Not As Useful As I'd Hoped

So there was a painting I remembered seeing back in college where you could see the tapes holding the pleats of a giornea in place, but I couldn't remember for the life of me where I'd seen it. I was beginning to think that I'd imagined the whole thing. Someone mentioned it after my class at Pennsic, and said that it was in the Birbari book that I poked through regularly back in the day. serafinalamanni found a copy of the book and the name of the painting, and it turns out that I'd had access to it all the time, right there in the Web Gallery of Art.

So, on the good side, it definitely shows stay tapes being used to arrange pleats, and it is Italian. On the bad side, it's far too late to really be solid evidence for 15c garments. Ah well!