A Newly Married Venetian Woman and a Venetain Nobel Woman, from Habitus Variarum Orbis Gentium 1581, from the Los Angels County Museum of Art. 

Seen together with my image to show how this dress and veil combination might have been worn.  The image to the left appears to show embellishment along the short edge of the veil.  The silk veil I am wearing has fresh water pearls sewn in along the short edge.  This gives it extra weight and stability.

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