Waistcoat, uncut
Cooper Hewitt

Waistcoat, uncut

1760–70

Medium: silk Technique: embroidery using satin, stem, running and knot stitches on 7&1 satin weave foundation Label: silk satin embroidered with silk in satin, stem, running and knot stitches
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Panel of uncut embroidered waistcoat fronts with shaped pocket flaps and button covers, embroidered in twenty colors of silk floss on ivory silk satin ground. Overall small floral sprig, floral borders down center front, basked of fruits on pocket flaps, and at the lower edges a design of a cow and oxen under a tree.

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