Quilted Petticoat
1740-1760 (made)
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Two and a quarter panels of a woman’s petticoat of blue silk satin, lined with linen striped in white and two shades of red, and wadded with a layer of dark blue wool. It is quilted in running stitch with blue silk thread in a horizontal pattern of an undulating leafy vine with sunflowers against a background of parallel diagonal lines at the hem, with a 1 inch (2.5 cm) by ¾ inch (1.9 cm) diamond pattern above. The hem has been cut off.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, linen, wool; hand-woven, satin weave, hand-sewn, hand-quiltied |
| Brief description | Panels from a woman's petticoat, 1740-1760, British; Chinese blue silk satin, quilted with sunflowers and diamond pattern |
| Physical description | Two and a quarter panels of a woman’s petticoat of blue silk satin, lined with linen striped in white and two shades of red, and wadded with a layer of dark blue wool. It is quilted in running stitch with blue silk thread in a horizontal pattern of an undulating leafy vine with sunflowers against a background of parallel diagonal lines at the hem, with a 1 inch (2.5 cm) by ¾ inch (1.9 cm) diamond pattern above. The hem has been cut off. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Miller, Lesley Ellis, and Ana Cabrera Lafuente, with Claire Allen-Johnstone, eds. Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 2021. ISBN 978-0-500-48065-6.
This object features in the publication Silk: Fibre, Fabric and Fashion (2021) |
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| Accession number | T.367-1910 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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