Aha Bjarne - I have evidence for 'silk grege' from medieval Scotland. It appears to raw silk (still gummed) with, interestingly, gold painted onto it. I would expect that to be quite stiff - used for hats today I believe.
Helen - I think what I am trying to explore is the transparent fabric on the Luttrell ladies the first artistic evidence of the same fine silk gauze fabric (regardless of what you want to call it) On 21/02/06, Helen Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I got my set of swatches from Dharma a couple of years ago, I was > surprised to find out that the barely there veiling in all those Italian > portraits was a real fabric. (My taste runs to linen and wool with > interesting weaves.) > Dharma has white silk gauze in two weights and widths, here: > http://www.dharmatrading.com/html/eng/1639206-AA.shtml and they'll send > you a swatch for just a quarter. > -Helen/Aidan > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Caroline "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." G B Shaw _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
