The Italian fashion in France. The collars of the dresses. Metal and wooden corsets. Display of fine lingerie. The passementerie works and laces. The rules of etiquette. The expansion of ruffs.
The ladies’ costumes belong to the period 1575-1585.
Textiles and Embroidery by Aymer Vallance.
Wilton House is a manor house, famous for its landscaped park and magnificent interiors.
The early history of the Herbert family. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Full length, standing, in black-slashed doublet and trunk hose, with short cloak. Tudor era. Wilton House Pictures.
Iconographie générale et méthodique du costume du IVe au XIXe siècle.
The “Pembroke” tapestry at V&A Museum, contains the armorial bearings of Sir William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke in the style known as “grotesque”.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
THIS engraving shows the upper and lower portions of a vertical panel, supposed to have originally formed a pilaster or border to a piece of tapestry.
Head-dress, Clasp for a Cloak, Rosary and Alms-box, from a painting by Van Eyck
