These embroidered jackets aren't exclusive to England--I've seen a couple of reproduced paintings(one in a book of Dutch cooking)showing a Dutch upper-class housewife also in the same style of jacket.
Fashion in Detail, volume 1 has a couple of details in jackets done all in black thread. One is impressive in the detail, including shading in the embroidery work, but is literally disappearing as the black mordant in the dye has destroyed much of the threadwork. There is also a lady's smock all done in cross-stitch in original deep pink silks in simple, but effective motifs. It is still an amazing amount of work. Cindy Abel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cin Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:18 PM To: h-cost Subject: [h-cost] Re: Elizabethan Dressing Jackets >I know you are not necessarily looking for info on the embroidery >jackets Alex but, just in case anyone has missed this, the Plimoth >Plantation has a project on to recreated an embroidered jacket. The >Wardrobe Manager is blogging about the project here: >http://plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/index.php?mode=viewid&post_id=8 Catherine, What a great blog! Stuffed full of cool info & delicious detail pics. (Like spangles & silver wrapped silk threads.) Thanks so much for the pointer. A fair warning to others, tho', it isnt Elizabethan. The jacket in the portrait that they're copying is c 1614-18. --cin Cynthia Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
