Coat part
Category
Costume
Date
1750 - 1760
Materials
Cotton, Flax, Hessian, Horsehair, Horse-hair, Velvet
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350637
Summary
Part of a coat made from black cut and uncut velvet with a lining of cream silk tabby. It has an interlining of black glazed cotton, hessian pocket lining and also contains horsehair and flax fibres. See article in COSTUME ( The journal of the Costume Society) No. 11, published 1977, 'Fabrics and Thread in a Man's coat of 1735' by June Dalton. (male)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor