Hi Jenny and everyone I googled "Brilliana Lady Harley" and her dates are c. 1600 - 1643. Does that help identify the sort of lace she might wear - if she wore it? The one google image I found of her shows a painting of her in a sleeved dress with low neck, no lace - she has what could be pearls around her neck. Perhaps Wardrobe didn't know about the Puritan aspect either (whether lace was acceptable or not).
On Jan 14, 2008 2:41 PM, Jenny De Angelis < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > In the programme Brilliana Lady Harley was shown wearing a lace collar on > her dress. The collar looked to be of the Beds or Cluny type but it was > so > crumpled it was hard to tell and it was only a couple of fleeting glimpses > of the lace. It looked as though the collar had been washed and wrung out > > but never ironed, it was so badly scrunched up. I was itching to get my > iron on the collar and see it in it's full glory. The collar looked as > though it might be a good 2-3inches deep if properly ironed. > > What a pity the wardrobe mistresses for the programme didnt pay more > attention to Lady Harley's costume and display her status to it's full > effect by showing off her beautiful lace by giving it a good ironing. > > Lady Harley and her husband were Puritans so I am not at all sure that > she > would have worn a Lace collar, would it not be too frivolous for a > puritan? > > -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
