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Description: | White leather gloves embroidered in pink and red silk. seamed at outer hand and round base of thumb, v-shaped sections between fingers with small gusset at base, extending half way up forearm to form gauntlet, open at seam, connected by three pieces of brown silk ribbon, gauntlet lined brown silk, forming binding at edge and showing through cut-out embroidered geometrical decoration worked in chain stitch, overcasting, buttonhole stitch and herringbone stitch, similar but without cutting out at base of fingers on back and round thumb, cut-out decoration at base of fingers on palm with needlework fillings and decoration in chain stitch and buttonhole stitch.
Owned by Mr Sidney Hand as part of his needlework collection.
Technique: sewn
Technique: embroidering
Technique: chain stitch
Technique: buttonhole stitch
Material: leather
Material: kid
gloves, 1640 - 1660, (1954.1196). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.6023 | Go to resource |
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