SILK STOCKINGS 400 YEARS AGO
Stockings of silk are said to have been first worn by Henry II of France, 1547. In 1560 Queen Elizabeth was presented with a pair of knit black silk stockings I by her silk-woman. Mrs Montague, and ishe never wore cloth ones any more. ! Howell adds: “Henry VIII wore ordinary cloth hose, except there came from Spain, by great chance, a pair of ; silk stockings; for Spain very early abounded with silk.” Edward VI was (presented with a pair of Spanish silk stockings by his merchant. Sir Thomas Gresham. Others relate that William Rider, a London apprentice, seeing at the house of an Italian merchant a pair of knit worsted stockings from Mantua. made a pair like them, the first made in England, which he presented to the Earl of Pembroke. 1564. The art of weaving stockings in a frame was invented in England by the Rev. Mr Lee, of Cambridge, in 1589, twentylive years after he had learnt to knit them with wires or needles. Cotton stockings were first made in 1730.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 11 August 1942, Page 1
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178SILK STOCKINGS 400 YEARS AGO Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 11 August 1942, Page 1
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