Fabric fragment collection
Horrockses
Category
Costume
Date
1870 - 1880
Materials
Silk taffeta, scrim.
Place of origin
Preston
Order this imageCollection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 602615.4
Summary
A woman's set of fabric fragments from a suit, made from lavender chine silk taffeta. The fragments appear to be what is left from the historic re-working of the bodice, with one shaped piece lined in cotton scrim that has been removed from the bodice neckline along with a variety of smaller scraps, original purpose unknown. To go with 602615.1 to 602615.5, woman's suit.
Provenance
Gift of Heather Boyd, Dublin.
Makers and roles
Horrockses , maker