Bodice
date: label: Date
content: 1830–40
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment composed of bodice of dress: on white, diagonally-striped, waffed ground [silkl warp, wool weft], block-printed pattern in lavender, green and orange, of vertically serpentining flowering vine. Height of repeat about 9". Goods probably machine-woven. Skirt has been dismantled. Bodice: low boned, cross-over folds in front with point, fastens by hook and eye in back; full gigot sleeves tight with shaped, edged with lavender piping as are seams of bodice.
label: Description
content: Card packed with dress reads, "Catharine Beck V.C. 1818-1895"
place: label: made in
content: USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Robert P. Brown
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-81-2-a
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Bodice
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk (warp) and wool (weft) Technique: block printed on plain weave; patterned by warp floats
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Bodice: neck to wrist): 71 cm (27 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Bodice height: neck to waist): 30 cm (11 13/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (skirt width: circumference around hem): 112 x 300 cm (44 1/8 in. x 9 ft. 10 1/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Fichu): 72 x 26 cm (28 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sleeves): 23 x 16 cm (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.)