Hmm, I suppose that's also true - but is it more of an issue because so many people try to use ink they think they can wash out?

Faces essentially identical. Ermine to show royal status. Hats obscured by crowns (imagined, or never worn that way), hair down for maidens. Gowns covered with a symbolic “sideless surcoat” to indicate that they are queens and princesses. I can see jewellery and cuffs, but little else. Sigh. 2/2

Detail of the carving above. The square in the middle has the initials D and LL for David Lloyd, who commissioned this building, around his merchant's mark, with the date below. #WoodcarvingWednesday

Yes, might I be able to help? My focus is primarily England but of course I have to compare it to continental fashion.

Looks like you can still sign up to attend, this Friday evening in Fulbrook, Oxfordshire. Talking about both early Tudor fashion and Elizabethan botany: fulbrookparishcouncil.gov.uk/wp-content/u...

Thomas Sutton died in 1611 and is buried in the Charterhouse Chapel. His tomb is rather a bit grander, but harder to photograph, given the railing. I wonder, though, would John Dudley’s monument still stand had it not been cared for in his wife’s second husband’s honour?
#MonumentsMonday

“Several Prelates and other Persons educated at Charter House School, the Foundation of Thomas Sutton, Esq. by their respectful contributions caused this tomb to be repaired, A.D.: 1808.” This made me look up her second husband, who I found I had visited some seven years earlier. 🧵

with your first spouse, especially if you’ve erected a beautiful monument there. I notice that no one carved in her date of death. Maybe it was painted in and has since flaked away; maybe not. But the additional panels on the tomb tell why it was restored instead of dismantled: 🧵

I'm submitting to Medieval Clothing and Textiles, published by Boydell and Brewer.

I’ve been ignoring social media, trying to finish my first full-length paper about the Bacton Altar Cloth, but I just couldn’t miss another #FlowersonFriday. And while I’m pretty sure there aren’t any forget-me-nots in the embroidery, botanical accuracy in art is very much on my mind. 4/4

She noted the five round petals and ridge around the concave flower centre - but is that enough to name this flower? What about the leaves, which on the cup are ovate and toothed, but on the plant are oblong and smooth? When is a medieval flower a specific plant, and when a decorative motif? 3/4

In connection with its shimmering appearance in the British Library exhibition about Medieval Women, I went to a fascinating online lecture by Dr Mary Franklin-Brown in which (in part) she dove into the identities of plants on this cup, and identified this little flower as a forget-me-not. 2/4