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link 29.11.2005 23:32 |
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Subject: surnap textile Пожалуйста, помогите перевести.Слово встречается в следующем контексте: One table twenty-eight feet long was covered with a pearl-edged surnap of velvet... "nap" - ворсовая ткань; исходя из этого, я предполагаю, что речь идет о плотной и\или толстой бархатной скатерти, относящейся к убранству королевских покоев Англии конца шестнадцатого века. Заранее спасибо |
| "A sewer and a gentleman usher now brought a linen surnap and a towel from the ewery table, these having been carefully folded together in the form of a rectangular concertina. The surnap, as the name suggests, was designed to cover the napery, and was simply a long white linen cloth; the towel was another piece of linen damask, worked with lover's knots or fleur-de-lis and measuring some twenty-seven inches (68.5 cm) wide. Placing these on the table end to the King's right, the usher would put his rod inside the surnap and towel and walk down the front of the table, drawing them out across the tablecloth and and reverencing the King when he was directly before him; then he would proceed a few feet beyond the far end of the table and kneel there, while supporting his end of the surnap and towel. Back at the end of the table, the sewer now knelt and firmly gripped his end of the surnap and towel, so that the user could stretch them taut and and fold the overhanging end up onto the table. Then he would rise, walk before the King to his right side, and slip his rod beneath the surnap and towel to form a single loose pleat called an estate. Passing before the King with a further reverence, he made a similar estate to the King's left before returning to his end of the table, kneeling and straightening the towel once more. Having completed these duties, he again carried his rod before the King, reverenced him, and returned to his place. Now the nobles bearing the ewer and basin approached, so that the King could wash his hands and dry them on the towel. To complete this whole ceremony, the user slipped his rod into the folded towel and surnap at his end and pulled them along towards the King, while the sewer brought up his end at the same time so that towel and surnap were gathered together for the sewer to take back to the ewery table." |
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link 30.11.2005 0:08 |
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Yes, I have found it already myself. The reference link is http://gallowglass.org/jadwiga/herbs/handwater.html Thanks anyway! |
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