Pair of Stockings
1730-1769 (made)
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Stockings were essential accessories for everyone in the 1700s. The finest were made of silk, on a knitting frame which produced garments and accessories more quickly than knitting by hand. Developed in the early 1600s, the knitting frame was the first step in the mechanisation of the knitting process. Once knit, the stockings were sewn by hand up the back and hand embroidery created the decoration at the ankles, known as ‘clocks’.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Silk; frame-knit and hand-embroidered. |
| Brief description | Pair of stockings for a man or woman, 1730-1769, Spanish; frame-knit blue silk, embroidered silk clocks |
| Physical description | Stockings of frame-knit blue silk with 4 horizontal rows of white at the top. They are hand finished with clocks embroidered in satin stitch with grey, white, pink and lilac silk twist in a pyramid of floral motifs. |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss A Gill |
| Object history | Registered File number 1963/1184 |
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| Summary | Stockings were essential accessories for everyone in the 1700s. The finest were made of silk, on a knitting frame which produced garments and accessories more quickly than knitting by hand. Developed in the early 1600s, the knitting frame was the first step in the mechanisation of the knitting process. Once knit, the stockings were sewn by hand up the back and hand embroidery created the decoration at the ankles, known as ‘clocks’. |
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| Accession number | T.95&A-1963 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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