Note 40 — TEXTILE FABRICS (continued 2)

A similar usage prevailed at Valladolid. The account of this city as it existed in 1605, published by Gayangos in the Revista de España, describes Don Juan de Tassis, Count of Villamediana, as “riding in the finest clothes imaginable; his cloak, jacket, breeches, shoes, and the trappings, harness, reins, etc., of his horse, being all embroidered with the finest twisted silver thread. Even his horse's blinkers were of the same material.”