Coming up for air
Sorry I haven't posted in a long while. I've been madly trying to get projects done or dealt with for this weekend's Caid A&S Pentathlon competition. My hands have been busy (and getting tired) with hand sewing stockings, and making fingerloop braids, and I also need to do up documentation as well still. I'm entering 3 items only this time, my heraldic embroidery, my English bonnet & frontlet (aka the gable hood), and my completed merchant's wife's ensemble (aka MAAS Embroideress outfit.)
One of the planned projects is a new French hood, which for all the parts I have I could do up fairly quickly - the hood is done and had been sitting awhile, I've got the jewelery for the edge billament, and making a coif is fairly quick. But I already have a coif and an old hat, so that is what I will be wearing instead. I just couldn't justify the French hood for the time period in question for a merchant's wife - if this was for a gentry level garment it would be a shoe in, but for the late 1560s I wasn't seeing the evidence oddly enough among my collected images. The one woman wearing a French hood is from about the mid 1570s or 1580s (not sure the date of her image but she was born in 1560), and the other images that have French hood is a gentry woman in the effigy, which matches Hoffnaegel's image (longer view in color) (see the 5th lady from the left with the French hood - it says in translation English Noble Women).
So, since many of the images show merchant women wearing just their coif (I think - it is all white on their head so hard to say), even at the big wedding party, that is all I will be wearing for the completed look.
Now I can just focus on the small last details, and doing up the writing for the documentation. Should all that get done in time, I will think about making up that French hood to wear another time.
One of the planned projects is a new French hood, which for all the parts I have I could do up fairly quickly - the hood is done and had been sitting awhile, I've got the jewelery for the edge billament, and making a coif is fairly quick. But I already have a coif and an old hat, so that is what I will be wearing instead. I just couldn't justify the French hood for the time period in question for a merchant's wife - if this was for a gentry level garment it would be a shoe in, but for the late 1560s I wasn't seeing the evidence oddly enough among my collected images. The one woman wearing a French hood is from about the mid 1570s or 1580s (not sure the date of her image but she was born in 1560), and the other images that have French hood is a gentry woman in the effigy, which matches Hoffnaegel's image (longer view in color) (see the 5th lady from the left with the French hood - it says in translation English Noble Women).
So, since many of the images show merchant women wearing just their coif (I think - it is all white on their head so hard to say), even at the big wedding party, that is all I will be wearing for the completed look.
Now I can just focus on the small last details, and doing up the writing for the documentation. Should all that get done in time, I will think about making up that French hood to wear another time.