What you do sometimes get with very young girls is just the hood with no
fall at the back. It starts with hennins, where there are a few small
girls wearing the dark front piece and no steeple. It certainly carries
on to English hoods, not sure of sources for French. All my books are
in boxes just now!
Jean
Melanie Schuessler wrote:
Definitely black. In looking at hundreds of portraits and text
references from the 16th c., I came across only a very very few images
and references to hoods of another color. The bags that Kimiko
mentioned are only seen on portraits of girls, and generally in
France. The young Elizabeth would have been wearing a black velvet or
silk hood, possibly with sewn-down knife pleats down the back. The
fall of the hood should be flat, narrow (the width of the head), and
rounded at the bottom. Many theatrical patterns have a flared veil in
the back in the shape of a half-circle or similar, but there is no
evidence for this shape that I've found.
As Kimiko suggests, velvet may not work well in doll scale, so a nice
silk or silk-like fabric (like taffeta) might serve you better.
Melanie Schuessler
On Sep 21, 2007, at 3:27 PM, LLOYD MITCHELL wrote:
I am continuing my retirement by creating historical costumes in
minature for a standing line of willing, naked dolls. Queen Maude
(of Norway circa1906-1938) can bee seen in Doll Craft/Costuming,
issue for November 2007, along with Queen MarieAntoinette. Have
also been having a wonderful time recreating for Maude from the new
Poiret catalogue from the Met. (Also the "Wardrobe of Queen Maude of
Norway")
The latest project is trying to evoke the Holbein portrait of
Elizabeth I,( Kestner Gibson Girl Repro). All goes well; have been
leaning heavily on Hunnisett for the gown;(magically, the patterns of
her books are just the size for the doll, so I only need to calculate
skirt yardage.) But for the French hood...Would the veil on the back
have been Black or would there have been another color suggested for
a young girlof 13 yrs.? And, would this have been velvet as is
suggested as the right fabric for the period?
Next in line is Eleanor of Toledo. Got a marvelous fabric for the
Branzino portrait on line last week. I will be using a lovely parian
repro of the Grape Lady for that model. Her face and stance is so
placid and partrician!
Kathleen
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