Description:
Long-sleeved waistcoat decorated with a flowering vine design in gold-colored silk embroidery on the body and sleeve cuffs on cream-colored linen. Gold-colored silk embroidery was very popular in the first decades of the 18th century in England. Countless examples of coverlets and garments arrived in Europe from Gao in Portuguese India, which may have inspired this waistcoat. The closely spaced, embroidered silk buttons are also old-fashioned. Covering buttons in either fabric or silk thread embroidery was one of the first jobs given to apprentice tailors. If the cloth covering the buttons has been previously embroidered, the wooden button forms still needed to be carefully covered and strongly stitched into place on the finished garment.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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