- A
silkwoman was a
woman in medieval, Tudor, and
Stuart England who
traded in
silks and
other fine fabrics.
London silkwomen held some
trading rights independently...
- Joan or Jane
Wilkinson (née North) (d.1556) was
silkwoman to Anne
Boleyn and Lady
Lisle and a
Protestant reformer. She was a
friend of
other leading reformers...
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valuable wardrobe and an
unusually large number of shoes. The queen's
silkwoman,
Marie Wilkinson,
supplied some of her clothes.
Wardrobe warrants from...
- for the Lady Mary. The
stool was
upholstered with
crimson velvet and a
silkwoman,
Mistress Margery Vaughan,
provided crimson silk
fringes and
ribbons for...
- pearls. This was
called "Caulle fashion" in England. In 1563 Elizabeth's
silkwoman Alice Montague emplo**** a
woman "altering and translating" the queen's...
- Jane
Langton was a 15th-century
English silkwoman based in London. The
widow of a saddler,
Langton bought silk with
Genoese merchants, in one transaction...
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Peter continued in the
service of his widow, Joan. Joan had
served as a
silkwoman in Anne Boleyn's household, and was
close friends with
leading Protestant...
- 1543. The
Wilkinson household was
deeply Protestant, and Joan, a
former silkwoman in Anne Boleyn's household, was
known to
figures such as
Bishop John Hooper...
- clothing, and some of the queen's old clothes. The doll,
provided by a
silkwoman,
Alice Montague, was
given to Kat
Ashley suggesting that
Ashley (who was...
