Waistcoat part
Category
Costume
Date
1780 - 1799
Materials
Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348936
Summary
Parts of waistcoats - Cream ribbed silk (grosgrain). Foreparts - skirt backed with cinnamon linen and interlined with twill cotton to stabilize embroidery. Embroidery in self-coloured threads of varying thicknesses in a design resembling those for Dresden work, but mostly worked as for muslin embroidery. A few spangles put in with French knots. Cut into shapes resembling waistcoats