On Saturday 12 July 2008 5:00:06 pm Joan Mielke wrote: > Very interesting article! I wonder, though, if the apron/dress may have > been made of wool instead of linen. I reread the article, and it doesn't > actually say what the dress itself was made of. It was stitched with > linen, which makes sense, and the silk was backed on linen, which also > makes sense. However, the original drape would work if the dress were made > of a relatively heavy wool. Sort of like a rectangular cloak on backwards.
Maybe not, but the abstract I sent around the URL for does. It's very clear that both garments are linen, trimmed with silk. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."--Edmund Burke _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
