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Maker(s):Wood, Margaret (garment)
Culture:textile: Chinese; garment: Scottish/American
Title:gown or dress
Date Made:textile: 1700-1800; garment: 1967
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: off-white plain weave silk; polychrome paints
Place Made:textile: China; garment: United States; Massachusetts; Deerfield
Accession Number:  HD F.128
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
This garment was originally purchased by Historic Deerfield founder Helen Geier Flynt (1895-1986) as nine pieces of 18th-century painted silk, woven and decorated in China for the Western market . In 1967, Flynt had her cook and seamstress Margaret Wood construct this version of an 18th-century robe a la francaise, or sack-back gown. Selvage width of the fabric is 29", a characteristically wide width for 18th-cetnury dress silks, further suggesting Chinese origins.

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