Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Herzegovina
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349252
Summary
Waistcoat from Bosnia/Hertzegovina/Montenegro made from plum velvet with a cream linen twill back and lined with cream linen twill. It is trimmed with gold lace across the front and around the neck. There is gold braid couched in 2 running sprays of stylised flowers round the neck, down the centre front and along the hem with one stem of flowers and leaves across each front. It fastens with metal filigree buttons with a blue glass bead at the apex. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade