Ben Jonson. Every Man Out of His Humour. 1599.
Lady Cromwell. "Three sutes of ruffs of white cutwork edged with a passamayne of white."
Lady Mary Se'm'. "3 ruffs of lawne cutwork of flowers."
"They are either clogged with gold, silver, or silk laces of stately price, wrought all over with needleworke, speckeled and sparkeled here and there with the sunne, the moone, the starres and many other antiques strange to beholde. Some are wrought with open worke donne to the midst of the ruffe, and further some with close worke, some with purled lace so closed and other gewgawes so pestered, as the ruff is the leest parte of itself."—Stubbe's Description of the Cut-work Ruff.
Anatomie of Abuses. 1583.
"Eidem pro 3 dozin laquei fact' de crine brayded cum lez rising puffs de crine, ad 36s. le dd., £5 8s."—Eliz. 31 & 32.