Dress Fabric
ca. 1778-1779 (woven)
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Dress fabric with a cream ground woven with a fine horizontal rib. Vertical polychrome stripes made with supplementary warps in two alternating patterns enclose small blue brocaded flower sprigs. The pattern appears to have been influenced by embroidery design.
The fragment is irregularly shaped, with one seam, and probably a panel from a dress.
The fragment is irregularly shaped, with one seam, and probably a panel from a dress.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Brocaded silk |
| Brief description | Dress fabric of brocaded silk, woven in Spitalfields, ca. 1778-1779. |
| Physical description | Dress fabric with a cream ground woven with a fine horizontal rib. Vertical polychrome stripes made with supplementary warps in two alternating patterns enclose small blue brocaded flower sprigs. The pattern appears to have been influenced by embroidery design. The fragment is irregularly shaped, with one seam, and probably a panel from a dress. |
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| Credit line | Given by Miss S.F.I. Birch |
| Object history | Registered File number 1986/1418. |
| Production | The silk can be dated by comparison with patterns in the Batchelor, Ham and Perigal pattern books. |
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.141-1986 |
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| Record created | January 16, 2004 |
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