James Leman
Dress Fabric

CultureEnglish
Titles
  • Dress Fabric
Datec. 1730
PlaceLondon, England
MediumBrocaded silk
DimensionsIrregular cut: 21 × 40 inches (53.3 × 101.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with departmental funds
Object number93.403
Not on view

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Object Type
Provenance[Martin Kamer Ltd., Zug, Switzerland]; purchased by MFAH, 1993.
Exhibition History"Fabric of Fashion," at MFAH Sep. 10 - Nov. 6, 1994

“Comfort and the Eighteenth-Century Interior,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rienzi, September 13, 2014–February 1, 2015.

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Velvet Panel
late 16th–early 17th century
Silk, cotton, and metal-wrapped thread: cut and voided velvet, brocaded
2015.80
Registrar snapshot
1770s
Silk brocade
2022.120
Recto detail
1600–1650
Silk satin damask
2022.121
Overall recto
early 18th century
Silk satin damask
2022.122
Fragment, Silk Brocade
18th century
Silk
33.14.A-.F
Evening Dress
James Galanos
c. 1988
Silk jaquers satin, lace, netting, silk chiffron, and metal
2000.495
Dress
James Galanos
c. 1992
Plain weave wool, felt wool, silk, satin, satin ribbon, metal, and plastic
2000.494
Fabric
early 19th century
Silk
79.284.1
Polaroid from object file
18th century (possibly)
Silk and gold thread
36.37
Textile Fragment
18th century
Silk and metalic thread
33.31
front
James Galanos
1986
Silk chiffon, crystal and jet beads, and paillettes
87.365.1
Jinbako
early 20th century
Wood, lacquer, gold powder, mother-of-pearl, wool, mica, steel, brass, silver, bone, feather, paper, ink, gilt, silvered and brocaded paper, silk wrapping cloths
2012.416.1-.11