Rare, unusual and interesting antique costumes and textiles; for museums and collectors looking for that extra special piece, for new and established collectors and for those with a modest budget who want to adorn their person or home.

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Spitalfields Silk
c 1815

These type of stoles often have unusual and suprising colour combination but they always seem to work.

Cataloguing

stole, the rich mid blue twill weave ground woven with deep ends of sprays of flowers surrounded by minute flowers, all in brilliant shades of apricot, orange ivory, mauve, pink, lemon and green, the lower narrow border with ivory daisies, the sides with a pale blue and silver stripe, 8 ft 3 in x 21 in or 2.6 x 53 m

Condition

Very good. Just a few darkish small spots to one end of the blue and a few marks to the other.