- Image reference 2006AG5552
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Jacket part
- Place of origin:
England (made)
- Date:
1620-1640 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Linen embroidered with coloured silk, silver and silver-gilt thread
- Museum number:
T.259-1926
- Gallery location:
In store
This panel was probably intended to form part of a woman’s jacket. The triangular piece of fabric, called a gore, inserted into the lower edge, suggests it served as one of the jacket fronts. It is embroidered in a repeating pattern of strawberries in shades of pink and red. The silver-gilt thread is worked mainly in plaited braid stitch and the silks in detached button-hole stitch. Such vibrantly embellished jackets were a popular style in English women’s fashions of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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