Partlett eye candy

[DonaCatalina]

Oh Gem, wherefore art thou?
Net Partlets
Catherine de Medici

Catherine de Medici again

[isabelladangelo]

[Rowan MacD]

 You two are doing just fine.  I'm drooling over the detail Isabella...That partlet looks like its trimmed with finger braid.

[isabelladangelo]

It probably is.     It's a close up of one of Eleanor de Toledo's partlets. 

Here's a sheer  partlet shown over a gown:



And here is a close up of one I plan to do in the next year or so:


DSC03432 par Isabella, on ipernity

The close up is from this portrait:


DSC03429 par Isabella, on ipernity

[Rani Zemirah]

Ohhh... so much pretty!!! 

[Rowan MacD]

  I have got to make the Eleanor of Toledo pearl partlet.
  I am hereby adding it to the list of winter projects-since I'm not going to make another gown this time.   Does anyone have pics of a recent effort?
  I would like to examine a photo of a beaded partlet....

[DonaCatalina]

Eleanora Dianora de Toledo- anyone have a better photo that shows partlett details?

Illegitimate daughter of Fernando I

[isabelladangelo]

You mean like this?


partletportraitcloseup par Isabella, on ipernity

More on the painting is here at the Hermitage Museum.

A similar styled partlet is shown here:

[Rowan MacD]

And here is a close up of one I plan to do in the next year or so:


DSC03432 par Isabella, on ipernity

I'm stumped on this one...Is that a wavy pintuck?

[Lady Rosalind]

Looks like it is, Rowan! I love pin tucks!!!

[operafantomet]

And here is a close up of one I plan to do in the next year or so:


DSC03432 par Isabella, on ipernity

I'm stumped on this one...Is that a wavy pintuck?

Moda a Firenze describes it as silk or linen, starched and pleated down when wet, to create that specific pattern. It had to be repeated after every wear, or nearly so anyway.

I have wondered, though, if some of them are not pleated or tucked utilizing metal threads in the silk. Some closeups of a Bronzino portrait shows metal shine in the tucks. And that sme was permanently tucked down also makes sense. So I guess there were more than one way to make them.

[gem]

Thought it was a good time to bump this thread!

[operafantomet]

Someone asked for partley eye candy? Italian, as usual...



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