On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Ann Catelli wrote:
It's not a skirt, and it's plaid (rather a
'window-pane' check), not striped, but do remember,
please, the cut-off cuff found in London, as published
in the MOL Textiles & Clothing book. Tiny stripes (2
threads?) of dark intersecting stripes of medium &
light threads, both verticallly and horizontally. One
way had more threads than the other.
Maybe 1300-1450--it's dated more precisely in the
book.
(Yes, it's from memory, but I'm being too lazy to look
it up properly.)
I'm home sick today so I've got nothing to do BUT look up stuff. ;-)
Catalog No. 64, which is the partial sleeve that's on the back cover,
is checks of madder-dyed and undyed wool, with two darker threads
outlining the checks. There are 8 warp threads to 6 weft threads per
check. It's dated 14Q2.
There are other patterns on both twills and tabbies, both stripes and
checks. Some of the stripes are bands of silk weft on wool warp.
>
I'm guessing that stripes & or plaids were just not
what artists were looking to paint.
At least this group won't assume that any person in
plaids/crossed stripes/etc. is Scottish. :)
Ann in CT
Stripes +/or plaids probably have specific meanings in painterly contexts,
ones that we no longer know. *sighs*
Pixel
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