelical), but that is more about eliminating trash and supporting the retention of certain articles that are legitimate but not mainstream. Peterkingiron (talk) 08:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

Textile arts newsletter
Hi, the textile arts project had an exciting month in February: 7 featured pictures, 2 good articles, and 4 Did you know? entries. There's still time to join our featured portal drive. Our March newsletter has all the developments. Regards, Durova Charge! 00:37, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

POTD notification
Hi PKM,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture Image:Edward VI of England c. 1546.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on March 14, 2008. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2008-03-14.  howcheng  {chat} 01:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * P.S. If you could check the article Hunsdon House too, that would be excellent -- this American not knowing jack about British heraldry and whipping the article out in 15 minutes just so I could have the link to it from the POTD blurb. Thanks.  howcheng  {chat} 01:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Congratulations! I've never had one of those, you will not be surprised to learn (given the basic crops I have to ask you to do). Johnbod (talk) 01:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Sumptuary law
Hi, I notice you did a fair amount of editing on this article a while back. I've tagged it for the textile arts project and it looks very close to GA candidacy: 52 inline citations and a broad coverage of the subject. Mainly the prose needs some work and perhaps a few countries' entries could do with expansion. Since you've already done far more work than I have, would you like to pitch in and call it your own or perhaps conominate? Best regards, Durova Charge! 09:05, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I didn't do enough to call it my own. Go for it! - PKM (talk) 17:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

Steven Van Der Meulen
Oh dear, it looks like I need to find time to do Steven van der Meulen. This painting just surfaced at Sotheby's last fall; I had never seen it in color until a couple of weeks ago. - PKM (talk) 17:14, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
 * First draft up and DYK in. - PKM (talk) 03:37, 21 March 2008 (UTC)