Hi Everyone,
I've been planning some fabric purchases with a new Tudor court gown (in a
1540s - 1550s style) in mind and have ordered some red silk taffeta I was
originally planning to include a matching partlet (so I'd end up with
something in the style of this portrait
Wasnt the tudor partlet primarily for warmth? If that is the case , plain silk
was not as warm as brocade , or velvet etc. Just wondering
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Date: Thursday, March 01, 2012 3:19:23 am
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
From: Elizabeth W elizabeth.r.walp...@gmail.com
Hello the list!
A quick thanks to the VERY helpful people who responded to my call, on behalf
of my director friend, for sources for Don Quixote armor.
Mark has followed up on the connections and reports that he has found EXACTLY
what he wants and at a price that fits his budget.
Furthermore,
Hi Elizabeth,
Well, velvet and damask was more highly desirable than simple silk, so if you
had the choice between simple silk or buying some velvet and making a partlet
from that velvet (maybe because it was all you could afford of the velvet),
then you would wear the velvet. It is also
You don't say how much is needed. If the director hasn't already done so he
might contact colleges and universities, even large high schools, Knights of
Columbus, etc. to borrow. Use might be cut down to minimal pieces,i.e. arm
guards and breast plates with shirts of flowing sleeves and lavish
Ruth, he might also seek help from the nearest SCA. Audy
in the high boonies of Central Texas
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Hi,
I am not nearly as experienced here as most of you, but looking at the
pictures, what I see is not always brocade with brocade or always black
velvet if plain, but that the partlet always matches another fabric in the
dress. The black velvet partlet matches the black velvet on the
It may even be like Copley, the American painter didPaint the same
dress, and just add the face of the person you are painting. I often wonder
if the painter had the gown on loan and painted it, in its minute detail,
without the subject having to sit there all day. Or maybe the painter
I have been told that the common method (at least for Italian painters of
this period) was to be granted a relatively short audience often while the
subject was doing something else and the prinicipal artist would bring
several apprentices with them each one would be give a task to pay
attention
