I'm already half a step ahead. I had decided to make a baby quilt for a friend and was looking into trapunto. There are several extant examples of it, the V&A quilt is linen with brown and white linen thread, stuffed with cotton. Museum Number 1391-1904, referred to as "The Tristan Quilt". This one is Sicilian circa 1400. There are a couple other Italian quilts apparently, and some from Henry VIII. Some have been silk top with linen bases, variously coloured threads. I caught a glimpse of one that was polychrome embroidered first, then quilted. I wish I could get my hands on that image... I don't know where or when it was from. This type of quilting is most certainly within SCA-period, that I am aware, not as clothing, but as bed covers. I know there is a yahoo group for quilting you might want to sign onto. If you want some insta-boing answers, you could track down Lisa Evans, a quilt historian who presented at K'zoo.
Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert(Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. Its never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 > On the other hand, I just read something saying that trapunto (or a similar > technique) goes back at least as far as 1485, and possibly back to the > 14thC, so I may have to get into it! Nooooooooo!!!!! I have been thinking of trapunto stays from the 1840s now you have to tempt me with hints that it was used prior to 1600! I'd love to know more:) Especially if I can then go and find out if it was used in 16thC Germany/Netherlands;) _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
