Some pretties, including a few I hadn't seen before

[isabelladangelo]

http://picasaweb.google.com/Designs121/ElizabethanCostume

I hadn't seen the blackworked jacket before. There are a lot of interesting portraits and extant pieces from the latter half of the 16th c. I also really like the upside down peacock feather embroidered on red.

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[attack-laurel.livejournal.com]

The jacket is in the Manchester Art Gallery. It is so fragile at this point that it can't be displayed, or even mounter for photography. They have more information about it and a better picture here (http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/display.php?EMUSESSID=63ddf3924e4ba4ecdfbfc3acfbb9a980&irn=14575).