Dress made from orange silk backed with a red cotton twill. The silk has a damask design of blossoms and branches. The silk is hand embroidered with random flowers. The sleeve cuffs are embroidered with various motifs including 'chicken feet' and palm trees.
TRC 2005.0133
Dress
Textile Research Centre
Silk cotton
Factory woven (plain weave damask twill) cloth hand embroidered (Cretan stitch latter stitch buttonhole stitch fly stitch Oriental stitch herringbone stitch)