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Waistcoat

1770-1779 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts, back skirts and pocket flaps are made of pink silk taffeta with narrow twill stripes, the back of pink worsted twill. The waistcoat is lined with fustian; the pockets with linen, the back skirts with pink worsted twill; the front skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are ivory silk twill. The waistcoat is woven-to-shape with brocaded partially wrapped silver threads and black, pink, green and maroon silk thread in a pattern of entwined bands and floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets, along the back hems and the front edges and hems. There are 12 buttonholes worked in silver thread along the left front with 12 embroidered buttons on the right front.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk, wool, linen, cotton, silver; hand-woven brocade, hand-sewn
Brief description
Man's waistcoat, 1770s, British; Pink striped brocaded silk, woven-to-shape, French or English
Physical description
Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts, back skirts and pocket flaps are made of pink silk taffeta with narrow twill stripes, the back of pink worsted twill. The waistcoat is lined with fustian; the pockets with linen, the back skirts with pink worsted twill; the front skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are ivory silk twill. The waistcoat is woven-to-shape with brocaded partially wrapped silver threads and black, pink, green and maroon silk thread in a pattern of entwined bands and floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets, along the back hems and the front edges and hems. There are 12 buttonholes worked in silver thread along the left front with 12 embroidered buttons on the right front.
Dimensions
  • Right shoulder to hem length: 72.0cm (approx)
  • Chest under armholes circumference: 87.5cm (approx)
Credit line
Given by Mrs C. H. W. Johns
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.4-1933

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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