With the caveats that artistic representations aren't always intended to represent actual clothing construction, and that representations of clothing decoration are sometimes intended to convey symbolism rather than fabric structures, and that there are multiple ways to create any particular decorative effect in fabric ...
What are people's thoughts on the garments depicted in the early 14th c. Manesse Codex that have diagonal striped designs? Woven as diagonal stripes? Print? Woven as straight-grain stripes and cut on the bias? Symbolic interpretation of armorial designs not intending to represent actual garments? Some other option? How is a given hypothesis affected by other stripe-like designs in the manuscript? (Primarily horizontal stripes, but also chevron designs.) Here's a link to an image showing a variety of these designs, just for reference. I'm contemplating the plausibility of the bias cut hypothesis, but I'm failing to convince myself, given that the reasoning that would support it would also conclude that the diagonal-stripe and horizontal-stripe garments in the manuscript represent two entirely different ways of cutting garments that are otherwise identical in depiction. Heather _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
