Production: Unknown
Peasant's dress in coarse, cream coloured, linen embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, half cross, double running, Romanian and woven insertion stitch. The skirt is made up of four widths of linen with a band of smocking upon the gathers of the front width. The bodice has a long and narrow, oblong neck opening with an embroidered border. Over the shoulder runs a border like that on the skirt.
Given by George de Menasce
Length: 133.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1947-06) by de Menasce, George
18th Century
Circa
1701
CE
-
Circa
1801
CE
Weaving
: Peasant's dress in coarse, cream coloured, linen embroidered with polychrome silks in cross, half cross, double running, Romanian and woven insertion stitch. The skirt is made up of four widths of linen with a band of smocking upon the gathers of the front width. The bodice has a long and narrow, oblong neck opening with an embroidered border. Over the shoulder runs a border like that on the skirt.
Embroidering
Accession number: T.8-1947
Primary reference Number: 110394
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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