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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

From the collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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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.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own description

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Waistcoats (garments)Embroidery (visual works)

Credit lineWaistcoat, uncut. 1760–70. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf. CC0.

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