{"product_id":"combined-offer-pattern-for-a-pair-of-elizabethan-farthingale-sleeves-plus-16-yards-of-synthetic-4mm-whalebone","title":"Combined offer: Pattern for a pair of Elizabethan farthingale sleeves PLUS 16 yards of Synthetic 4mm whalebone","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpecial offer for two products: Pattern for a pair of Elizabethan farthingale sleeves PLUS 16 yards of Synthetic 4mm whalebone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduct 1:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSewing pattern for a pair of hooped sleeve supports or farthingale sleeves appropriate for late 16th and early 17th century impressions. With full instructions for choosing materials, sizing and constructing garments - perfect for reenactors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Tudor Tailor’s pattern and instructions were drafted directly from the study of an original example probably dating from the 1590s or very early 1600s. It was recently discovered among the historical garments of the family who lived at Wollaton Hall, near Nottingham.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarthingale sleeves are first mentioned in England in the wardrobe accounts of Queen Elizabeth I in the 1580s where they are described as being made from fustian ‘bented’ or stiffened with whalebone. The extant sleeve is made in similar materials to those described in the royal accounts. The hooped supports created a foundation for gown sleeves which had become increasingly full during the Elizabethan era. The fashion for them moved rapidly through society. Only four years after their first mention in royal wardrobe accounts, farthingale sleeves start to make an appearance in the household accounts and personal correspondence of ordinary gentlewomen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFarthingale sleeves are also depicted on several effigies sculpted in the 1590s and early 1600s such as that of Anne Steward (née Shouldham) on a family monument (1603) in Holy Trinity Church, Marham, Norfolk. They had become a feature of lowly women’s dress by the early 17th century. In 1611, the Worshipful Company of Grocers decreed that ‘maid-servants and women-servants’ should not wear any ‘sleeves of wire, whalebone or with any other stiffening’. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe extant support has a matching oversleeve of printed silk satin. It is also stiffened but with one single support at the shoulder. The farthingale sleeve gives it the characteristic hooped profile seen in portraits and on effigies of the era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese farthingale sleeves are the ideal underpinning for our \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.tudortailor.com\/products\/pattern-for-late-elizabethan-ladys-gown-with-variations-tudor-tailor-exclusive\"\u003eLate Elizabethan lady's gown\u003c\/a\u003e. The gown would also be worn with a French 'drum' style \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.tudortailor.com\/products\/pattern-for-tudor-elizabethan-french-farthingale\"\u003efarthingale\u003c\/a\u003e by Elizabethan ladies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is suitable for making a pair of farthingale sleeves for a man or a woman. The pattern may also be altered for a child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProduct 2:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• Synthetic whalebone (plastic)\u003cbr\u003e• Slightly wider than ⅛in (4mm) x ¹⁄₃₂in (1mm) thick\u003cbr\u003e• Supplied in a 16yd (14.6m) roll\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis superb synthetic German whalebone is a smooth, white plastic boning that is light in weight, washable, strong and resistant to crinkles. It is also a good alternative for bents (dried stems of grasses) and, being narrow, can fit in the closely worked bone channels seen in extant garments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis listing includes a roll of 16yds (14.6m) which is the amount used for the original farthingale sleeve described above, as well as those made for Queen Elizabeth I and recorded in the royal wardrobe accounts in the 1580s and 1590s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote, photos of actual garments are examples only – no garments are included with this product.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Tudor Tailor Shop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44563061178467,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0297\/4076\/1187\/files\/IMG_9123.jpg?v=1788690621","url":"https:\/\/shop.tudortailor.com\/products\/combined-offer-pattern-for-a-pair-of-elizabethan-farthingale-sleeves-plus-16-yards-of-synthetic-4mm-whalebone","provider":"The Tudor Tailor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}