I am not sure if this is what you are looking for but in gold
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_I_c_1570.jpg
Trim of gold
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MargaretAudley.jpg
I thought I had seen one painting with black lace ruff but I can't seem to
recall the country.
In a message dated 1/8/2009 3:00:32 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
otsi...@socket.net writes:
I thought I had seen one painting with black lace ruff but I can't seem to
recall the country.
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I've seen a black ruff somewhere too. But I'm thinking it was a theatrical
I just happened to borrow Strong's English Icon, so I thumbed through it
looking for black ruffs. There aren't any all-black ruffs, but there are a few
edged in black and a few more that are heavily embroidered with blackwork. I
could only find three online:
Van Dyck painted silver ruffs on noblewomen from Genoa. Not black but
interesting. Also, in one the neck ruff and the wrist ruffs are a different
color.
Monica
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com]on
Behalf Of mlysett
Sent: Thursday,
At 20:08 08/01/2009, you wrote:
I just happened to borrow Strong's English Icon, so I thumbed
through it looking for black ruffs. There aren't any all-black
ruffs, but there are a few edged in black and a few more that are
heavily embroidered with blackwork. I could only find three online:
Hello,
I just purchased an old straw hat that is rather dusty. The decorations are
all trashed but the straw still seems to be good to my very much untrained
eye. Any ideas on how to clean it up and get it ready to be worn? I find
conflicting info when I google it and I don't want to ruin it.
Thank you Margaret - if the other pictures are also just edged then these are
fine. I am going to pull my hair out...I know I've seen at least one - but
where?
Strong's book is so great - I used to have access to a copy - but have to get
it through ILL - pain in the butt these days - just
Jennifer: I attended a workshop several years ago taught by a milliner who
specialized in straw.? She just dunked the whole hat in a bucket of water and
reshaped the wet hat over a form followed up by judicious use of a regular
steam iron.? I didn't know until then that straw was so forgiving.?
Ditto on the soap and water. On a particularly discolored one I used
Oxyclean, it took out a lot of yellowing with no apparent damage to the
straw.
Beth Chamberlain
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life Henry Ward
Beecher
http://mysite.verizon.net/bachamberlain
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