On May 21, 2007, at 6:47 PM, michaela de bruce wrote:
I wrote that it appears to have been specified when it was stiffened
with glue as opposed to not, not that it was always a stiffened
material. Sorry if that was a little unclear.
It was clear. I was just hoping for a reference for a stiffened
buckram. It seems likely that there was such a thing, but I haven't
yet come across a reference that would certainly establish it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W0elW6Yvji0C&pg=PA84&dq=past+buckeram
http://books.google.com/books?id=ItsuAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR106&dq=Queen+Mary
+wardrobe
I'm having a hunt through these two, paste board is mentioned in the
Revels books as well as fine black buckram.
Paste board was made of paper, so that's a different thing.
A lot of the buckram mentioned in the revels is bought in pieces too
Buckram seems to have been used frequently for theatrical purposes.
Henslowe's diary lists several costumes for his theatre made of buckram:
iij fares gowne of buckrome (from “The Enventary of the Clownes
Sewtes and Hermetes Sewtes, with dievers other sewtes, as followeth,
1598, the 10 of March.”)
Layed owt for the companye the 9 of novmb3 1602 to by ij calleco
sewtes & ij buckerom sewte for the playe of cryssmas comes but
once a yeare the some of xxxviijs 8d
Lent vnto wm kempe the 22 of aguste 1602 to bye buckram to macke a
payer of gyente hosse the some of vs
Lent vnto the company the 1 of septmb3 1601 to bye blacke buckrome to
macke a sewte for a fyer drack in the 3 pt of thome
strowde the some of iij s vj d
He also lists several pawned items as having arrived in buckram bags.
Oh one more:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3X4Iybgb0BEC&pg=PA192&dq=bokeram
Bokeram; Buckram a description of making it is in MS Sloan 73, f. 214
So that might be worthwhile looking up as well. I did a google search
for it but couldn't find anything leading directly to it but it is
probably in the British Library.
That sounds very interesting! Furnivall seems to have published part
of it as the "Book of Quinte Essence," but it doesn't contain the
relevant bit.
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