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Gown
1780 to 1800; damask ca. 1740-1760
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, United States
A widow may have worn this black worsted gown with white accessories, such as a kerchief and sleeve ruffles. Alterations and numerous mended holes are evidence that the garment saw many years of use. Typical of most elaborately patterned worsted textiles, this fabric measures only 17 inches between the selvages.
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Details
- Title: Gown
- Date Created: 1780 to 1800; damask ca. 1740-1760
- Location Created: America, New York (possibly) (worn in); Europe, England (textile)
- Physical Dimensions: OL: 57 1/2"; waist: 35 1/2"; skirt length: 41 3/4"; selvage width of damask 16 7/8"; chest 41"; shoulder width (back) 11 1/2".
- Type: Costumes, women
- Rights: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Museum Purchase.
- External Link: Learn more about this object at Colonial Williamsburg's emuseum
- Medium: Black worsted satin lined with several different linens and linen-cotton mixtures: linen at center back; linen at bodice fronts, sides, and sleeves; linen patch under right arm; cotton-linen lining sleeve cuffs. Sewn with linen, black silk, and repaired with blue cotton. Microscopic analysis 7/1998, L. Baumgarten and F. Carr.
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