Humeral Veil
1740-1743 (made)
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Humeral veil in cream silk satin brocaded with a floral design in gold filé and frisé threads, and bordered with green and yellow silk fringe. Large formal leaves and flowers take up the full width of the silk. The repeat is long but divided so that two similar but not identical motifs succeed one another.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk satin with gold threads and silk fringe |
| Brief description | Humeral veil in silk satin brocaded with gold filé and frisé threads, made in England, 1740-1743 |
| Physical description | Humeral veil in cream silk satin brocaded with a floral design in gold filé and frisé threads, and bordered with green and yellow silk fringe. Large formal leaves and flowers take up the full width of the silk. The repeat is long but divided so that two similar but not identical motifs succeed one another. |
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| Object history | Purchased. Registered File number 1986/211. The pattern used is very similar to those of Anna Maria Garthwaite. Brocaded Tabby: neatly all the binding warp threads have worn away and are only visible as a diagonal line on the brocading. The binding appears to have been a 3/1 twill made by a proportion of the ground warp threads, perhaps every 4th. Decoupure: 6. |
| Production | Possibly Spitalfields; trimming possibly made up ca. 1900-1925 |
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| Accession number | T.73-1986 |
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| Record created | April 17, 2009 |
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