Jean de Compiègne

[4] In Scotland, Jean de Compiègne was paid a wage for making the queen's clothes and for supplying and preparing her silk thread for embroidery and other textile craft materials, for "facon d'habitz et soye à coudre et crochetz".

[5] He worked with Jacques de Senlis or Seulis, another tailor and valet of the royal wardrobe,[6] to make masque costumes for Mary and her ladies in waiting.

One of the first recorded items, in January 1564, was a length of canvas to wrap a gift (presumably of clothing) to be sent to Madeleine of Savoy, Madame de Montmorency, in France.

[10]On one occasion, for a masque in February 1566,[11] de Compiègne made costumes decorated with flames recycled from old cloth of gold cushion covers.

[12] The outfits were described as "male apparell", and during the performance the gentlewomen presented daggers to the French ambassador, Nicolas d'Angennes, seigneur de Rambouillet.

[14] He made clothes for the queen's entertainer or fool Nichola,[15] and ruffs for Lord Darnley, and was supplied with gold thread for embroidery.

[27] In July 1574, hopeful of an audience at the English court, Mary asked her ally in France, the Archbishop of Glasgow, to send her coifs embroidered with gold and silver and the latest fashion in Italian ribbons and veils for her hair.

She hoped that Jean de Compiègne would be able to come to her at Sheffield, and bring patterns and fabric samples, "patrons d'habits et eschantillons", as worn at the French court.

[33][34] In later years, the aged master of Mary's wardrobe in England, Balthazar Hully was served by an English tailor, Robert Mooreton.