IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 110394 accession number: T.8-1947 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 September 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: peasant's dress LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: given by George de Menasce STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/110394 TECHNIQUES ---------- 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. weaving TECHNIQUES ---------- embroidering CATEGORIES ------ category: embroidery DATING ------ creation date: 1701 - 1801 creation date earliest: 1701 creation date latest: 1801 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 133.4