20th century
Black velvet waistcoat decorated on the front and back with large stylised floral motifs and bands of floral scrolling all worked in gold coloured lurex. In addition there are applied gold coloured sequins kept in place with a piece of crinkly purl metal thread.
TRC 2022.1403a
Waistcoat
Textile Research Centre
Cotton synthetic metal lurex
Factory woven (plain velvet) cloth machine embroidered (chain stitch) hand applied sequins