Drap

There is an interesting exhibit there, "Dressed to Kill" Henry the VIII, of course, in particular the Camp du Drap d'Or.

Milestone Julianne Douglas 2009

"Les Manufactures de Drap Fin en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe Siècles" Revue de l'art, no. 65 (1984): 26 – 38.

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Bowling and tennis or its ancestor, jeu de paume were popular, but I remember Henry VIII was very proud of physical strength - and Francois I beat the crap out of him at wrestling at the Camp de Drap d'Or.

Quiz #2 Julianne Douglas 2008

Note 9: "Manière de Teindre un Drap Blanc en Verd, Nommé Verd de Saxe," Journal œconomique (March 1751): 48 – 58; Peter Woulfe "Experiments to Shew the Nature of Aurum Mosaicum," Philosophical Transactions 61 (December 1771), 127 – 30. back

The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

Bowling and tennis or its ancestor, jeu de paume were popular, but I remember Henry VIII was very proud of physical strength - and Francois I beat the crap out of him at wrestling at the Camp de Drap d'Or.

More on Covers, Part II Julianne Douglas 2008

Drap D'Ete -- A fine, light worsted fabric woven in longitudinal cords.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

Drap D'Alma -- A fine, close, flat-ribbed, twilled fabric of wool or silk and wool, finished on but one side.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

The dress weighed was not of the heaviest material, but of fine old-fashioned merino, or what is known this year as _Drap d'été_.

The Education of American Girls Anna Callender Brackett

Drap your voice low like a organ, an 'let the old man hear it befo' he goes.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

+Trinité-Victor+, pop. 1300, and +Drap+, pop. 800, with a sulphurous spring called Eau de Lagarde.

The South of France—East Half C. B. Black