It's been a few year since I participated in the Noblesse Largesse holiday gift exchange, but I thought I'd give it a go. The recipient's time period was a little earlier than the source material for the hood, but I figured it should still work for a few centuries earlier as hoods are pretty universal in make and model. The construction of the hood was based upon a fourteenth century hood found in Baynard's Castle, London UK. [See original source material at Opus Elenae's website.]
The recipient's heraldic colors are blue, green, and gold. I chose celery green and periwinkle blue woven silk, lined with khaki colored linen. It is, as they say very demure and very mindful. I tacked down gold wool yarn at 4 and 7 centimeters from the edge, then added faux pearls in trefoils every 9 to 10 centimeters.
Hopefully, they will like it!
- Inspiration
- Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
- Bodleian Library MS. Bodl. 264, pt. I
- Flanders, Tournai
- French, Old (842-ca. 1400)
- Materials
- woven silk, linen, wool, cotton thread, and commercial faux seed pearls.
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