Dress Fabric
1750s (made)
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Dress fabric of woven silk. Warp-stripe figured silk. Tabby silk with a many-coloured warp forming shaded stripes of eau-de-nil, blue and grey, yellow and pink, and white. A pattern warp in white silk flushing to the front or the back of the silk is bound in a pattern of outlined leaves on a diamond lattice on the pink and yellow stripes, and in a reciprocal half-filled meander on the blue-grey stripes. A pattern warp in shades of blue and grey is bound in diamond shapes up the centre of the white stripe. Both selvedges survive, and the width of the silk between them being 19.375 inches. The selvedge is in tabby with warp threads of red, white and black silk and with a single cord.
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Materials and techniques | Woven silk |
Brief description | Dress fabric of woven silk, Spitalfields, London, 1750s |
Physical description | Dress fabric of woven silk. Warp-stripe figured silk. Tabby silk with a many-coloured warp forming shaded stripes of eau-de-nil, blue and grey, yellow and pink, and white. A pattern warp in white silk flushing to the front or the back of the silk is bound in a pattern of outlined leaves on a diamond lattice on the pink and yellow stripes, and in a reciprocal half-filled meander on the blue-grey stripes. A pattern warp in shades of blue and grey is bound in diamond shapes up the centre of the white stripe. Both selvedges survive, and the width of the silk between them being 19.375 inches. The selvedge is in tabby with warp threads of red, white and black silk and with a single cord. |
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Credit line | Given by Miss O. Matthews |
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Accession number | T.123-1968 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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