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I made two new designs for myself on Spoonflower (custom printed yardage), but they are available to buy if other people want them. My most popular design, however, is the Elvish calligraphy trim. I get about a dollar per yard someone else buys. Spoonflower will print on linen, velvet, chiffon, cotton twill... many different fabrics. Also wallpaper.

The designs are an irregular peppermint candy cane stripe, and Elizabethan pearl-and-goldwork from a painting - see image.

My designs are here: https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/cvirtue?sort=new

YouTube pays creators: Good to know: a creator I support via Patreon was asked: "If a YouTube Premium viewer watches your video, does YouTube give you a share of their premium payment in lieu of them watching your content but not watching adverts on your content? Creator: They do, and in some cases it's more than I get for people watching ads."

Book: My current favorite new book is based on this series of shorts by the woman that's been doing armor & movie swordfights reviews for years; her description of this is "Caroline wants to write a romantasy novel. Rosamund, her heroine, isn't quite the compliant 18-year-old she expected..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFZrnSkQb1w&list=PLj4N-R1RQxAt60HueNg7w0IMrZPO8WweR

Videos she has done which I recommend:

Inigo vs. Westley: Princess Bride Perfection [CV: choreography of the swordfight at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity, and how it supports the storyline] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0rkUbrPo3k

Just Stab Me Now: A Women's Armour Tier List: Can you move? Can you breathe? Can you fight? [CV: I'm sure you've noticed a lot of fictional armor makes ZERO practical sense.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbJK4T-SBRA

How to Hide a Sword in Your Dress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5Z6awBSb8

Tiffany window: Video from the Met about a huge Tiffany window they just bought & restored, this one was one of the many designed by Agnes Northrop. https://youtube.com/watch?v=KfdWikGUT5Q&si=hfPl62aOaxSHQpNI

Snow crystals: This person lives in Alaska and does close-up video of snow crystals that form on spider webs. Account name is Lotze Art & Design, if for some reason you can't see this without a FB account. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1FjuinfYmp/

From Truly Victorian on FB, today/yesterday:

FRAUD ALLERT UPDATE - We have identified the fraudster as Dorothy Ohare of thefarthingale.com and Farthingale Enterprise here on FB.

NOT Farthingales in Canada
farthingalescorsetmakingsupplies com <- this company is not related to the pirate in any way.

She has now removed her sales listings from her website of Truly Victorian, Laughing Moon Mercantile, and Margo Anderson patterns. I suspect those other patterns were fraudulent as well.

It looks like she has been doing this for some time, since 2023 possibly. I am sad to say that I know this person, and many years ago was a legitimate reseller of our patterns. We are such a small community of Historical Costumers, and it is hard to believe that one of our own would do this.

FRAUD ALLERT - I was just contacted by a visitor to the San Fransisco Dicken's Fair that she was sold a pirated copy of a Truly Victorian pattern. It was a printed version of our AO digital pattern. Not only was the pattern unauthorized, is was also incomplete. I have not yet ferreted out who sold the pattern, so if anyone has any leads, I will be thankful.

The unfortunate buyer was unaware that the pattern was fraudulent, and only contacted me to get the missing pages.
The buyer provided this photo of the pattern she bought.

If you ever see a Truly Victorian pattern being sold in a manila envelope, it is a pirated copy! If you see a pattern that has A1 in a circle (or other letter/number combo) on it, IT IS A PIRATED COPY!

This seller also created their own cover page, with illustration (without scrollwork frame), and self typed size chart and description.

If you see these patterns for sale, do not buy these patterns, and please contact me with any information you may have about the seller.

Many things: snowflake close ups, elizabethan goldwork...

Historical pattern copyright intentional fraud, apparently