Dress Fabric
1720-1725 (woven)
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2 loom widths of silk dress fabric joined selvedge to selvedge. The silk has been unpicked from a petticoat, and shows signs of pleating into the waist. It is a plain woven silk brocaded in silver thread and silks in four colours, pale and medium blue, and pale and medium pink, on an off-white ground. The design of flowers and scrolls is in point repeat, not matched across the seam. There are three blue stripes in the selvedge.
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Materials and techniques | brocaded silk |
Brief description | Dress fabric, brocaded silk, 1720s, English (Spitalfields) |
Physical description | 2 loom widths of silk dress fabric joined selvedge to selvedge. The silk has been unpicked from a petticoat, and shows signs of pleating into the waist. It is a plain woven silk brocaded in silver thread and silks in four colours, pale and medium blue, and pale and medium pink, on an off-white ground. The design of flowers and scrolls is in point repeat, not matched across the seam. There are three blue stripes in the selvedge. |
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Credit line | Given by the executor of the estate of Janet Arnold |
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Accession number | T.119-2001 |
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Record created | August 3, 2001 |
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