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Waistcoat

1789 (woven), 1789-1794 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Man’s waistcoat with a 2¼-inch standing collar (5.5 cm), revers, straight fronts and hem, hip-length, with a welted pocket on each front. The fronts, collar, revers and pocket welts are made of ivory silk satin, woven-to-shape with silk in yellow, brown and shades of blue in a pattern of floral sprays on the collar, revers, pocket welts and along the front edges, the rest of the fronts filled with repeating yellow abstract sprays against a brown speckled ground. The back and linings are made of linen; the front and hem facings of ivory silk sarsenet. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front with 12 self-covered buttons on the right front, and 2 pairs of linen-tape ties on the back.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk, linen; hand-woven, figured satin weave, hand-sewn
Brief description
Man's waistcoat, 1789-1792, British; Maze and Steer, Spitalfields, 1789, ivory silk satin, woven-to-shape, blue, yellow, brown floral design
Physical description
Man’s waistcoat with a 2¼-inch standing collar (5.5 cm), revers, straight fronts and hem, hip-length, with a welted pocket on each front. The fronts, collar, revers and pocket welts are made of ivory silk satin, woven-to-shape with silk in yellow, brown and shades of blue in a pattern of floral sprays on the collar, revers, pocket welts and along the front edges, the rest of the fronts filled with repeating yellow abstract sprays against a brown speckled ground. The back and linings are made of linen; the front and hem facings of ivory silk sarsenet. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front with 12 self-covered buttons on the right front, and 2 pairs of linen-tape ties on the back.
Dimensions
  • Top of right collar to hem length: 62.5cm (approx)
  • Chest under armholes circumference: 109.0cm (approx)
Credit line
Given by Mrs Edmund de Rothschild
Object history
See V&A object T.384-1972, a sample book. The fabric used for the waistcoat is represented in the sample book in two colourways on page 177.
Associated object
Bibliographic references
  • Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion, edited by Lesley Ellis Miller and Ana Cabrera Lafuente with Claire Allen-Johnstone, Thames and Hudson Ltd. in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, 2021, p. 124
  • Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6. This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021)
Collection
Accession number
T.371-1972

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Record createdAugust 25, 2005
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