Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
1700 - 1720
Materials
Linen, Silk, Wool
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348922
Summary
Waistcoat - Fine linen top and coarse linen underneath, quilted all over with cream 20 ply silk in back stitch. Design of small feathers and 'rose window' marguerites threaded with twisted sheeps wool. Ground of small lozenges. Fronts curve away - slashed at sides and centre back. Sleeveless. 9 eyelets oversewn for front lacings. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade