stomacher
Summary
Cream linen embroidered with coloured silks. Narrow triangular piece of double thickness, slightly concave at top edge, tapering towards slight bulge at base; embroidered with pink carnation and other flowers down centre, in pink, green and yellow silks, mainly in satin stitch, against a background of meandering lines embroidered in yellow silk worked in back stitch.
Object Name
stomacher
Date Created
1700-1730
Dimensions
size: 33cm x 21.6cm
accession number
1957.455
Collection Group
Medium
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