Humeral Veil

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	England (made)

Humeral veil in cream silk satin brocaded with a floral design in gold filé and frisé threads, and bordered with green and yellow silk fringe. Large formal leaves and flowers take up the full width of the silk. The repeat is long but divided so that two similar but not identical motifs succeed one another.

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Categories	Textiles Ecclesiastical Textiles
Object type	Humeral veil
Materials and techniques	Brocaded silk satin with gold threads and silk fringe Silk (Textile) Gold Thread Brocaded Satin
Brief description	Humeral veil in silk satin brocaded with gold filé and frisé threads, made in England, 1740-1743
Physical description	Humeral veil in cream silk satin brocaded with a floral design in gold filé and frisé threads, and bordered with green and yellow silk fringe. Large formal leaves and flowers take up the full width of the silk. The repeat is long but divided so that two similar but not identical motifs succeed one another.
Dimensions	Including fringe length: 100.75in Including fringe length: 255.7cm Including fringe width: 21in Including fringe width: 53.4cm Height: 30.5in Height: 77.5cm Single comber, loom width width: 20.5in Single comber, loom width width: 52.1cm Weight: 0.68kg
Object history	Purchased. Registered File number 1986/211. The pattern used is very similar to those of Anna Maria Garthwaite. Brocaded Tabby: neatly all the binding warp threads have worn away and are only visible as a diagonal line on the brocading. The binding appears to have been a 3/1 twill made by a proportion of the ground warp threads, perhaps every 4th. Decoupure: 6.
Production	Possibly Spitalfields; trimming possibly made up ca. 1900-1925
Subjects depicted	Catholicism Leaves Flowers
Collection	Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number	T.73-1986

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Record created	April 17, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O225480/humeral-veil-unknown/

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