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A work made of dress: silk, plain weave; embroidered in silk floss in cross stitch; sleeves: plain weave with paired wefts, with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); dress trimed with sleeve fabric.

Tea Gown

1920s

Designed by Jessie Franklin Turner (American, 1881–1956) United Sates, New York

New York

Dress: silk, plain weave; embroidered in silk floss in cross stitch; sleeves: plain weave with paired wefts, with supplementary patterning warps forming cut pile (velvet); dress trimed with sleeve fabric

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