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Dress

Dress

  • Place of origin:

    Great Britain, UK (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1862 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Unknown (production)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Corded silk trimmed with machine embroidered, lined with glazed cotton, faced with tarleton, reinforced with boning, hand-sewn

  • Credit Line:

    Given by Dr N. Goodman

  • Museum number:

    T.22-1973

  • Gallery location:

    In Storage

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This dress is machine-embroidered, but hand sewn. The first machine for embroidery was invented in France. Examples were first brought to Britain in the 1820s. Machine embroidery developed for men’s waistcoats and women’s dresses throughout the 1840s and 1850s. Various inventions of machines for sewing seams occurred in the 1840s, but they did not become commercially available until the late 1850s. It was several decades before the sewing machine was widely used in homes and by professional dressmakers.

Physical description

Dress of brown corded silk trimmed with black machine embroidery. It consists of a close-fitting, short-waisted bodice and a full skirt. The bodice has medium-wide long sleeves and a waistband, to which the skirt is attached in deep, double box-pleats. It fastens with black glass stud buttons. It is boned, lined with glazed cotton and faced with tarleton.

The epaulettes, cuffs, bodice and skirt border are trimmed with machine embroidery in an interlinked design of leaves and flowers. It is carried out in black chain stitch and velvet appliqué.

Place of Origin

Great Britain, UK (made)

Date

ca. 1862 (made)

Artist/maker

Unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques

Corded silk trimmed with machine embroidered, lined with glazed cotton, faced with tarleton, reinforced with boning, hand-sewn

Descriptive line

Embroidered corded silk dress, Great Britain, ca. 1862.

Categories

Clothing; Embroidery; Day wear

Collection code

T&F

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