Quilted Petticoat
1750-1770 (made)
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Woman’s petticoat of white silk satin, lined with cream-coloured glazed worsted and wadded with wool. It is quilted in running stitch with white silk thread in a horizontal pattern of a leafy vine around the hem, with swags of zig-zag lines and large abstract thistles above. The petticoat is made of 6 panels of silk with pocket openings in the side seams, bound with 1¼-inch (2.8 cm) wide ivory silk ribbon. The same ribbon binds the hem. There is a wide box pleat at centre front with side pleats and an inverted box pleat at centre back with side pleats. The waist is bound with ⅞-inch (2.2 cm) wide unbleached linen tape, which forms the ties.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, wool, linen; hand-woven, hand-sewn, hand-quilted |
| Brief description | Woman's petticoat, 1750-70, British; white silk satin, quilted in a large pattern of thistles, zig-zags |
| Physical description | Woman’s petticoat of white silk satin, lined with cream-coloured glazed worsted and wadded with wool. It is quilted in running stitch with white silk thread in a horizontal pattern of a leafy vine around the hem, with swags of zig-zag lines and large abstract thistles above. The petticoat is made of 6 panels of silk with pocket openings in the side seams, bound with 1¼-inch (2.8 cm) wide ivory silk ribbon. The same ribbon binds the hem. There is a wide box pleat at centre front with side pleats and an inverted box pleat at centre back with side pleats. The waist is bound with ⅞-inch (2.2 cm) wide unbleached linen tape, which forms the ties. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs G. T. Morton |
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| Accession number | T.66-1976 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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