The book I mentioned before, where I thought I had finally found that was supposed to include Henry VIII's sumptuary laws... well I finally sat down and was reading through the sections as I had run across the proper dates to look under ( Read more... )

First, mmcnealy posted on her LJ a bunch of links on old out of copyright scanned books, including inventories. That got me looking further and so...

Finally, I've found the Statutes of the Realm Vol 1 pdf that contains the statutes Henry VIII enacted, and earlier legal items. And without having to travel far away to look at microfiche films to read them ( Read more... )

I am looking at period images to see what sorts of merchant stalls are shown by the painters of the time. The link that has this conveniently collected is at http://larsdatter.com/merchantbooths.htmRead more... )

A couple of Flickr albums I want to go through in more detail sometime. I figured others may not have stumbled upon them yet, so I would share them here.

Museum of London. Among a lot of interesting images, this has the two wires for headdresses, one "diamond" shaped, the other possibly for the French hood (starting here with the description). ( Read more... )

I decided to just stick to doing stuff on my computer for tonight, and have been going over 1580s images from wikimedia to start with. This time around, I am going to link to the wikimedia images, and any images I scan will be added there. I just want to see a timeline of fashion changes, so I don't see a point in keeping the images on my hard ( Read more... )

My last post, I take it all back. I had forgotten the Rainbow portrait of QEI (c.1600), and that is what I think the person who created that dress was creating ( Read more... )

I was going through links to images of interest from various A&S entries, to give me an idea of what's out there before. And I came across this one again, which I really, really liked when I first saw it. I loved all the beadwork, which look mostly to be pearls. And the fabric is lovely ( Read more... )

On Tribes, Octavia posted a link to the Cleveland Museum of Art's database search, and they have *lots* of textiles that are searchable. I went through the Silks, and limited the search to 1500-1600s, and saw lots and lots of different velvets, textiles, embroideries, and other forms of silk from various nations, but lots from Italy, some Spanish, ( Read more... )

Is this a bongrace on her head, or a surf board???

Joan Suckling (née Cardinal) 1589

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Pants Optional


Came from the GBACG list just now. This is very amusing, for those in to 16th century fashions. Sort of a Fashion dos or don't, using period fashion plates, modernized with Photoshop.

I could envision a set of playing cards using the Bavarian fashion plate originals, which doing a quick google search, found really good copies here, ( Read more... )