During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many European tippets were made of embroidered net, lace, muslin and so forth. It should also be noted that in the late fifteenth century the word was used for a cape or short cloak and may have been related to the pelerine.
Sources:
- NETHERTON, Robin (2012). 'Tippet', in: Gale Owen-Crocker, Elizabeth Coatsworth and Maria Hayward (eds.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles of the British Isles, 450-1450. Leiden: Brill, pp. 585-587.
- Shorter Oxford English Dictionary: ‘Tippet’.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 9 July 2016).
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