Petticoat
Item
-
Title
-
Petticoat
-
Description
-
Mysterious knitted garment due to its intricacy and lack of seeming but size made it unusual for this time and hand knit nature. Knit with 2-ply wool, this petticoat has surface decoration of animals, birds, and trees knitted in purl and plain stitch. There are no seams meaning the piece was knitted in the round (not possible on a frame at the time) with a circumference of over 3 meters. The pattern does not repeat. A true mystery of knitting this is probably the work of a master knitter, possibly for entry into a guild, knit on fine needles with 2-ply wool.
-
Date
-
1700-1750 AD
-
Format
-
Stocking stitch, purl stitch, lace knit
-
Provenance
-
Bequeathed by Lt. Col. G. B. Croft-Lyons FSA.
-
Identifier
-
T.177-1926
-
Access Rights
-
Personal use access with restrictions (Maximum 4000 copies, or 5 years digital use; No book jacket, or homepage lead image use; Maximum A5 print / 768px digital use; Images © Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
