Not on display

Dress Fabric

1825-1880 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dress fabric of figured silk. With a small scale design of sprays of white flowers and a network of scrolling blue fronds on a pale blue ground. The flower spray contains one trumpet-shaped flower and a multiple stem of tiny flowers. It is repeated in reverse in a half-drop repeat. The silks are Jacquard woven. Tabby ground with a warp of blue silk and weft of white silk. Warp twill for the blue fronds. The white flowers are formed by floating on the surface a proportion of the weft.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Jacquard woven silk
Brief description
Dress fabric of Jacquard woven silk, possibly woven at Spitalfields, 1825-1880.
Physical description
Dress fabric of figured silk. With a small scale design of sprays of white flowers and a network of scrolling blue fronds on a pale blue ground. The flower spray contains one trumpet-shaped flower and a multiple stem of tiny flowers. It is repeated in reverse in a half-drop repeat. The silks are Jacquard woven. Tabby ground with a warp of blue silk and weft of white silk. Warp twill for the blue fronds. The white flowers are formed by floating on the surface a proportion of the weft.
Dimensions
  • Repeat width: 4.69in
  • Repeat height: 6.375in
  • Length: 18.25in
  • Width: 9.75in
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
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Credit line
Given by Mrs H. Hammond
Collection
Accession number
T.41-1968

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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