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Waistcoat

1750-1759 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Categories
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Maximum height, measured down central back seam from collar to hem height: 69cm
  • Waist measurement circumference: 78cm
  • Chest measurement circumference: 89cm
  • Length of sleeve length: 49cm
  • Width across back at shoulders from sleeve seam to sleeve seam width: 32cm
Collection
Accession number
1583-1899

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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