LADY ELLEN'S FINE WARE

11.13.08 | Middleburg Virginia Hunt Country Life

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this June, the group specializes in Regency and English country dancing, and hosts formal balls throughout the year.

Under the guidance of dance master Thomas Spilsbury and with live music played by pianist Julie Gorka, the dancers meet once a month at the Trinity Church Parish House to learn the steps for dances for their upcoming ball.

03.01.08 | Lady Ellens at Historic Winter Market in Frederick, MD
From the Frederick News-Post: Ellen Ruck tends to her dresses for sale during the Historic Winter Market held at the Lynfield Event Complex on Sunday.

10.12.07 | Jacobus Vanderveer House - Journey Through the Past
From the Vandeveer House Website: Lady Ellen Ruck of Colony Farm Antiques in Chester lectured on 18th century fashions from bum rolls to ball gowns.

05.19.07 | Colonial Faire Newport News VA Endview Plantation
From the Colonial Faire Website: Lady Ellen Ruck will present & discuss layering of the fashions of the colony of Virginia and related social customs of a personal nature such as cosmetics, posture & cleanliness.

01.15.06 | Colony Farm Antiques at New Hope PA
From the Antiques and Arts Weekly (aka The Newtown Bee): Commenting that it was "refreshing to see such a good gate," she said that the first of many items to leave her booth was some Flow Blue that she had just purchased in Arkansas on her return trip home. "

09.07.01 | Ellen Ruck of Colony Farm Antiques at Farmington CT
From the Antiques and Arts Weekly (aka The Newtown Bee): Colony Farm Antiques sold Eighteenth Century pewter mugs and plates, advertising tin cans, a woolly Welsh sampler, brass spring pocket scales, medical inhaler, wood trade signs, figural trade signs, and woven Jacquard coverlet pillows.