sleeves

[ursula]

I'm trying to make sleeves like the ones worn by the woman in the lower left-hand corner or the girl with an apron in the back of this painting:

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/g/ghirland/domenico/6tornab/62tornab/3birth.html

How do people think they would have been fastened on the upper arm & wrist? Buttons? Lace? Pins? A couple of stitches?

Comments

[foxen.livejournal.com]

I looked at some images I had lying around my computer and thought I found on example of what you are doing but there wasn't enough detail (basically the sleeves just looked like they magically closed in those places). I'll try to remember to look at some book this evening.

[ursula]

In this picture:

http://www.wga.hu/art/b/botticel/5allegor/51lemmi.jpg

(linked from here:
http://genvieve.net/sca/mcitalrennotes/index.html
)

it looks like buttons.