On Thursday 04 January 2007 10:34 pm, Althea Turner wrote: > greetings, > The pile fabrics were much less like velvet and much more like shag > rugs. There are pile fabrics found in late antique/ early medieval > in northern Europe. So while the velvet poofy pants wouldn't be > correct and period, poofy pants made of shag would. >:D
Not really. The northern European "shag rug" fabric was used for cloaks. I don't know of any other usage for them. The Egyptian pile fabric looks more like terry cloth. I'll see if I can find a picture on line. -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
