Dress Fabric
1760-1765 (made)
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Dress fabric of woven silk. Meandering stems of berries with a ribbon twist form a loose lattice into which one bold flower-head springs. There are four repeats in the width of the material. The pattern is woven with a flush pattern warp of white silk, bound on the back at intervals, on a taffeta ground of purplish-blue. The selvedge contains some threads of pink silk.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk taffeta with a flushing warp |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of woven silk, Spitalfields, London, 1760-65 |
| Physical description | Dress fabric of woven silk. Meandering stems of berries with a ribbon twist form a loose lattice into which one bold flower-head springs. There are four repeats in the width of the material. The pattern is woven with a flush pattern warp of white silk, bound on the back at intervals, on a taffeta ground of purplish-blue. The selvedge contains some threads of pink silk. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs P. Thompson |
| Bibliographic reference | British Textile Design in the Victoria & Albert Museum, (ed.) Donald King, Tokyo 1980, Vol. II, 16 |
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| Accession number | T.71-1976 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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