Bev wrote
<<I googled "Brilliana Lady Harley" and her dates are c. 1600 - 1643. Does
that help identify the sort of lace she might wear - if she wore it? The one
google image I found of her shows a painting of her in a sleeved dress with
low neck, no lace - she has what could be pearls around her neck.
Perhaps Wardrobe didn't know about the Puritan aspect either (whether lace
was acceptable or not).>>
HI Bev.
No the dates don't really help but it could not have been Bedfordshire lace,
I don't think, because from what I have read in books on the history of lace
making in England the lacemakers in the East Midlands Area, Beds. Bucks &
Northants, only turned to making a version of the Cluny type of lace in the
1800s when the market for hand made lace was being overrun by the machine
made variety. They would have been making Bucks Point type of lace up to
then but turned to the Cluny type of lace because it was quicker to produce.
The thread not being as fine and no net ground to make, instead thicker
thread and plaits and picots filling the ground. I could be wrong but I
think this was how Bedfordshire lace came about.
So lady Harley could not have worn Beds Lace but may have inherited some
lace of the same type that came from France I am not sure when lace such as
Cluny types came into being in France, but I doubt she would have dared to
wear it during the Civil War her husband was in the parliament and I doubt
he would have allowed his wife to wear a collar that smacked of being a
Royalist, it would be a dangerous thing to do.
When it came to Lady Harley portrayed on TV, I think it was just the costume
people involved in
making the programme, Blood on our Hands, making an error in the costume of
Lady Harley. I just get annoyed when such errors are made when a programme
is supposed to be accuartely protraying what went on. It's just me getting
niggly with programme makers who don't get it right. My husband is an
amatuer Military Historian and knows a lot about uniforms worn at different
periods in history by armies of the world. He too gets annoyed when a
programme protrays a certain regiment in the wrong uniform, or have the
wrong sort of weapons, as often happens. Why don't they do their research
properly?
Regards
Jenny DeAngelis
Spain.
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