1. ‘if it ain’t Baroque don’t fix it.’
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‘if it ain’t Baroque don’t fix it.’

2. Baroque Clothing Types of Fabric mannerist period Heavier weight
Complex Brocades
Velvet
Metallic thread
Heavy Satins And Taffeta
Middle class used wool
Country people homespun fabrics
Linen and cotton used for under garments
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3. Baroque Clothing Terms
Taffeta-usually smooth, crisp, and lustrous, plain-woven, and with a fine crosswise rib effect. Any of various other fabrics of silk, linen, wool, etc., in use at different periods.
Brocades-fabric woven with an elaborate design, esp. one having a raised overall pattern.
Homespun fabrics-a plain-weave cloth made at home, or of homespun yarn.
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4. The Wedding Dance in the Open Air 1566 oil on panel 119x157cm Bruegel
Portrait of Francis I, King of France
c Oil on wood, 27 x 22 cm By Clouet
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5. Baroque Clothing Late mannerist Early Baroque Fabrics Very Stiff
Much interlining
Much padding
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6. Early Baroque Fabrics Satin Velvets Fabrics now soft flowing Natural fabric showing Middle class and poor still were woolen clothes Lace is now being used in both Venice and Flanders
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7. The Calling of St. Matthew Italian Baroque oil on canvas 1599-1600 by Caravaggio
The Company of Frans Banning Cocq (Nightwatch) Dutch Baroque oil on canvas 1642 by Rembrandt
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8. Baroque Clothing Late Baroque Fabric Same as Early Baroque
Metallic threads and Brocades are being brought back
Women still not wearing corsets
Printed cotton garments are being seen in France and England
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9. Queen Henrietta Maria, London 1632 -- Anthony Van Dyck
Chancellor Séguier (100 Kb); Canvas; Louvre – Le Brun
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10. Baroque Clothing Men start to wear petticoat's
Men start to wear wigs instead of growing hair to shoulders.
Hat differ from area to area see page 257 in hand out.
Woad was a European herb (Isatis tinctoria) of the mustard family grown for the blue dyestuff yielded by its leaves - cultivated as a source of blue dye
Madder was a European herb (Rubia tinctorum) the root of which was used in dyeing cultivated as a source of red dye
Weld was a European plant (Reseda luteola) cultivated as a source of yellow dye - also called dyer's rocket, dyer's mignonette and also known as dyer's broom
Lichen - A plant of the division Lichenes which occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc - a source of green dye
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11. The source of the dye for Tyrian Purple was made in Tyre, Lebanon by crushing thousands of sea shells - Mediterranean Murex
The source of the dye for Indigo, the deep, rich dark blue was from the indigo plants and the dye was imported from India
The source of the dye for Crimson cloth was cochineal from the bodies of the Cochineal insects of Central America produced by the Aztecs
Another, older, source of the dye for crimson and bright scarlet cloth was Kermes a Mediterranean insect.
The colorfast yellow dye produced from saffron, the dried stamen of an oriental crocus
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