Ruffle (sewing)
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In sewing and dressmaking, a ruffle, frill, or furbelow is a strip of fabric, lace or ribbon tightly gathered or pleated on one edge and applied to a garment, bedding, or other textile as a form of tr
Portrait of a woman wearing a heavily ruffled cap, 1789
Mechanical ruffler by Singer, used on domestic sewing machines
Sketch of a flounce
Ruff (clothing)
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A ruff is an item of clothing popular in Western, Central and Northern Europe, as well as Spanish America, from the mid-16th century to the mid-17th century. A round and flat variation is often called
Ruffle (sewing)
…hemline, collar or sleeve. Ruffles appeared at the draw-string necklines of full chemises in the 15th century and evolved into the separately-constructed ruff of the 16th century. Ruffles and flounces remained a fashionable form of trim, off-and-on, into modern times. In the 21st century, ruffles have made a…
A ruff from the early 17th century: detail from The Regentesses of St Elizabeth Hospital, Haarlem, by Verspronck
Ruff of c. 1575. Detail from the Darnley Portrait of Elizabeth I
A priest of the Church of Denmark wearing a ruff (2015)
Joan Alleyn wearing a green ruff trimmed with lace, England, 1596.