Thank you all for the great book & website suggestions. I now have
someplace to start! And Bjarne, thank you for the warnings! I will
definitely have to re-think at least my dream project, which had very
pretty, very allegorical, and very impractical goldwork at the hem &
sleeves. However, I think it should still work for the realistic headwear
applications I was planning.
Looking at portraits is what got me in this trouble in the first place! =}
About 4 out of 5 depictions of my favorite headwear show goldwork; only
about 1 in 30 non-allegorical gowns from my era have it, but it's oooh so
pretty when they do. And about 15-20 years later it gets downright common
on gowns; I may have to dabble in the 1540s! (I knew it had to happen
someday... I just keep edging slightly later. Over the past 10 years or so,
my time period has edged from c1380-1420 all the way forward to c1490-1525,
with lots of stops in between!)
Thanks,
E House
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