Quoting Suzi Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
museum. There seems to be a French Hood frame there too, but it's like
no French Hood shape I've ever seen.
I think I might know the French Hood frame you're talking about; it
puzzles me, too. It's hard to tell from the photo I have, but I wonder
if it could possibly be the frame for this type of Anglicized half
French hood, half gable hood:
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/sca/tudor/cecilia.jpg
My only problem with this theory is that the frame I saw curls all the
way around before going back to the front (argh, hard to describe)
leaving a little circle inside an obtuse angle, which would mess with
the angular corner seen in the portraits. If the circle were on the
outside of the corner rather than the inside, it'd make perfect sense
for this, and give a much sharper and stronger corner than if it were
simply bent into an angle.
Or perhaps it would work as the back curve on this:
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14264/14264-h/images/30ppi/plate53.jpg
Of course, I've only seen this in 2-d photo form, so I can't tell
exactly how the whole thing is shaped.
By the way, I just ran across a cute and rather impressive display:
http://www.artnet.de/galleries/Inventory.asp?gid=1158&cid=101304
I could easily quibble with some of the details of the garments, but
overall it's got a great wow effect.
-E House
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