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Dress Fabric

1753 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Spitalfields (made)

Dress fabric of woven silk with a design of interwoven stems in broad meanders on a highly textured ground. White silk damask with an additional pattern weft bound in twill. The selvage is 0.125 inches wide with two green and one white stripe. The panel come from an altered dress.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Clothing
Europeana Fashion Project
Object type
Dress fabric
Materials and techniques
Silk damask
Brief description
Dress fabric of woven silk, Spitalfields, London, 1753.
Physical description
Dress fabric of woven silk with a design of interwoven stems in broad meanders on a highly textured ground. White silk damask with an additional pattern weft bound in twill. The selvage is 0.125 inches wide with two green and one white stripe. The panel come from an altered dress.
Dimensions
  • Repeat length: 19.75in
  • Repeat length: 50.2cm
  • Repeat width: 19in
  • Repeat width: 48.2cm
  • Height: 43in
  • Height: 109.2cm
  • Width: 19.5in
  • Width: 49.5cm
Credit line
Given by Miss H. M. Knowles
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.16-1969

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O261637/dress-fabric-unknown/
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