Rebecca Eggelton
Further images
Woman's loop-braided silk girdle, made by Rebecca Eggelton and dated 1698. On a blue ground, braided with a white inscription reading: "Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vain, but woman that feareth the Lord shall be praised, give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works / Lord my soul like Noah's weary dove, can find no rest but in thy ark above / Rebecca Eggelton, her girdel, 1698" The ends of knotted self fringe.
Very good condition.
Literature
For references to the Eggelton girdle, see Claire Canavan, "Textual and textile literacies in early modern braids," Renaissance Studies, bol 30, no. 5 (November 2016): p. 685, n. 10; Isabella Rosner, “'Women Professing Godliness with Good Works': Quaker Women's Art Before Ackworth and Westtown, circa 1650-1800," Ph.D. dissertaton, 2023, King's College London; and Jan Sibthorpe, "Manuscript Directions for Weaving Braids," in The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (2016), pp. 235, 238.
A "mirror bag" with the same inscription ("Favour is deceitful and beauty is vanity, but a woman who fears the Lord..."), illustrated in Seligman & Hughes, Domestic Needlework (1926) p. 49, pl. 37A. A Renaissance braided silk girdle at the Victoria & Albert Museum, ca. 1540–80, T.370-1989.
Publications
Titi Halle, ed., Cora Ginsburg: Costume Textiles Needlework 2014 (Hong Kong: 2014), pp. 8–9.
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