Not currently on display at the V&A

Sample

1928 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Fabric sample for an embroidered stage dress. Peach silk with an overlay of peach chiffon with an embroidered and appliqued curving floral spray in floss silk in pale green, yellow, pinks and orange, mainly in long and short stitch and French knots. Appliqued flower heads in pale pink and yellow velvet and deep orange silk.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Embroidered silk and chiffon, appliqued with velvet and silk
Brief description
Fabric sample for an embroidered stage dress, embroidered by Eveline Gordon, England, 1928.
Physical description
Fabric sample for an embroidered stage dress. Peach silk with an overlay of peach chiffon with an embroidered and appliqued curving floral spray in floss silk in pale green, yellow, pinks and orange, mainly in long and short stitch and French knots. Appliqued flower heads in pale pink and yellow velvet and deep orange silk.
Credit line
Given by Miss E. Gordon
Object history
Registered File number 1986/63.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.243-1986

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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