Bolero jacket
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Place of origin
Yugoslavia
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349265
Summary
Bolero jacket from Yugoslavia made from blue napped wool and lined with pink and blue striped silk tabby with pink silk damask under the arms. It is trimmed with narow braid of gold thread wrapped around a yellow core. It is decorated overall with silver thread. There is a stylised tree of life on the back and two fronts and a curvilinear design round the edges. There are small round metallic medallions round the edges with Arabic inscriptions. Inscriptions of one side of the medallions is similar to that on one side of cap SNO.TC.1778. Bourgeoise costume. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade