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1800 / 1860, Italy

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Victoria and Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert Museum
Identifier
490-1868
Collection
Metalwork Collection
Material
Thread
Technique
  • Velvet 56%
  • Embroidery 98%
  • Embroidery 99%
  • Embroidery 68%
  • Embroidery 99%
  • Embroidery 50%
Depiction
  • Vegetal motif 67%
  • Vegetal motif 57%
Dimension
0.4 cm (depth)
125 cm (length)
8.9 cm (width)
Production time
1800 / 1860
18th century (dates CE)
19th century (dates CE)
Production place
Italy

Description

Sash made of yellow thread interwoven with gold. Fringe at one end. This gold sash was described as worn by nurses, when it was acquired in 1867. If so, it would only have been on special occasions. The bright colour which it still retains is due to the pure gold sheet wrapped around the weft threads. It would always have been an expensive and luxurious object. It was bought for £1 8s. as part of the Castellani collection of Italian Peasant Jewellery at the International Exhibition, Paris, 1867. Sash of cloth of gold, with gold fringe, Italy, 19th century.

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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