Comments on: The Mystery of the Tronoy Needles http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/the-mystery-of-the-tronoy-needles/ Mon, 03 Jan 2022 21:03:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Rachel http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/the-mystery-of-the-tronoy-needles/#comment-189 Rachel Wed, 23 Oct 2019 10:05:41 +0000 http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/?p=454#comment-189 Have you tried Saint-Aubain? He’s not contemporary, but the usage may have continued for a century or two, especially if it wasn’t restricted to England.

]]> By: Drea Leed http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/the-mystery-of-the-tronoy-needles/#comment-53 Drea Leed Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:20:18 +0000 http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/?p=454#comment-53 Now, that is a very good possibility! I hadn’t thought of tournai. Thank you for the suggestion! (Off to poke through google’s undercarriage again.)

]]> By: Katherine Barich http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/the-mystery-of-the-tronoy-needles/#comment-50 Katherine Barich Fri, 15 Nov 2013 17:47:03 +0000 http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog/?p=454#comment-50 Have you considered that the r and o may be flipped, and that tornoy (Tournai) is meant? Other period records spell do list the English spelling of Tournai as Tornoy. The “oy” points to a French language convention to me. It would match the other place name convention you are seeing with the needle descriptions.

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