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Dress Fabric

ca. 1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Set of eight dress panels of machine-embroidered white satin with coloured silks. Each piece has a border of a row of half-fan shapes from which spring sprays of small flowers and leaves. The ground is powdered with small flowers, red stars and white dots. Some of the sections are lined with white and blue silk or white net. Parts from a skirt and bodice.


Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 8 parts.

  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
  • Dress Panel
Materials and techniques
Machine-embroidered satin with coloured silks, lined with silk and net
Brief description
Set of eight dress panels of machine-embroidered satin with coloured silks, England, ca. 1880
Physical description
Set of eight dress panels of machine-embroidered white satin with coloured silks. Each piece has a border of a row of half-fan shapes from which spring sprays of small flowers and leaves. The ground is powdered with small flowers, red stars and white dots. Some of the sections are lined with white and blue silk or white net. Parts from a skirt and bodice.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Miss M. E. Pleydell-Bouverie
Collection
Accession number
T.326 to G-1965

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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