Waistcoat
Cooper Hewitt

Waistcoat

1780–95

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

White silk satin waistcoat with white silk plain weave back; with standing collar and straight hemline, pocket flaps and covered buttons. Embroidered with polychrome silks in fifty-three colors, with an over-all floral sprig, floral border at center front, and a design of a boy playing a horn with a turkey at the lower edge.

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