Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 111
, a squareor single skin ofblack fur alternat-ing, checker-boardfashion, with sableor squirrel. Some-times a strip of ermine was edged with a darker fur,that of the weasel called gris. Gathered cloth andvelvet were used with the fur. A pretty knot orrosette of ribbon, a tiny sprig of artificial… … Chandos Portrait of William Shakespere. Muffs and Ear-rings 453 which were two feet long, so that when in use thearms were covered entirely to the elbow. Some ofthese barrel-muffs are illustrated in later pages of thisbook. One curious muff-knot was of two colors of nar-row ribbon woven in checks…
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