Stomacher
date: label: Date
content: late 17th or early 18th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Stomacher with a slightly u-shaped upper edge; the bottom finishes in a point with three independent tabs on either side. The front is linen, almost entirely covered with couched silver metallic yarns; while the metallic yarns are laid on horizontally, the couching stitches follow a "V" pattern. In the center is a single rose tied with a bow. The rose was made separately from red and green silk and gold metallic yarn in a needle lace technique; it is sewn on top of the silver couching. The center panel is trimmed with white silk piping and a narrow woven metal ribbon; eight green silk tabs project from the sides for pinning the stomacher in place. Stiffened with ribs of an unidentified material, and lined with block printed linen with a pattern of small birds in a scrolling vine in red on white.
place: label: made in
content: England
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchase; General Funds
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1984-106-1
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Stomacher
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: linen, silk, metallic (metal foil-wrapped silk core) Technique: plain weave linen foundation, embroidered on the front with couching stitches; trimmed with applied silk ribbon and woven metal trim, needle lace rose; backed with a block-printed linen lining printed with a pigment; ribs of unidentified material Label: linen embroidered with silk and metallic yarns; trimmed with needle lace rose, silk ribbon and woven metal trim; lined with block printed linen
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 37.5 × 26 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.)