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An aiguillette, aguillette or aiglet (from French ''aiguille'' "needle") is a decorative tag or tip for a cord or ribbon,〔Picken, Mary Brooks: ''The Fashion Dictionary'', p.4〕 usually of gold and sometimes set with gemstones or enameled. Small cords and ribbon bows tipped with pairs of aiguilettes were fashionable ornaments in the 16th and early 17th centuries.〔Scarisbrick, Diana, ''Tudor and Jacobean Jewellery'', London, Tate Publishing, 1995, p. 97〕 In contemporary military and civil uniforms, an aiguillette is an ornamental braided cord with a similar metal tip, derived from armor fastenings. The plastic or metal aglet on a shoe lace is also a direct descendant. ==Uses== Aiguillettes were made in sets, and might be of silver, silver-gilt, or gold.〔 Surviving portraits show that aiguillettes could be functional or purely decorative, though many were used to "close" seams and slashes〔 that are not always apparent on dark garments in portraits. They were made in matched sets and were worn in masses. The Day Book of the Wardrobe of Robes of Elizabeth I of England records items given and received into storage, including details of buttons and aiguillettes lost from the Queen's clothing: Lost the 2 of February ... () 1 bunsh of small gold tagges or aglettes from a gowne of black satten at Sittingbourne parcell () of uppon the same gowne 193 bunshes〔Arnold, Janet, ''Lost from Her Majesties Back'', p.74〕 Elizabeth's aiguillettes were variously enameled with white, red, black, blue, and purple details or set with diamonds, garnets, rubies, and those of Anne of Denmark in the early years of the 17th century were larger, shaped in triangles and pyramids. One set of 24 were made three-sided, with "27 diamonds in the sides and one in the top", for a total of 642 diamonds in the set.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Aiguillette (ornament)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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