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

[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.