Asset number
957451001
Description
A woman's apron; rectangular-shaped, part of festive dress. The ground is a fine gauge, weft faced tabby woven cloth, worked in orange wool, broken up with coloured bands of different widths. The widest, a purple band, is embroidered with white and red flower motifs; a lower, narrower band, worked in white, pink, red, green, blue and black wools, has an all-over pattern of diamonds. This type of embroidery, and that on three narrower bands, mimics supplementary weft. The upper section of the apron has been folded (towards the wearer). The top two corners of the apron have been folded over and sewn, and thus hidden. Apron's ties are made of rough cord. The sides and hem are trimmed with black cotton velvet cloth.
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Using this image
Commercial use
To license images for charged-for journals and publications, and other commercial uses, please contact British Museum Images.
Contact BM images
Non-commercial use
You are permitted to use images from the British Museum website subject to our terms of use.
The image will be released to you under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. You can read more about the British Museum and Creative Commons here.
Download this image
New photography
If you cannot see an image that you want on the British Museum website, you can order new photography from us.
Order new image