RE: [h-cost] Frilled-edge veils (was: "ruffs on the head?")

[Robin Netherton]

> I've never heard of this woven frilled edge before. I> expect it explains the 
> complex but seamless frill on> the veil in the Arnolfini Wedding portrait, 
> wouldn't> it?> > 
> http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/1434_arnolfini_lady_sm.jpg> or> 
> http://tinyurl.com/39cq3c
Van Eyck painted a number of those frilled-edge veils, and he gives us a very 
good view of that seamless transition. Carla Tilghman focused on another of his 
paintings as one of her examples in her MC&T article about the possible weaving 
method.
 
--Robin
 
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