Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Blue silk satin skirt embroidered in colored silks with a design of flowers and birds; trimmed with black satin bands and black silk braid. Waistband of white linen lined with pink silk woven with a fret pattern. The skirt is made in two parts designed to wrap around the body, with straight panels in the front and back and pleated sections at each side.
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Estate of Mrs. Robert H. Patterson
- 19th century
- Accession Number
- 1941-31-31
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Skirt
- Medium
- Medium: silk embroidery, silk foundation Technique: embroidered on satin weave Label: silk satin, embroidered with silk
- Dimensions
- H x W: 97.2 x 292.1 cm (38 1/4 x 115 in.)
- made in
- China
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1941-31-31
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4bd1c4dff-c356-4c00-83e4-e6ddc06f6907
