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Elizabethan courtiers agonised about giving the correct New Year's Day gifts to the queen to win favour. In 1575, Lady Sussex advised
Elizabeth Wingfield that an embroidered cloak of peach or blue watchet colour and a safeguard skirt would be a good choice, especially if "Waltare Fyeses to have the
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Fyshe retired in 1582 and died in 1585. There are many records of his work at the
English court. His will mentions a gift of a gold mourning ring to an embroiderer Davy Smith. Fyshe married Elizabeth Worthington in 1547. She outlived him. Their son, Cornelius Fyshe was admitted to
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Some garments made for
Elizabeth involved the use of patterns called "toiles" which were sent to France for completion. Some clothes were partly made in France and finished by Fyshe. Elizabeth was interested in the fashions of other European courts, and in 1567 the ambassador
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Eleven gowns of crimson velvet, blue taffeta, and murrey satin, trimmed with sky blue "watchet" and white lace, were gifts from
Elizabeth in 1572 to "Lady Susan Bowser, Mary Ratclyff, Eleaner Bridges, Elizabeth Garrett, Katheryn Howarde, Ysabell Holcrofte, Fraunces Howarde,
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in
January 1579. Amazons and knights arrived at the Palace, danced with the audience, and fought. Fyshe bought coal to air the stored Revels costumes. He frequently signed the Revels accounts as "Walter Fysshe".
104:) was decorated with broad and narrow "lases of Venice silver", these laces were decorative strips or braids woven from metallic thread. The laces and other "garnishments" were supplied by the Queen's
58:.Fyshe was sometimes asked to adjudicate disputed tailor's bills. He inspected the accounts of a tailor called Molde who had made clothes for Anne, the wife of Henry Mewtas (a son of
92:. The gowns of yellow satin guarded with green velvet dressed with silver lace were made for Mary Howard, Anne Windsor, Katherine Brydges, Katherine Knyvett,
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had responsibility for the
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was asked to recruit a tailor in Paris who could make apparel in the
Italian and French manner. Although Norris's wife
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214:, on 11 November 1565. The maids were "Mistress Mary Howarde, Anne Windesoure, Katherine Bridges, Katherin Knevit,
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The
Private Lives of the Tudors: Uncovering the Secrets of Britain's Greatest Dynasty
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may represent a pattern sent from France, possibly by Lady Norris, made up by Fyshe.
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suggests that the gown worn by Elizabeth in the 'Phoenix' portrait painted by
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to tell her that Elizabeth I liked the "strange trimming of the garments".
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Fyshe in mentioned in the royal accounts for 1557. He was a member of the
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to give to the queen, for New Year's Day 1577. In February 1569,
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Walter Fyshe made clothes for maids of honour at the wedding of
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Walter Fyshe and his workshop made clothes for Elizabeth's
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The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Dress
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The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Dress
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Some women received clothes when they married. In 1567,
467:(Maney, 1998), 171–172: "Skinner to Queen Elizabeth",
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HMC Pepys Manuscripts at Magdalene College, Cambridge
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The Queen's Majesty's Passage & Related Documents
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The Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521-1889
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British Drama 1533-1642, A Catalogue: II: 1567-1589
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76:, the tailoring of the gown shows French influence
523:Extracts from the Accounts of the Revels at Court
351:Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
38:. Fyshe made the queen's ceremonial clothes and
30:(died 1585) was a London tailor who worked for
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268:for the queen's use, and to Walter Fyshe.
626:(Maney, 1988), pp. 141, 166, 171-2, 178.
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