The sleeves certainly have wrist openings, but both hands are painted wrist down, so you can't see them. They're there, I an assure you, on the inside of the wrist. At the top, they're lightly gathered into the armhole of the doublet underneath the leather jerkin.
There's a pretty good image here http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/images/Frobisher,Martin(Sir)01.jpg MaggiRos Maggie Secara ~A Compendium of Common Knowledge 1558-1603 Available at your favorite online bookseller See our gallery at http://www.zazzle.com/popinjaypress On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:14 PM, REBECCA BURCH <ctrvlyf...@sbcglobal.net>wrote: > I am, once again, making a Frobisher suit for Ansel to wear at Bristol. > This time I want to approximate the outfit Sir Martin is wearing in the only > full length portrait of him that I have seen. I need some input though on > the jerkin he is wearing. I think that it looks to be made of leather, but I > have no concept of how to make the sleeves gather like that. Or how you > would get hands through such a tight sleeve with no visible opening. Any > guidance would be greatly appreciated. > > I have tried to included a link to the portrait, but can't seem to get it > to work. > > Rebecca Burch > Center Valley Farm > Duncan Falls, Ohio, USA > > The only twelve steps I'm interested in are the ones between the flat folds > and the brocades. --Anonymous Costumer-- > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
