At 14:04 07/03/2007, you wrote:
Surviving cut-and-sewn hose from the 16th century:
a pair of white linen hose with embroidered tops and no feet (Janet
Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, p. 207. These belong to
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.)
a pair of yellow men's hose made in the later 16th century as part
of a costume meant to look like it was from the early 16th century.
(Mechtild Flury-Lemberg, Textile Conservation and Research, trans.
Pamela Liebundgut. Bern: Abegg-Stiftung, 1988, pp. 222-231. These
belong to the Berne Historical Museum.)
pieces from the Museum of London illustrated (with reconstruction)
in Elisabeth Crowfoot, et al, Textiles and Clothing c. 1150-c. 1450,
pp. 188-189. Despite the date range in the title, these are from
the 16th c., included as a comparison with the 14th-c. finds.
pieces from the Mary Rose illustrated (with reconstruction) in Julie
Gardiner, Before the Mast: Life and Death Aboard the Mary Rose, pp. 57-58.
Melanie Schuessler
Museum of London has a stocking - 16th century - on display in the
Medieval Gallery.
Suzi
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