Not currently on display at the V&A

Dress Fabric

1768 - 1770 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Brocaded silk with a cream coloured ribbed ground, on which are woven brown stripes, with bands of spots edged with wavy brown and white feathers. Between these bands are brightly coloured floral srapys, and damasked wavy stems of delicate flowers


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brief description
Panel of Spitalfields silk, 1768-1770, floral sprays with satin stripes
Physical description
Brocaded silk with a cream coloured ribbed ground, on which are woven brown stripes, with bands of spots edged with wavy brown and white feathers. Between these bands are brightly coloured floral srapys, and damasked wavy stems of delicate flowers
Object history
Woven in Spitalfields, London
Associated object
Collection
Accession number
T.44A-1912

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Record createdMay 14, 2003
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