Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Herzegovina
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349250
Summary
Waistcoat from Bosnia/Herzegovina/Montenegro made from plum velvet with a cream cotton back and lined with cream cotton with blue silk satin neck facing. It is decorated with gold lace around the neck, down the centre front and along the hem. The gold braid is couched in running sprays of stylised flowers and leaves around the neck, centre front and along the hem. There are two stems of flowers and leaves on each front. The neck facing is edged with gold braid. Bourgeois costume. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade