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Description: | white linen, hand-embroidered in green silk; altered to woman's blouse, one front, one back, to chest level; boat shaped neck with slits and centre back and front; neck with curved band embroidered with angular scrolls in cross-stitch, edge and slits with 2 rows of fern-stitch; below band insertion with zig-zag of whipping in white linen thread, the spaces filled with needle-weaving in green; insertion along shoulders; attached to main pieces by braid edging-stitch, along shoulders, each side of insertion, bands of cross-stitch; row of plaited braid-stitch inside the edges and outlining the shoulder panels; scrolls in whipped buttonhole-stitch at slits, quatrefoils around neck and down sleeve seams; reversed S scrolls of curls below bands at shoulders; bottom edge attached to strip of linen with green herringbone-stitch; strip seamed at centre front and extended upwards as dart; bottom edge turned up as casing for elastic tape
sleeves: long, one piece; top edge embroidered with reversed S scolls and curles, gathered under feather-stitch zig-zag and sewn to insertion; narrow insertion at underarm seams, open at end as placket; both sides of insertion with a row of laced herringbone-stitch; wrist end gathered under 2 rows of whipped zig-zag, vandykes of plaited stitch; band with cross-stitch Assisi-work of quatrefoils and crosses; wrist and placket edges worked with looped fringe; cenrte of sleeve embroidered with a stylised lamb with a cross and flag (Agnus Dei) in Cretan and whipped coral-stitches; square underarm gussets edged with laced herringbone-stitch; braid edging-stitch to narrower insertion
lining: linen facings to collar and cuffs
fastening: cenrte front slit with blue cotton band and press-stud; press-studs at cuffs; elastic tape at waist,
Accession number: NCM 1994-958 | Subjects: | costume (men's) needlework foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1880-1920 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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