Waist blouse. Materials: Silk, metal wrapped yarns. Techniques: Taffeta and georgette over lace over satin; embroidery trim; high collar in back. Colors: Dark blue over cream; gilt embroidery. Dimensions: 18.5 inches long to point; 21.5 inch sleeves.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
London, England
Verbatim coll. place:
England, London
Culture or time period:
English
Collector:
Walter Perry Johnson
Materials:
Metal and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Blouses (main garments) and Embroidery (visual works)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)