Kit for an Elizabethan ruff - plain or lace trimmedEverything you need to make an accurate starched linen Elizabethan ruff! Ruffs are the quintessential item of Elizabethan neckwear. Beginning as the gathered frills on shirt collars and cuffs, they grew into separate, exaggerated, formal sewts (neck and wrist ruffs). Despite the popularity of the fashion, such excesses were prohibited to the majority of the population. An edict of 1611 attempted to restrict the size of ruffs and the material from