Tiffany (silk) is a thin, nearly transparent silk fabric similar to gauze, extant more commonly in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Characteristics Tiffany reveals the wearer's skin.''For tiffany silk was the original " see - through ” fabric — when a woman wore it you could see the woman, provided that ... open mesh cotton fabric, such as cheese - cloth ”, or a " strong, fine - meshed gauze out of which sieves are made ” .''
Hogmanay and Tiffany: The Names of Feasts and Fasts - Page 76
Gillian Mary Edwards · 1970
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Types Tiffany varied from plain, starched fabric woven of silk to flax-based fabric called housewife's cloth (Randle Holme, 1688).''tiffany A thin, transparent gauze of silk or cotton muslin . Tiffany glass Stained or iridescent glass of a kind popular in the early 1900 ' s for decorative objects or lamps .''
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Use Tiffany has been worn as mourning attire, and appeared as trimmings, veils, and dress fabrics, napkins, tablecloths, and scarves. In the 19th century, stiffened tiffany was used in artificial flower making.''For dresses ... A thin, light, silk of rich texture — black tiffany was used to make mourning garments Brocade''
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Ruth Sunderlin Freeman · 1978 https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Cavalcade frontcover
In 1589, the Earl of Worcester gave Elizabeth I a hat of tiffany set with twenty-eight gold buttons, with an additional eight gold buttons affixed to the hat band and feather.M. Channing Linthicum, Costume in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries (Oxford, 1936), pp. 220-1.
See also
Taffeta
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