Dress fabric

Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Woven with a cream taffeta ground and a brocaded floral design. A green branch with flowers and fruit in crimson, brown, blue and other coloured silks are displayed on an open ground. There is a small self-coloured quatrefoil motif in the background. The repeat of the design takes up the full width of the panel. The selvedge consists of one outer cord and a plain tabby strip 0.19 inch wide.