Ponderings
2005-10-23 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
liadethorneggeSo, I've looked through old pictures and I've come to the conclusion that my flat cap works as it is. If I put it on properly it looks fine. But I still want to make a new version, with a larger crown. Possibly from black velvet. Anyway, things are good there.
I've also surfed up some more portraits to ponder for inspiration for my green brocade. I rather like this portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, especially the sleeves wich start with standing, gathered loops and then looks to continue as four-panel-sleeves. All the catching points are also accentuated by "spangles" which look to be four pearls, or glass beads, threaded on a pin. I could do that. This portrait has a pickadil border around the neckline. I'm still somewhat sceptical of that kind of partlet, only because I'm not sure I could pull one off successfully. And I don't have that many pearls. Looks like side-back or back-closing too.
I've also surfed up some more portraits to ponder for inspiration for my green brocade. I rather like this portrait of Eleonora of Toledo, especially the sleeves wich start with standing, gathered loops and then looks to continue as four-panel-sleeves. All the catching points are also accentuated by "spangles" which look to be four pearls, or glass beads, threaded on a pin. I could do that. This portrait has a pickadil border around the neckline. I'm still somewhat sceptical of that kind of partlet, only because I'm not sure I could pull one off successfully. And I don't have that many pearls. Looks like side-back or back-closing too.
