The bereaved wore black, and widows wore
a black veil over their head until they remarried or died. Rouge
was worn by lower class women. The law dictating what clases could
wear what clothes was difficult to enforce and the last one was in
1597.
Cotton chintzes, calicoes, taffetas, muslins, and ginghams from
India were fashionable as dress fabrics. Simple cotton replaced
linen as the norm for napkins, tablecloths, bed sheets, and
underwear. Then it became the fashion to use calicoes for
curtains, cushions, chairs, and beds. Its inexpensiveness made
these items affordable for many. There was a cotton-weaving
industry in England from about 1621, established by cotton workmen
who fled to England in 1585 from Antwerp, which had been captured.
By 1616, there were automatic weaving looms in London which could
be operated by a novice. Toothbrushes, made with horsehair, were a
new and costly luxury.
Even large houses now tended to do without a courtyard and became
compacted into one soaring and stately whole. A typical country
house had deep-set windows of glass looking into a walled green
court with a sundial in it and fringed around with small trees.
The gables roofs are steep and full of crooks and angles, and
covered with rough slate if there was a source for such nearby.
There was an extensive use of red tile, either rectangular or
other shapes and with design such as fishscales.
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