Waistcoat front
1740
- Medium
- Medium: silk and metal-wrapped silk-core threads on silk foundation Technique: plain weave with supplementary warp float patterning and discontinuous supplementary wefts (brocaded)
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Left and right fronts of a gentleman's waistcoat. Large metallic scrolls and polychrome silk flowers on a textured ivory ground. Brocaded in 13 colors of silk and 6 metallic yarns.