Oes or owes were metallic O-shaped rings or eyelets sewn on to clothes and furnishing textiles for decorative effect. Made of gold, silver, or copper, they were used on clothing and furnishing fabrics and were smaller than modern sequins. They were made either from rings of wire or punched out of a sheet of metal.[1]
- ^ Janet Arnold, Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd (Maney, 1988), p. 368: Ninya Mikhaila & Jane Malcolm-Davies, The Tudor Tailor: Reconstructing Sixteenth-Century Dress (Batsford, 2006), p. 44.