Hello Jen Horse hair is a possibility for stuffing a pillow.
Did anyone see the Antiques Road Show on UK TV yesterday - the pair of ladies 'pockets' as in the nursery rhyme Lucy Locket lost her pocket! Apparently it is very rare to find a pair. The Queens Gallery has an expo this summer 10th May - 6th October. The Art of Tudor and Stuart fashion. There is a great interactive app to download on www.royalcollection.org.uk Diana in Northamptonshire Sent from my iPad On 20 May 2013, at 17:46, Jennifer McNitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has anyone done much research on what early lace pillows were made out of? > I'm primarily looking at the origins of the lace pillow in the sixteenth > century or earlier. > > We have an image of an early pillow on the cover of Nuw > Modelbuch (http://ilaria.veltri.tripod.com/bobbins/nuwmodelbuch.jpg).This > pillow almost looks like the shape of a pillow that someone could sleep on. > What could the pillow have been stuffed with? Would it have been straw, rags > or maybe sawdust? Also, what type of fabric would have made sense to make > the pillow out of? Maybe a linen or wool? > > I would like to make something > like this for recreation purposes at some point, but so far I haven't found > resources for the average Tudor era bed pillow. I've seen fancier pillow > cases, but have not found much info yet for the pillow itself. Still need to > do more digging on this. > > > Thanks! > > Jen > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: > unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to > [email protected]. Photo site: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
