When one knows the wealth of material of the time, and has seen the wonder of the stuffs, one knows that within certain lines imagination may have full scope.
Stuffs of silk, embroidered with coupled birds and branches, and flowers following out a prescribed line, the embroideries edged and sewn with gold thread; velvet on velvet, short-napped fustian, damasked stuffs and diapered stuffs - what pictures on canvas, or on the stage, may be made; what marvels of colour walked about the streets in those days!
It was to the eye an age of elaborate patterns - mostly large - and all this broken colour and glitter of gold thread must have made the streets gay indeed.