The iconic and most easily identifiable item of female Netherlandish clothing is the heart shaped structured veil, or hovetcleet, seen in many paintings of the time. Most especially in the works of Gerard David and Joos van...
Read MoreAlexandra asked in the comments to the Gaudete Frock post: I am working on the picture of the chessplayers by Lucas van Leyden. As you have a great overview over his work as well as the dutch clothing tradition I wanted to ask...
Read MoreBack in 2007 I decided to make a gown that would have been worn by a well-to-do woman in the Low Countries, a prosperous merchant’s wife or woman of the gentry. I perused the images of women depicted in triptychs of the...
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