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Dress Fabric

1720-1725 (woven)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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.


Object details

Category
Object type
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.
Dimensions
  • Max length: 99cm
  • Width: 107cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Transliteration
Credit line
Given by the executor of the estate of Janet Arnold
Collection
Accession number
T.119-2001

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Record createdAugust 3, 2001
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