British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 366
t which dis-tinguished the Field of the Cloth-of-Gold.The widow of John Winchcomb, the famous clothier, isdescribed, after having laid aside her beads, as comingout of the kitchen in a fair train gown stuck full of silverpins, having a white cap upon her head, with cuts of curiousneedlework under… … Fig. 313.—DorotheaPeckham, 1512.Wrotham Church,Kent. 22g BRITISH COSTUME head attired with a billiment (habiliment) of gold, and herhair as yellow as gold hanging down behind her, which wascuriously combed and plaited according to the manner ofthose days. A rural dance taken from the Chapter-House…
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