Dress Fabric
1600-1650 (made)
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Dress fabric of silk velvet, woven in cut and uncut mauve-coloured pile on a cream-coloured silk ground. Pattern of angular stems forming lozenge-shaped compartments, which are filled with serrated leaves springing from the stems.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk velvet |
| Brief description | Dress fabric, silk velvet, Italy, 1600-50. |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of silk velvet, woven in cut and uncut mauve-coloured pile on a cream-coloured silk ground. Pattern of angular stems forming lozenge-shaped compartments, which are filled with serrated leaves springing from the stems. |
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| Object history | Purchased (31&A-1903, £1 19s. 10d.). Registered File number 2481/1903. |
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| Accession number | 31-1903 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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