Waistcoat
1755-1760 (made)
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Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to mid-thigh. There are no pockets, only a pointed pocket flap on each front. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of fine bleached linen, the back and waistcoat lining of a slightly coarser bleached linen. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape in linen thread, with French knots, cording, quilting and drawn-thread work, in a pattern of flowers, pears and scrolls on and around the pocket flaps and along the front neck, edges and hems. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front and originally 12 buttons (all missing) on the right front.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Linen, linen thread; hand-woven, hand-embroideed, quilted, corded, hand-sewn |
| Brief description | Man's waistcoat, 1755-60, British; linen, quilted, corded, embroidered whitework |
| Physical description | Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to mid-thigh. There are no pockets, only a pointed pocket flap on each front. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of fine bleached linen, the back and waistcoat lining of a slightly coarser bleached linen. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape in linen thread, with French knots, cording, quilting and drawn-thread work, in a pattern of flowers, pears and scrolls on and around the pocket flaps and along the front neck, edges and hems. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front and originally 12 buttons (all missing) on the right front. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Edkins /BRISTOL (Handwritten in black ink on a piece of linen tape and sewn to the left back lining at the hem) |
| Credit line | Given by Dr Joan Evans |
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| Accession number | T.158-1975 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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