Waistcoat Part
ca.1615 (made)
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This panel once formed the left front and side of a woman's waistcoat, with a triangular insertion or gore, inserted into the lower edge. It is embroidered in a repeating pattern of strawberries in shades of pink and red to represent stages of ripening. The silver-gilt thread is worked mainly in plaited braid stitch and the silks in detached button-hole stitch. Such vibrantly embellished waistcoats were a popular style in English women’s fashions of the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Linen, silk, silver, gold; hand-woven, hand-embroidered, hand-sewn |
| Brief description | Left front and side of a woman's embroidered linen waistcoat, ca.1615, English; silk and metal threads in a pattern of strawberries. |
| Physical description | Left front and side of a woman's waistcoat of fine bleached linen, embroidered with silk floss in detached buttonhole-stitch with shades of pink and green, silver and silver-gilt filé in plaited braid stitch, in a design of scrolling stems, strawberry flowers and ripening strawberries. |
| Dimensions | Dimensions will be added after mounting. |
| Object history | Purchased from Christie, Mason & Woods in 1926, together withT.258-1926, an early 17c embroidered nightcap for a total of £65 5s. |
| Summary | This panel once formed the left front and side of a woman's waistcoat, with a triangular insertion or gore, inserted into the lower edge. It is embroidered in a repeating pattern of strawberries in shades of pink and red to represent stages of ripening. The silver-gilt thread is worked mainly in plaited braid stitch and the silks in detached button-hole stitch. Such vibrantly embellished waistcoats were a popular style in English women’s fashions of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. |
| Bibliographic reference | John Lea Nevinson, Catalogue of English Domestic Embroidery of the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Textiles, London: HMSO, 1938, p.78 |
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| Accession number | T.259-1926 |
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| Record created | August 25, 2005 |
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