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I haven't seen this year's installments, left off last year just at the
Kathryn Howard stage, in the year 1540. The first early pattern books don't
mention 'cutwork' until 1542 - and they were basically embroidery patterns.
The first real reticella patterns didn't appear until the 1560's. There are
no portraits of Henry or his wives or Edward or Mary wearing lace, in face
Reticella doesn't even appear in portraits of Elizabeth until about 1575.
So the fact that the series shows lace before 1540 is wrong.
I like the series, the forms of the costums are basically accurate, but the
embellishments go way beyond fact, especially for jewelry.
Lace was probably made in England before the first wave of protestant
immigrants in 1563, but it is very hard to trace. Thomas Fuller writing in
1662 says about bobbinlace: Modern the use thereof in England, not
exceeding the middle of the reign of queen Elizabeth: let it not be
condemned for a superfluous wearing, because it doth neither hide nor heat,
seeing it doth adorn. Besides, though private persons pay for it, it stands
the State in nothing; not expensive of bullion, like other lace, costing
nothing save a little thread descanted on by art and industry. Hereby many
children, who otherwise would be burthensome to the parish, prove beneficial
to their parents. Yea, many lame in their limbs, and impotent in their arms,
if able in their fingers, gain a livelihood thereby; not to say that it
saveth some thousands of pounds yearly, formerly sent over seas to fetch
lace from Flanders.
Laurie
- [lace] The Tudors - costumes David C COLLYER
- RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Sue
- [lace] The Tudors - costumes Laurie Waters
- Re: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Laurie Waters
- RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Sally Schoenberg
- RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Sue
- RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes David C COLLYER
- RE: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Bridget Marrow
- [lace] The Tudors - costumes Jane Partridge
- Re: [lace] The Tudors - costumes Nancy Neff
- [lace] Gold bobbin lace Vicki Bradford