Sailors of the Elizabethan period, based on period art wear loose
venetians or what willlater be called slops. Some are shown closed at
the bottom some are not. The upper body garments tend to be either
close fitting doublets, or a loose smock sort of jacket referred to in
the period as a cassock. The real obvious indicator of a sailor is the
cap. The most notable ones being thrummed caps. Thrummed caps look in
art like fur. They are made from strands of woll (thrum) being afixed
through the weave of kit caps, not unlike the modern watch cap.
Thrums are little bits of wool knotted together. If you knit this up, and
put all the knotted ends to the outside, it does look like fur.
Good art does exist out there. A number of Dutch maps shows mariner
figures as does the Mariner's Mirror. Actually the Dutch version and
the English version depict some different figures. I think it is just
after the period, but there are the woodcuts of the BArents expeditions
as well. Some art survivies depicting one of Frobisher's trips as
well. There is also the image depicted in Vecellios that was earlier
mentioned.
CarolynKayta Barrows
dollmaker, fibre artist, textillian
www.FunStuft.com
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