Not currently on display at the V&A

Dress Fabric

1750-1755 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Piece of brocaded silk damask, woven in colours on a yellow ground. Leafy stems of convolvulus and detached sprays of carnations on a ground covered with a diaper of short bars and dots.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Brocaded silk damask
Brief description
Dress fabric, brocaded silk damask, Spitalfields, England, 1750-55.
Physical description
Piece of brocaded silk damask, woven in colours on a yellow ground. Leafy stems of convolvulus and detached sprays of carnations on a ground covered with a diaper of short bars and dots.
Dimensions
  • Length: 21in
  • Width: 10.375in
Object history
Trimmed with narrow reddish silk fringe. It was bordered on three sides (when purchased) with yellow brocaded damask. Embroidered through two thickness of linen, and stitched to a cotton lining. Formerly part of the border to the bed cover of 357-1903. The silk fringe has now (January, 1904) been removed.

Purchased (357 to H-1903, £20). Registered File number 85324/1903.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
357G-1903

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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