stomacher



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

costume
womenswear

Medium

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