Hi Lonnie, Welcome to the List. :-)
Im apt to lean toward wool for this one. It doesn't have the typical luminosity that silk velvets would have had at the time and the hand of the fabric looks pretty dense. As to the pinking though, any fabric will take that kind of decoration. It's a matter of how well it will stand up to regular abuse. A judicious application of an adhesive on the back side before pinking will help just about anything endure abuse a little longer. Interesting though how it appears that his smock looks like it could be red. That's vanishingly rare. Im wondering where the closure is? Back seems illogical for men - perhaps down the far side? The collar looks to be hanging asymmetrically. Kathy > I have a question about the fabric/material used in > the Beham "Portrait > of a Man", German/Bavarian, 1529. My original guess > was a velvet, but > looking closer at the image, especially the cut-work > in the trim and > collar, I have begun wondering if this was a suede > of some kind. I am > curious as to what fabrics would be likely. Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert ItÂ’s never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. -Ivan Panin __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
