Hi Lonnie and welcome! I'm a theatre person too (BA and MA in theatre costume), and pretty new to this list. I'm familiar with this painting-- I do 16th C. Clothing in the SCA-- so here's my advice:
I think the doublet drapes too well in the sleeve to be suede. Looks like velvet to me-- you might try heavy cotton velvet, not that awful acetate velvet that they sell for clothing , to reproduce this. Make sure there is no plastic backing on the fabric if you use upholstery velvet. The person wearing it will just die under the lights! Best Regards- Monica Spence (Catriona MacDuff in the SCA) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lonnie D. Harvel Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 8:26 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: [h-cost] Greetings and question about a painting Greetings! I am new to the list. I have a BFA in a theater from the University of Georgia (US) in both performance and costume design. I went on into computer science, but have continued costuming, mostly in community theater settings. I have a question about the fabric/material used in the Beham "Portrait of a Man", German/Bavarian, 1529. My original guess was a velvet, but looking closer at the image, especially the cut-work in the trim and collar, I have begun wondering if this was a suede of some kind. I am curious as to what fabrics would be likely. Here is a good link to the portrait. Clicking on the image brings up a larger view that can go up to 200% of the image to see more of the detail. http://www.wga.hu/html/b/beham/barthel/portrait.html Thanks! Lonnie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
