With Coronations in mind, and also the Holy Emperor Frederick II, about whom I have been teaching recently, I came across these splendid pictures recently on the internet and thought I would copy them for others to appreciate the craftsmenship involved and the ceremonial that workmanship served to augment.
The Insignia of the Holy Roman
Empire preserved in the Schatzkammer in the Hofburg in Vienna is a set of various items of clothing collected and made over
a period of many years that were used by various Emperors of the empire.
The robes and other items were often used only on state occasions such
as coronations.
These gloves were made in the early thirteenth century for the coronation of Emperor Frederick II in 1220. As with many of
the other sumptuous garments that make up the Insignia
of the Holy Roman Empire, the gloves were made in the Royal Workshops
of Sicily.
The stitches and techniques involved include underside couching,surface couching and applied pearls, emeralds, rubies, sapphires and enamelled plaques. The materials used include red silk and gold wire embroidery, plus the pearls, saphires, rubies, enamelled plaques. The palms of the gloves are worked in the design of single-headed eagle, using gold thread, in underside couching.
There are links to Images
of Gloves at the Rubens Art Server and Exhibition
of the Secular Treasury at Kunsthistorisches Museum
Image and text sources : medieval.webcon.net.au
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