a fardingale is a farthingale - don't know about the others.A farthingale was a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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goare could be gore = a triangular piece of material inserted in a garment, to give it greater width or a desired shape.
2. one of the panels, usually tapering or shaped, making up a garment, as a skirt. Webster\'s





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I think rowl must be roll, see http://costume.dm.net/farthingale/

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See on same site
http://costume.dm.net/farthingale/history.html#quote
\"To cut this farthingale in silk, fold the fabric in half lengthwise. From the left, the front (Piece A) and then the back (piece b) are cut from the double layer. The rest of the silk should be spread out and doubled full width to intercut the gores. Note that the front gores (A ) are joined straight to straight grain, and the back gores (B) are joined bias to straight grain, so that there will be no bias together on the side seams and they will not drop. The front of this farthingale has more at the bem than the back. The silk left over may be used for a hem. The farthingale is 1 1/2 baras long (49.5 inches) and the width round the hem slightly more than 13 handspans, which in my opinion is full enough for this farthingale, but if more fullness is required, it can be added to this pattern.\"

The pattern to the left used 6 Castilian Baras (5 1/2 yards) of silk fabric which was 22 inches wide. The large, squarish shape of the front (piece A) has the two gores marked A sewn to either side of it to create a flaring triangular front half. The two triangular gores are sewn to the front with their selvegde edges. The two triangular pieces marked B are sewn to the large B back piece by their bias-cut edges. Then the back half is sewn to the front, the straight selvedge edge of the B gore being sewn to the bias-cut edge on the A gore. As Alcega notes above, this results in no bias seams being sewn to eachother and eliminates the sagging which two bias seams sewn together would inevitably experience.



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\"Boning materials used in Elizabeth\'s time include rounds of wood and cane, ropes and rags stuffed into channels, and perhaps even whalebone.\" http://costume.dm.net/farthingale/history.html#quote
Perhaps \'rolls\' of rag or \'rolled\' rags were stuffed into the channels mentioned above to create stffness.
Hope this is helpful.