Waistcoat
1780s (made)
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| Place of origin |
Man’s waistcoat, the fronts of fine bleached cotton with horizontal satin and plain-weave stripes, the back of bleached linen. It has a round neck, wide revers, straight fronts each with a welted pocket, reaching to the hip. The waistcoat is lined with linen. A ⅜-inch (6 mm) wide ribbon of cotton printed and tamboured with silver filé edges the fronts, revers, pocket welts and hems. The waistcoat has a double-breasted effect with 12 (all missing) buttons on the right side, with 10 corresponding worked buttonholes and another 10 buttons (all missing) on the left. There are 9 tassels tamboured in silver filé on each side and 1 on each revers
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton, linen, silver; hand-woven, printed, hand-embroidered, hand-sewn |
| Brief description | Man's waistcoat of white satin striped cotton with revers, Great Britain, 1780s; M, , printed braid, embroidered with silver thread |
| Physical description | Man’s waistcoat, the fronts of fine bleached cotton with horizontal satin and plain-weave stripes, the back of bleached linen. It has a round neck, wide revers, straight fronts each with a welted pocket, reaching to the hip. The waistcoat is lined with linen. A ⅜-inch (6 mm) wide ribbon of cotton printed and tamboured with silver filé edges the fronts, revers, pocket welts and hems. The waistcoat has a double-breasted effect with 12 (all missing) buttons on the right side, with 10 corresponding worked buttonholes and another 10 buttons (all missing) on the left. There are 9 tassels tamboured in silver filé on each side and 1 on each revers |
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| Marks and inscriptions | 29 (Handwritten in black ink on the lining below the right armhole.) |
| Credit line | Part of the Gorst collection, given by Mrs Katherine Rachael Thomas |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | CIRC.127-1963 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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