Open robe
Category
Costume
Date
1740 - 1749
Materials
Silk
Measurements
495 mm (Width)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350852.4
Summary
Skirt back, part of an open robe (disassembled into four pieces). Two widths of fabric. Ground of ribbed silk with cream warps and cream and old rose wefts with woven lace patterning and brocaded trailing stems of flowers interwoven with the lace; richly brocaded in blue, green, bright pink and yellow, the design of sprays of flowers. (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor