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Stomacher

1730-1750 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Woman’s stomacher of bleached linen, backed with coarse linen, lined with a finer linen and reinforced with strips of baleen. It is embroidered with coloured silks in stem and satin stitches and French knots in a single branching stem, bearing exotic flowers and leaves, against a ground of back-stitched diaper pattern. The edges are bound with narrow yellow silk grosgrain ribbon.

There are two pins, one loose headed and the other solid headed, underneath the lining.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Linen, silk, baleen; hand-woven, hand-embroidered, hand-sewn
Brief description
Woman's stomacher of linen, 1730-50, British; embroidered with coloured silks
Physical description
Woman’s stomacher of bleached linen, backed with coarse linen, lined with a finer linen and reinforced with strips of baleen. It is embroidered with coloured silks in stem and satin stitches and French knots in a single branching stem, bearing exotic flowers and leaves, against a ground of back-stitched diaper pattern. The edges are bound with narrow yellow silk grosgrain ribbon.

There are two pins, one loose headed and the other solid headed, underneath the lining.
Dimensions
  • Centre front length: 28cm (approx)
  • Width: 20cm (approx)
  • Width: 1.5in (minimum)
  • Width: 3.5cm (minimum)
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.405-1977

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Record createdSeptember 21, 2007
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