[Sca-cooks] Re: embroidered table linens

[Huette von Ahrens]

I have found a lot of references to damask
tablecloths, but damask is a weaving technique and not
an embroidery technique.  The same with brocade.  But
thanks for the
reference.

Huette

--- johnna holloway <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
wrote:
> Peter Brears in All the King's Cooks
> mentions on page 164 in the chapter on
> "Serving the King" that:
> "George Villiers, sergeant of the ewery,
> or his yeoman ewerer for the King's mouth,
> would now lay a tablecloth of white linen
> worked in damask with flowers, knots, crowns
> or fleur-de-lis.(fn5 which cites the HO which
> is the Household Ordinances) He does not mention
> that the tableclothes used for dining in the
> chamber and great hall where most dined were
> worked in this fashion. This would apply for at
> least Tudor England under Henry VIII.
>
> Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
>
> Huette von Ahrens asked:
> > Here is something that I have always made the
> > assumption that it was period, but now am having
> > trouble finding even out of period texts about.
> > Embroidered table linens, or tableclothes etc.
> Has
> > anyone done research on this?
> >
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