The representation of the lace edging Miss Halswell's white linen collar is most probably of scalloped Flemish bobbin lace typical of the 1630s. Heavy gold and silver gimp lace edging is represented on Colonel Tyne's baldric, the heavily embroidered sash across his chest. Metallic laces were popular throughout the seventeenth century in spite of sumptuary laws that sought to control their use. Santina Levey in Lace A History published by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, mentions that a Committee of Parliament was set up in 1657 to investigate "the abuse of melting down the silver coins of the Nation to make lace."