Waistcoat
1750-1759 (made)
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Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curved 2-piece sleeves, curving fronts and skirts reaching to between the middle and top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of cotton, the sleeves, back, pockets, front and pocket-flap linings of bleached linen. The waistcoat is block-printed-to-shape with blue in a design of cornucopia, flower and pineapples against an abstract repeating diagonal ground, around the neck and pockets, along the fronts and hems and on the pocket flaps. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front with 12 eyelets for shank buttons (none remaining) and linen tape to hold them, on the right front. A strip of linen below the centre of the left pocket suggests that a shank button was once stitched below each pocket.
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Materials and techniques | Cotton, linen; hand-woven, block-printed, hand-sewn |
Brief description | Man's sleeved waistcoat, 1750-1759, Swiss; block printed-to-shape cotton, blue floral pattern |
Physical description | Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curved 2-piece sleeves, curving fronts and skirts reaching to between the middle and top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of cotton, the sleeves, back, pockets, front and pocket-flap linings of bleached linen. The waistcoat is block-printed-to-shape with blue in a design of cornucopia, flower and pineapples against an abstract repeating diagonal ground, around the neck and pockets, along the fronts and hems and on the pocket flaps. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front with 12 eyelets for shank buttons (none remaining) and linen tape to hold them, on the right front. A strip of linen below the centre of the left pocket suggests that a shank button was once stitched below each pocket. |
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Accession number | 1583-1899 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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