[MR] Batik

[Simone89 at aol.com]

Greetings:
There is a portrait in Janet Arnold's "Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd" of the Tasburgh family dated 1605. On page 35, a detail of the painting shows  young boy in what appears to be an Ikat doublet and breeches. Janet Arnold states "they are wearing doublets and petticoats in a cream silk with a brown, red and yellow streaked pattern which also appears to be an ikat fabric. As there was both diplomatic and commercial contact between Elizabethan England and Persia, it is possible that the 'Armada' portrait ribbons and the silk worn by the Tasburgh children came from a Persian source." page 34. So there is documentary evidence of a European (late period) possible use of Ikat. I've often thought it would be very interesting to try and find an Ikat like this one to make a very bold Elizabethan out of....
Simone