Dress fabric

Dress fabric of brocaded silk. With a design of isolated sprays of mixed flowers, two main groups and two smaller ones. There are three different colourways in the repeat so that the total length is 45 inches, approximately the length of the back of the original dress. The colours are green, yellow, pink, red, tan, blue and purple. The weave is brocaded tabby on lustering ground with cannellé (or tobine) stripes, self coloured.