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A dress hook is a decorative clothing accessory of the medieval and Tudor periods used to fasten outer garments or to drape up skirts. Made of base metal or precious silver and silver-gilt , dress hooks are documented in wills and inventories, and surviving hooks have been identified in the archaeological record throughout England.
Trunk hose or round hose, short padded hose. Very short trunk hose were worn over cannions, fitted hose that ended above the knee. Slops or galligaskins, loose hose reaching just below the knee. Trunk hose and slops could be paned or pansied, with strips of fabric (panes) over a full inner layer or lining. A pansied slop is a round hose ...
Sketch of a garter. The band goes around the leg, and the hook on the lower side attaches to the top of the stocking. A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to ...
A pair of buckles for dress breeches. The T-hook of the buckle is inserted into a buttonhole on the strap at the bottoms of the leg of the breeches. The end of the strap is slipped through, the prongs lowered and then the end slipped through the other side of the buckle.
Cloth-making [ edit ] After a piece of cloth was woven, it still contained oil and dirt from the fleece ; a craftsmen known as a fuller (in Scotland, Scots : tucker, waulker ), cleaned the woollen cloth in a fulling mill , and thereafter dry it without allowing the fabric to shrink.
A medieval bill with a spike and a hook. A bill is a class of agricultural implement used for trimming tree limbs, which was often repurposed for use as an infantry polearm. In English, the term 'Italian bill' is applied to the similar roncone or roncola, but the Italian version tended to have a long thrusting spike in addition to the cutting ...
A lucet is a tool used in cordmaking or braiding which is believed to date back to the Viking [1] and Medieval [2] periods, when it was used to create cords that were used on clothing, [1] or to hang items from the belt. [3] Lucet cord is square, strong, and slightly springy. It closely resembles knitted I-cord or the cord produced on a ...
A chatelaine is a decorative belt hook or clasp worn at the waist with a series of chains suspended from it. Each chain is mounted with useful household appendages such as scissors , thimbles , watches , keys , smelling salts , and household seals .