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1850 / 1899, Russia

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Victoria and Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum
Identifier
549-1907
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Material
Metal thread
Cotton
Silk
Technique
Weaving
Depiction
  • Floral motif 65%
Production time
1850 / 1899
19th century (dates CE)
Production place
Russia
Type of object
costume

Description

Accurately aligning buttons with the loops into which they fasten is tricky, but when 28 buttons had to be attached along the 112 cm (44 in) front opening of this dress, a relatively quick and simple technique was used. Instead of sewing each button and its corresponding loop in place, a length of orange silk cord was threaded through the metal loop at the base of shiny hollow brass or solid lead button (both types are used on this dress). Once the buttons had been strung onto the cord, it would have been easy to stitch the cord along one edge of the front opening, spacing the buttons at regular intervals. A corresponding cord was stitched to the other edge, forming a loop opposite each button. The colour of these cords has faded but was originally bright orange and because the silk is floss (untwisted) silk, it was originally glossy and added to the shine and glitter of this dress. Woman's dress, or sarafan, silk brocaded with metal thread and cotton.

The data contained in ADASilk comes from the archives of Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, CDMT Terrassa, Europeana, Gallica, Garín 1820, Joconde Database of French Museum Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mobilier International, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Musée des Tissus, Musei di Venezia, Museo de Arte Sacro El Tesoro de la Concepción, Paris Musées, Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España, Rhode Island School of Design, Sicily Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian, Versailles, Victoria and Albert Museum. The Virtual Loom and Spatio-Temporal Maps visualizations have been developed by Universitat de Valencia. ADASilk is based on a generic exploratory search engine for knowledge graphs being developed at EURECOM and includes scientific contributions from Universitat de Valencia, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Lyon 2, Universita Degli Studi di Palermo, GARIN 1820 S.A., Institut Jozef Stefan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Monkeyfab, and Instituto Cervantes.

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