Thanks, Annette, for sending this image! No matter how it was done,
it was a huge amount of work. It's hard for me to imagine that this
could be successfully set if all those points were stitched together
at the start. (Does heat damage pearls? I suppose they could be
fake ones made of
of my heritage at our Faires by dressing as
a noble Hungarian lady.
I just do a generic lower noble English lady and I'd like a change.
Melody
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Suzi Clarke s...@suziclarke.co.uk wrote:
From: Suzi Clarke s...@suziclarke.co.uk
Subject: Re: [h-cost] stitching on ruffs [SEC
That, or the painter painted her sitting in the one time it looked good.
So I would guess that these are either pearl-headed pins, or that the lady
was willing to pay to have it stitched each time after it was set.
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At 00:29 14/04/2009, you wrote:
Until recently I had thought that the figure-of-eight ruffs were never
stitched to hold the shape, but last week I found a portrait in a
current Sotherby's catalogue for a sale of Old Master and early British
paintings.
This is the link to the catalogue:
I would not rule out pins altogether...some with 3 pearl heads...because
it's difficult to set. That's the whole point of a formal tortured ruff,
isn't it?
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Until recently I had thought that the figure-of-eight ruffs were never
stitched to hold the shape, but last week I found a portrait in a
current Sotherby's catalogue for a sale of Old Master and early British
paintings.
This is the link to the catalogue:
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Subject: Re: [h-cost] stitching on ruffs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Until recently I had thought that the figure-of-eight ruffs were never
stitched to hold the shape, but last week I found a portrait in a
current Sotherby's catalogue for a sale of Old Master and early British
paintings
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To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] stitching on ruffs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Until recently I had thought that the figure-of-eight ruffs were never
stitched to hold the shape, but last week I found a portrait in a
current Sotherby's catalogue for a sale of Old Master and early
