EditorialBag, Medium: silk, metal Technique: stem, running and knot stitches using attached coils of gilt wire and gilt spangles. Trimmed with floral vine made of dyed silks bound to wire., Woman's bag of white taffeta, embroidered in colored silks, metal threa...
EditorialNobles playing the game of tape-cul, a variant of main-chaude or blind-man's buff, 14th century. From an ancient manuscript entitled "Plaisirs de la vie rustique" in the Gaignieres collection. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Mass...
EditorialLa main chaude or Paumele. Merveilleuses in flimsy muslin dresses play the game of "hot hands." One girl buries her head in another's lap, and has to guess which friend slaps her arm. Two women have the fashionable short hairstyle called the victim or ...