I wasn't referring to the spangles, but to the pattern of longer and
shorter lines, which looks like slashing and pinking, but I don't think
it is. If you look closely, each line looks like it is embroidered on
top of the fabric with metallic thread. I meant to suggest that this
may in fact be the artist trying to depict slashes in the black that are
backed by a metallic fabric.
In any case, I don't think it is smocking, nor does it look like actual
strapwork to me.
Melanie Schuessler
otsisto wrote:
Those are spangles and not cloth of gold. And though Canadians like to claim
the smocking technique, it was done way before Canada was Canada. I vaguely
remember seeing it once on a extent 1700s French stomacher.
De
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I'm going to assume that you meant to suggest this portrait as an
example of Canadian smocking, but I don't think it is. It's possible
that it's slashing-and-pinking, but in fact on close inspection it looks
more like embroidery meant to look like slashing-and-pinking. Or it may
be that this is an illusion created by the artist trying to represent
slashing backed by cloth-of-gold.
Melanie Schuessler
otsisto wrote:
http://www.tudor-portraits.com/Elizabeth12.jpg
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