Bodice, Medium: silk (warp) and wool (weft) Technique: block printed on plain weave; patterned by warp floats, Fragment composed of bodice of dress: on white, diagonally-striped, waffed ground [silkl warp, wool weft], block-printed pattern in lavender, green and orange, of vertically serpentining flowering vine. Height of repeat about 9'. Goods probably machine-woven. Skirt has been dismantled. Bodice: low boned, cross-over folds in front with point, fastens by hook and eye in back; full gigot sleeves tight with shaped, edged with lavender piping as are seams of bodice., Card packed with dress

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