Dress fragment
Category
Costume
Date
1810 - 1820
Materials
Cotton, Thread
Measurements
1980 mm (H)890 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350786.3
Summary
One of four fragments of a dress - length of skirt, two parts of the bodice and a crescent piece with evidence of seaming. It is made from muslin with handworked 2 leaf spot pattern in heavy cotton thread. The end of the piece has a strip of pink and metal thread weaving cf.SNO 414. There are numbers stitched on - 7/8, 2642, 003. The cut end is over sewn.
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor
Marks and inscriptions
7/8, 2642, 003 (stitched on)