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Dress

Dress
1700-1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Embroidered in polychrome silks on red silk crepe in satin stitch, with seams worked in faggoting stitches. There is a narrow edging of satin stitch on the skirt, sleeves, and neck. The cuffs and hem have a border of conventional flower sprays. This is a one-piece under-dress of the usual Island type with wide sleeves and open neck and a flared skirt, composed of six widths of which the four side ones are rather narrower than the two central ones. The front and back of the dress are made of a continuous width of material which runs right from the bottom of the skirt to the top of the neck, and back to the bottom of the skirt again.

Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleDress
Materials and techniques
silk embroidery on silk crepe
Brief description
Dress, embroidered silk crepe, Greece (Trikeri, Magnesia), 1700s or 1800s.
Physical description
Embroidered in polychrome silks on red silk crepe in satin stitch, with seams worked in faggoting stitches. There is a narrow edging of satin stitch on the skirt, sleeves, and neck. The cuffs and hem have a border of conventional flower sprays. This is a one-piece under-dress of the usual Island type with wide sleeves and open neck and a flared skirt, composed of six widths of which the four side ones are rather narrower than the two central ones. The front and back of the dress are made of a continuous width of material which runs right from the bottom of the skirt to the top of the neck, and back to the bottom of the skirt again.
Dimensions
  • Neck to hem length: 51in
  • Across sleeves width: 64in
Credit line
Given by Mrs Lewis F. Day
Object history
Registered File no. 9901/1926.

Historical significance: "According to Hadjimichaeli (p. 14), dark red dresses with silk embroidery were worn by married women on feast days--bright red with gold embroidery were for brides and newly-married women"--Register.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
T.217-1929

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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