Sample
1933 (made)
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Sample of beaded embroidery for a stage dress. Pale green tulle embroidered with a waterscape design of water lilies and leaves in shades of green. Lily pads of taffeta appliqué and waved vertical leaves in tulle appliqué outlined in silver metallic threads. Water lilies of laid down rows of tiny costume pearls with three-dimensional centres of pearls threaded on wire. A bull rush at the left is worked in shiny floss silks in green and yellow.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Beaded embroidery, taffeta and floss silks, tulle appliqué in silver threads, and costume pearls threaded on wire |
| Brief description | Sample of beaded embroidery for a stage dress, embroidered by Eveline Gordon in the workshop of W. W. Reville Terry Ltd., England, 1933. |
| Physical description | Sample of beaded embroidery for a stage dress. Pale green tulle embroidered with a waterscape design of water lilies and leaves in shades of green. Lily pads of taffeta appliqué and waved vertical leaves in tulle appliqué outlined in silver metallic threads. Water lilies of laid down rows of tiny costume pearls with three-dimensional centres of pearls threaded on wire. A bull rush at the left is worked in shiny floss silks in green and yellow. |
| Credit line | Given by Miss E. Gordon |
| Object history | Registered File number 1986/63. An attached note from Miss Gordon: 'Leaves of taffeta hem stitched on hem stitching machine designed like this with [?] done by being help by machinist then cut between the stitching. Example in edge of water lily leaves. Raised flower petals done on wire.' |
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| Accession number | T.245-1986 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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