Extant
Italian Men's/Boy's Shirts (Camicie)
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Museo del Tessuto, Prato
c1560
- 1580
Boy's "white linen
shirt" with "low neckband, embroidered with flowers in
crimson silk and silver-gilt thread". |
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"Detail of W.S* of
neck edge. The linen neck binding is not embroidered
on this side. The bottom row of gathering stitches
used to pull in the fullness of the shirt is visible
below the binding. The bobbin lace is sewn to the top
edge of the binding with white linen thread and has
alternate motifs of white linen and crimson
silk."
(* W.S - wrong side) |
©
For
more information, more detail shots, and a pattern for this
shirt, see:
Janet Arnold, Patterns of Fashion 4. Macmillan, London, 2008.
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