Sleeve Eye Candy thread

[Rowan MacD]

I kind of prefer the portrait without the heart.
  There is just something jarring about that 'Barbie-ish' piece of childish jewelry on an attempt at an Elizabethan portrait.   The result is slightly less garish without it!
  LOL

[DonaCatalina]

I kind of prefer the portrait without the heart.
  There is just something jarring about that 'Barbie-ish' piece of childish jewelry on an attempt at an Elizabethan portrait.   The result is slightly less garish without it!
  LOL

I agree. 

[DonaCatalina]

Portraits of Barbara Radziwill- provenance unknown on some 1530-1553 ish

[Rani Zemirah]

I was scrolling through a search link earlier which our Gem posted in response to another thread, and ran across the link to Silverstah's Red Venetian, with the gold and red demi-sleeve that she used, and really, I just fell in love with the look of it!  It's fairly simple looking, and yet it transforms the whole look of the gown into something truly special... and it also looks comfortable enough to wear on extremely warm days, which is very much a plus for those of us who attend Faire during the warmer months!  I just had to the photo here!  I hope she won't mind...



This was created before she started keeping her wonderful dress diaries, so there is only a short page with a very few more photos, but it's well worth the look! 

http://www.silverstah.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/s640x4802.jpg

[gem]

More Isabel de Valois sleeves:



From this 1605 portrait by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz:



(I think we may have looked at them last year when Dona C was making her new green gown!)

[gem]

Time to bump this thread up! 

Puzzling through the puffed paned sleeves on the Tudor Tailor English Fitted Gown, I stumbled across this Pinterest board, which fits right in with this thread! It's not all Renaissance, but quite a lot of the pins are sleeves on re-enactors' costumes (as opposed to portraits).

Historical Sleeves on Pinterest

[Lady Rosalind]

Time to bump this thread up! 

Puzzling through the puffed paned sleeves on the Tudor Tailor English Fitted Gown, I stumbled across this Pinterest board, which fits right in with this thread! It's not all Renaissance, but quite a lot of the pins are sleeves on re-enactors' costumes (as opposed to portraits).

Historical Sleeves on Pinterest

Darn you, Gem! Now my productivity today is shot, LOL!

[Lady Rosalind]

Time to bump this thread up! 

Puzzling through the puffed paned sleeves on the Tudor Tailor English Fitted Gown, I stumbled across this Pinterest board, which fits right in with this thread! It's not all Renaissance, but quite a lot of the pins are sleeves on re-enactors' costumes (as opposed to portraits).

Historical Sleeves on Pinterest

Darn you, Gem! Now my productivity today is shot, LOL!

And now I found the sleeves for my red gown!!!!

B1981.25.444 by LadyRosalindWoodville, on Flickr

[Rowan MacD]

  That is just yummy! 

[Rani Zemirah]

Wow... amazing, but it looks like it would take all day to pull those puffs through the slashes!  Well... unless they are faux puffs, anyway.  Will yours be your actual chemise sleeves puffed through the openings, or an attached lining? 

[Lady Rosalind]

Wow... amazing, but it looks like it would take all day to pull those puffs through the slashes!  Well... unless they are faux puffs, anyway.  Will yours be your actual chemise sleeves puffed through the openings, or an attached lining?

Faux puffs.    There is evidence that they were used for things like this.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

Wow... amazing, but it looks like it would take all day to pull those puffs through the slashes!  Well... unless they are faux puffs, anyway.  Will yours be your actual chemise sleeves puffed through the openings, or an attached lining?

Faux puffs.    There is evidence that they were used for things like this.

Careful so you do not out shine the queen 

[Lady Rosalind]

Wow... amazing, but it looks like it would take all day to pull those puffs through the slashes!  Well... unless they are faux puffs, anyway.  Will yours be your actual chemise sleeves puffed through the openings, or an attached lining?

Faux puffs.    There is evidence that they were used for things like this.

Careful so you do not out shine the queen 

Of course, Gauwyn!

[Rowan MacD]

 The faux puffs are HA, especially in the Tudor and Elizabethan periods, where there were frequently dozens of poufs on a single sleeve. Quite a time saver!

   I am now sold on making some paned cap (demi) sleeves for a bodice....they go so well with sleeves of this type.
   Should they be stuffed (puffy) or left to drape as they will?

[Rani Zemirah]

Wow... amazing, but it looks like it would take all day to pull those puffs through the slashes!  Well... unless they are faux puffs, anyway.  Will yours be your actual chemise sleeves puffed through the openings, or an attached lining?

Faux puffs.    There is evidence that they were used for things like this.

Yes, I've seen that elsewhere.  Definitely a time saver!  I can't even imagine taking the time to do that every time the sleeves were worn!  I suppose if you had an army of lady's maids to dress you, though, it wouldn't take much time at all.  I guess that's one of the perks of being noble...    heheh