Jump to content

Recommended Posts

Posted
In fact the evidence for patterned fabrics stretches way back either side. Checkered and striped fabric remnants were found on the Mary Rose (1545), and San Juan (c.1565) shipwrecks, and pictures of seamen in striped clothing can be found right through the 18th century and well into the 19th at least

Ok... this is like the earring thing...

I knew there was evidence for stripey clothing prior and after the GAoP, I just wanted it FOR the GAop!

:D

Come aboard my pirate re-enacting site

http://www.gentlemenoffortune.com/

Where you will find lots of information on building your authentic Pirate Impression!

Posted

Ah, but unlike the earring thing you've got the GAoP period evidence you sought :D

Foxe

"With this Fore-Staff he fansies he does Wonders, when, God knows, it amounts to no more but only to solve that simple Question, Where are we? Which every chi'd in London can tell you." - Ned Ward The Wooden World Dissected, 1707


ETFox.co.uk

  • 3 years later...
Posted

This probably adds little or nothing to the foregoing discussion as it seems to have been agreed that stripes were used in clothing, but I noticed it and thought I should pop it into the much-debated stripe issue.

"[1668]So staying there [Tripoli] two or three days, some of the country boats came on board of us with things to sell, as your linen stripes and blue linen and your sponges, which they gather about the seashore, being hereabout very plentiful, and also fruits and suchlike.” (Barlow, p. 156)

It may not even be referring to stripes, but to strips, except the modern editor and then owner of the original Barlow's Journal, Basil Lubbock, went to a great deal of trouble to make unclear things clear. So I'm inclined to believe he was indeed talking about stripes, although not having the original journal, it's difficult to say. In fact, having the original journal, I suspect it would be difficult to say. Anyhow...

"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.” -Oscar Wilde

"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted is really true, there would be little hope of advance." -Orville Wright

gallery_1929_23_24448.jpg

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...
&ev=PageView&cd%5Bitem_id%5D=4131&cd%5Bitem_name%5D=earings%2C+sashes....+now+STRIPEY+Trousers%3F&cd%5Bitem_type%5D=topic&cd%5Bcategory_name%5D=Captain Twill"/>