On Sep 24, 2007, at 6:38 AM, Catherine Kinsey wrote:
I finally found it on the web site: snip Accession number: 43.243
Again they only show the back of it, and in this lighting you can't
see
how magnificently metallic it is. The museum now dates it to
1610-1615.
I wonder if they
There's a black and white picture of this in George Wingfield Digby's
_Elizabethan Embroidery_. It's plate 22B. The jacket or doublet
illustrated on Pl. 22B was given to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts by
Elizabeth Day McCormick. It comes from Kimberley in Norfolk where
Queen Elizabeth
On 9/22/07, Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like the one shown in Fashion in Detail, 17th 18thc, look for
the polychrome embroidery jacket 1610 with the silver lace, silver
spangles silver braid p16. It's in the VA not the MFA. Same book,
a less fitted polychrome embroidery jacket on
Alexandria Doyle wrote:
Is that an embroidered jacket or one of the knit ones? The Boston MFA
seems to have several in their collection.
Dawn:
I remember it being white linen, woven and not knit. It was a late
1500's style, I don't remember too much else about it, other than all
the metallic
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:
an amazing
amount of work.
Cindy Abel
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Subject: [h-cost] Re: Elizabethan Dressing Jackets
I know you are not necessarily looking for info on the embroidery
A fair warning to others, tho', it isnt Elizabethan. The
jacket in the portrait that they're copying is c 1614-18.
However, one of the pieces they reference might be. There's an
embroidered jacket in the Boston MFA, done in silver and gold thread
instead of multicolored, believed to have
Is that an embroidered jacket or one of the knit ones? The Boston MFA
seems to have several in their collection.
I'd love for this one you mention to have been an earlier version,
perhaps something Elizabeth might have worn as a child or young
princess, just so I can see if there was a progress
Alexandria Doyle wrote:
Is that an embroidered jacket or one of the knit ones? The Boston MFA
seems to have several in their collection.
I'd love for this one you mention to have been an earlier version,
perhaps something Elizabeth might have worn as a child or young
princess, just so I can
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:
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