Dress fabric

Unknown1840/1870

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Consisting of nearly the whole of the width seamed to half a width. The pattern is brocaded on a black ground and consists of two vertical bands of posies of field flowers in natural colours on either side of a band of figured shaded green foliage and with half a band of the foliage on the further side of the floral bands.

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Details

Title: Dress fabric
Creator: Unknown
Date Created: 1840/1870
Location: England
Provenance: Given by Mr J. Sassoon
Medium: Brocaded silk

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