Quoting Melanie Schuessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Susan B. Farmer wrote:
OK. thanks to the evil woman who pointed out the MFA in Boston site,
I've been drooling there for *far* too long.
Count Richelieu's gloves intrigue me. Are there examples of knitted
gloves *before* 1600?
There's a pair of red knitted silk and metal thread 15th-century
pontifical gloves and one silk and metal knitted 13th-century
archbishop's glove in Textile Conservation and Research by Mechtild
Flury-Lemberg.
Cool. If the "red knitted silk and metal thread" are the ones at the
V&A, I just found them.
Thanks!
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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