Quoting Robin Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Sat, 5 May 2007, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
NOw that I can help with. Here's a larger image that I scanned out of
Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlocked
http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Paintings/english_FairGeraldine-qewuFig239.jpg
or
http://tinyurl.com/2qtsgn
Aha. I have the book, just haven't hunted for images in my own library.
(I'm up to my eyes in preparing for my own sessions at K'zoo and am
passing on this question as a favor for another presenter -- I can't spend
much time doing her work for her, though).
Yes, it does look like the embroiderer would have understood that the
inside of the cuffs here would be visible.
There are lots of examples from this period both in English and
Italian art where the collar/cuffs are embroidered with the
implication that both sides will be seen -- more can be forthcoming if
you need additional examples. I don't know what the earliest such
example is, though.
susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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