Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

• PrefaceThe Empress's New Clothes: A Rotulus Pannorum of Isabella, Sister of King Henry III, Bride of Emperor Frederick II - Benjamin L. WildUnveiling Social Fashion Patterns: A Case Study of Frilled Veils in the Low Countries [1200-1500] - Isis SturtewagenWhat Is the Pearl-Maiden Wearing, and Why? - Kimberly Jack"Hys surcote was ouert": The "Open Surcoat" in Late Medieval British Texts - Mark ChambersLondon Merchants' Cloth Exports, 1350-1500 - Eleanor Quinton and John OldlandLaboreria Sete: Design and Production of Lucchese Silks in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries - Christine MeekRecent Books of InterestContents of Previous Volumes

The eclectic but loosely connected contents of Volume 7 do expand our knowledge of the vagaries and importance of cloth and clothing to the medieval world; as such their appeal goes far beyond the confines of textile historians.

Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

• PrefaceThe Empress's New Clothes: A Rotulus Pannorum of Isabella, Sister of King Henry III, Bride of Emperor Frederick II - Benjamin L. WildUnveiling Social Fashion Patterns: A Case Study of Frilled Veils in the Low Countries [1200-1500] - Isis SturtewagenWhat Is the Pearl-Maiden Wearing, and Why? - Kimberly Jack"Hys surcote was ouert": The "Open Surcoat" in Late Medieval British Texts - Mark ChambersLondon Merchants' Cloth Exports, 1350-1500 - Eleanor Quinton and John OldlandLaboreria Sete: Design and Production of Lucchese Silks in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries - Christine MeekRecent Books of InterestContents of Previous Volumes

The eclectic but loosely connected contents of Volume 7 do expand our knowledge of the vagaries and importance of cloth and clothing to the medieval world; as such their appeal goes far beyond the confines of textile historians.

Robin Netherton is a costume historian specializing in Western European clothing of the Middle Ages and its interpretation by artists and historians. Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of the University of Manchester where she was previously Professor of Anglo-Saxon Culture and Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.

• PrefaceThe Empress's New Clothes: A Rotulus Pannorum of Isabella, Sister of King Henry III, Bride of Emperor Frederick II - Benjamin L. WildUnveiling Social Fashion Patterns: A Case Study of Frilled Veils in the Low Countries [1200-1500] - Isis SturtewagenWhat Is the Pearl-Maiden Wearing, and Why? - Kimberly Jack"Hys surcote was ouert": The "Open Surcoat" in Late Medieval British Texts - Mark ChambersLondon Merchants' Cloth Exports, 1350-1500 - Eleanor Quinton and John OldlandLaboreria Sete: Design and Production of Lucchese Silks in the Late Fourteenth and Early Fifteenth Centuries - Christine MeekRecent Books of InterestContents of Previous Volumes

The eclectic but loosely connected contents of Volume 7 do expand our knowledge of the vagaries and importance of cloth and clothing to the medieval world; as such their appeal goes far beyond the confines of textile historians.