Dress Fabric
1760s (made)
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Dress fabric of pale blue silk moiré. Blue watered silk with a floral pattern created with a flushing warp, and red selvedge. The pattern represents sprays of flowers in a unconnected meander. Two repeats per loom width. The repeats across the width of the silk are mirror-images of each other.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk moiré |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of silk moiré, made in Spitalfields, London, 1760s |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of pale blue silk moiré. Blue watered silk with a floral pattern created with a flushing warp, and red selvedge. The pattern represents sprays of flowers in a unconnected meander. Two repeats per loom width. The repeats across the width of the silk are mirror-images of each other. |
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| Credit line | Given by C.A. Burgers |
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| Accession number | T.27-1981 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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