Petticoats


Greensleeves is given two different kinds of petticoats


I bought thee peticotes of the best,
the cloth so fine as might be:


The word cloth was used for wool at this time.

Constance Mackenzie has begun to make red woollen petticoats.

Watch a short video about the
red petticoat fabrics on YouTube




Thy peticote of Sendall right:


Sendal is a fine silk, described by Francis Thynne in 1598 as
“a sylke stuffe. ...a thynne stuff lyke cypres; but yet was a thynne stuff lyke sarcenet,
and of a raw kynde of sylke or sarcenet, but coarser and narrower"

Serena Dyer will make this silk petticoat


Updated: December 10, 2024.  

Cookie policy