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Description: | White cotton, quilted with cream silk in small diamonds onto loosely woven cotton back. Embroidered with floral pattern in shades of pink and green silk in chain stitch; Mughal style of embroidery from North India or Kashmir, probably a cover or piece of household furnishing recycled into garment. Wide low neck, fronts each in one section, lined with linen, shaped to waist and flared below; back above waist in two sections of fish scale quilting without embroidery, two flared sections below waist similar to front; side and back seams open below waist, centre front corners rounded; nine buttonholes on left front between neck and waist, concealed under applied strip running from neck to hem, similar strip on right front; edges bound linen tape;
Technique: quilted
Technique: embroidering
Material: cotton
Material: silk
Material: linen
bodice, 1740-1760, (1962.193). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.14497 | Go to resource |
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