Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1770 - 1780
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349412
Summary
Coat made from brown napped wool fully lined with brown silk. The sleeves are lined with pink cotton twill with glazed areas giving a design of stripes with cone shapes - similar to SNO.TC.470 (woman's cape). It is interlined with 2 weights of unbleached linen. There are traces of fawn silk twill lining in the collar. The borders are embroidered with multicoloured silk floss and chenille thread in a design of flowers and leaves. It fastens with flat self covered and embroidered buttons. It has been let out at the side and sleeve seams. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade