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33: 202: 620: 124:. During the 18th and 19th centuries, as in the centuries before, lappets would be worn draped to the back of the hair or sides of the face. While some formed part of a headdress, other lappets could be pinned to the top of the hair in a pleated fashion, or simply draped as described above. The lace popularly used to make lappets had international origins, being created in countries including France, Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Spain, Britain, Italy, and America, for example. 133: 221: 70: 78: 337:, literally "tails") at the back of the tiara are first seen in the pictures and sculpture in the thirteenth century, but were undoubtedly customary before this. They were black in color, as is evident both from the monumental remains and from the inventories, and this color was retained even into the fifteenth century. 321:
times each papal tiara has included two lappets. Their origins remain a mystery, though they are obviously an imitation of the lappets on the bishop's mitre. It has been speculated that lappets first were added to papal tiaras as a form of sweatband, with inner cloth being used to prevent popes from
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Into the 18th and 19th centuries, the fashion for lappets worn in the west as a women's fashionable decorative accessory (for indoor wear) expanded. Through this period, lappets were bright white or black in colour, and made of either simple or highly decorative hand or machine-made
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or garment. Worn in a pair, or as a singular long strip giving a symmetrical drape, lappets were a popular form of women's headwear until the early twentieth century, and are still a feature of religious garments. Examples of lappets are to be found on the
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Papal lappets on tiaras came to be highly decorated, with intricate stitching in gold thread. Often a pope who either commissioned a tiara, received it as a gift, or who had it remodelled for their usage, had their
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was a band of cloth tied around the head, the ends of the remaining fabric of which would fall down the back of the neck.
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Lappets were attached to some types of women's headdresses, notably the medieval
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cornet, an old form of lady's headdress, with side lappets; a lappet of this
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The lappets are probably a vestige of the ancient Greek headband called a
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couple. The lady is wearing lappets hanging down on each side of her neck.
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Morris, Frances (1922). "An Exhibition of Lappets and Cap Crowns".
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stitched on to the lappets. Many later papal lappets were made of
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Cumming, Valerie; Cunnington, C. W.; Cunnington, P. E. (2017).
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Sketch showing lace lappets hanging from a woman's headdress
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The last tiara to be used for a coronation, created for
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Towards the end of the 17th century, a cap called the
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has lappets of bare flesh on the sides of its head.
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sweating too heavily during papal ceremonial in hot
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Gastropacha quercifolia
Small lappet moth

headdress
papal tiara
nemes
ancient Egypt


British
hennin
fontange
lace
silk

mitre
mitres
bishops
abbots
Roman Catholic Church
Church of England
Armenian Apostolic Church
cope

Papal tiara
John XXII

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