Overview
Thomas Arthur was a Scottish tailor who worked for James V of Scotland.
Arthur was made master tailor to the king in 1529. During the previous years of the king's minority, his clothes had been made by Andrew Edgar.
Arthur's work is known through the accounts of the treasurer of Scotland, and inventories of the king's clothes. The published editions of the accounts by James Balfour Paul do not include the detail of the lining and secondary fabrics of costume, described in the original manuscripts in the National Archives of Scotland.
In January 1540 Arthur made "play coats" of red and yellow taffeta, and a side cape for one of the players. These costumes were for an early performance of David Lindsay's "A Satire of the Three Estates" in the Great Hall of Linlithgow Palace.
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