av Anna-Carin » 30 maj 2009, 14:55
Fel land, antagligen fel tid, och kanske fel samhällsklass, och jag vet inte hur pålitlig källan är, men i alla fall...:
[url="http://books.google.se/books?id=ynMUvGdHZhUC&pg=RA1-PA593&lpg=RA1-PA593&dq=tudor+needle+case&source=bl&ots=ar1MK7Hydn&sig=QSVMwmJGQSEASjKLoNJsKfCKA5g&hl=sv&ei=aDghSuHMI5KQsAajp4jFBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3"]Här[/url] står på sid 593 i "Tudor Costume and Fashion" av Herbert Norris och Richard Martin att <i>The cases in which these needles were kept usually hang from the girdle by a cord. The cover was flat and rectangular, and made from stiff embroidery, wood, metal, or even ivory or crystal: the ornamentation was often very rich. The actual booklet which carried the needles could be pulled down out of the case on a cord. Here is a sixteenth century needle case made of embroidered velvet, the booklet being covered with a piece of brocade.</i> Om länken funkar, så är det en bra illustrationen på den sidan.
V&A Museum har ett [url="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/objectid/O10713"]syetui från slutet av 1600-talet[/url].