Tudor Dress Hook - Pair

Renaissance Dress Hook Replica from the Tudor Era.

This dress hook is a detailed replica of an English find from the Tudor period that dates from the 16th - 17th centuries.

The Renaissance dress hooks were worn in pairs on a ribbon, especially in the Tudor period, to keep the hem of the dress off the ground.
To do this, one simply put the band around one's waist and hooked the two hooks into the fabric of the lower dress, which also lifted the upper dress and kept the hem away from the dirt of the street.

Another use was a single hook that was attached to the end of a shawl or cape worn over the shoulders and hooked into the fabric of the dress at the back, where it ensured that the shawl sat securely so that it did not blow up.

But it would also be very possible to use these renaissance dress hooks as a leg wrap hook, as they are the same size as the leg wrap hooks that were common in earlier centuries.

Link to the original Tudor Dress Hook...

The Tudor dress hook is made from high-quality bronze and is also available in genuine silver-plated.

The dimensions are 3.5 x 2 cm, just like the historical model.

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Dress hooks were worn throughout the 16th century by both noble and common women and are attested in hundreds of archaeological finds. The way in which they were used is well preserved in various pictorial evidence from the Renaissance.

Historical illustrations of how the robe hooks of the Tudor period were worn can be found in various paintings:

Feast of St Martin - Pieter Breugel
Peasant dance - Pieter Breugel
Wedding Dance - Pieter Breugel
Picture of an English Lady - Hans Hohlbein
Monument of Richard Knightley - Church of St Mary the Virgin

Here you can find more information about the robe hooks of the Tudor period....

And here a video on Utube...