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Sottana con maniche, c.1560, Pisa, Museo di Palazzo Reale. Bodice detail. Quite naturalistic lines, but made up of several layers for support and stiffening. Thessy Schoenholzer Nicholson talked of layers including felt up to 6mm, sometimes stitched in almost quilting style for extra strength.
renaissanceitaly.net
1550-1600 Italy: "Aprons were commonly used for housework. This example, embellished with fine lacework and with a later belt, could have been made in the home." (Realm of Venus) "Tabby linen with lacework, h 90cm, w 90cm, belt 87cm. Museo del Tessuto, Prato" At Home in Renaissance Italy, Marta Ajmar-Wollheim and Flora Dennis (Eds), V Publications, London, 2006
History of the Corset
16th century corset is the German pair of bodies buried with Pfaltzgrafin Dorothea Sabine von Neuberg in 1598. This corset is shown in detail on page 47 and 112-113 of Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1560-1620 and in Jutta Zander-Seidel's book Textiler Hausrat. It is made of three layers of cream-colored fabric, the outer layer being silk backed with linen and the inner lining of linen, and has channelsbackstitched between the two layers into which whalebone was inserted. It has tabs at the w
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