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Description: | Cream silk satin waistcoat, embroidered with coloured silks. Waistcoat; front cream satin, embroidered ,front and bottom edges faced cream twilled silk; back and lining white cotton fronts fastening with fourteen embroidered buttons and buttonholes to four inches below round neck with standing collar; straight waistline; slit pocket,white linen and cotton, each side at waist; back in two sections, lower edge rising at centre, two pairs tape ties at waist; fronts embroidered all over with sprays of rosebuds and other flowers, in coloured silks worked in satin and stem stitch, alternating with applique circles of blue satin with black silk centres and sewn on with radiating red silk stitches; front,bottom,collar and pocket edges outlined in red and pink silk.
Technique: woven
Technique: embroidering
Technique: appliqued
Technique: stem stitch
Technique: satin stitch
Material: silk
Material: satin
waistcoat, 1780-1800, (1954.973). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.6071 | Go to resource |
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