Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Balkan Mountains
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349251
Summary
Waistcoat from the Balkans? made from red napped wool with a blue silk tabby lining. It is trimmed with gold braid and Russian braid in a design of flowers and curvilinear lines overall. It has been altered and frequently taken up and let down. Boureoise costume. (male) Full length red napped wool waistcoat decorated with gold lace and Russian braid with floral designs. Thought to be 19th century. - Textile conservation studio.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade