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Waistcoat
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Waistcoat
- Place of origin:
Great Britain, UK (made)
- Date:
ca. 1745 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (production)
- Materials and Techniques:
Silk, linen and cotton, hand woven and hand sewn, silver
- Museum number:
T.94-1931
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Eighteenth-century buttons are often elaborately worked, as seen in these examples made in the passementerie technique. The wooden core has five indentations on the top, into which silver foil has been pressed. Silver thread and purl (metal thread wound into a short coil) have been embroidered around the indentations. Such elaborate buttons complement the dense needlework, composed of coloured silks and a variety of silver threads embroidered in a late Baroque pattern of large flowers and leaves.
This waistcoat is thought to have been worn by William Morshead of Carthuther, Cornwall at his wedding to Olympia Treise in 1745.
