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The complexity of the woven structure and the quantity of metal thread incorporated would have made the fabric highly expensive. The silver thread is now rather tarnished and worn, but would originally have glittered with movement.<br><br><b>Materials & Making</b><br>The silk has been altered at some stage since its first use, and made up into a cover or small hanging. The intrinsic value of such a silk made it worthwhile reusing it in a different form when it had ceased to be fashionable for dress, or even when damaged or worn. This panel has been carefully assembled from a number of pieces of varying size.<br><br><b>People</b><br>The design and colouring of this silk are very similar to that of the silk in a dress worn by Anne of Denmark (1574-1619), wife of James I (ruled 1603-1625), in a painting by Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger  (1561-1636). Peacock feathers were considered an appropriate symbol for a queen, since the bird was sacred to Juno, wife of Jupiter, King of the Roman gods.","physicalDescription":"Woven silk dress fabric with a white and silver ground and a design of peacock feathers surrounded with small flower sprigs in pink, cream and green silk and silver-gilt thread.\r\nThe silk has been made up into a long panel with a centre seam and many smaller joins, making it impossible to work out its loom width, or to determine the number of repeats there would have been originally in the width. The panel has a braid of silk and silver wire around the top and sides, and a fringe made of silver thread at the bottom.\r\nTechnical details :  satin ground (?7&1) with white silk warps and wefts. Supplementary weft of silver wire bound in 1/3 twill order. Supplementary unbound patterning wefts of yellow, green, pink and cream silk. Centre of peacock feather brocaded with paired shoots of silver-gilt thread, bound in plain weave.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"silk","id":"AAT14072"},{"text":"silk (textile)","id":"AAT243428"},{"text":"metal thread","id":"x30421"}],"techniques":[{"text":"weaving","id":"AAT53642"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Woven silk, brocaded with metal thread","categories":[{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"},{"text":"British Galleries","id":"THES48985"},{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Europeana Fashion Project","id":"THES265804"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006AM5026"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"56E","id":"THES49241"},"free":"","case":"CA1","shelf":"","box":"2"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dress fabric","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Italy","id":"x28927"},"association":{"text":"woven","id":"AAT53642"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1600-1620","earliest":"1600-01-01","latest":"1620-12-31"},"association":{"text":"woven","id":"AAT53642"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"142.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"including fringe","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"49","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Length","value":"6.25","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"repeat","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"5.25","unit":"in","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"repeat","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions checked: Measured; 07/09/2000 by dw/fn. Post conservation dimensions\n\npost-conservation dimensions by Flora Nuttgens 07/09/2000 replacing those taken by DW 01/04/1999; depth remains that given by DW.","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Brocaded silk dress fabric, Italy, 1600-1620.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"feather","id":"AAT11809"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"British Galleries:\nFabric of this high quality was not made in Britain at this time, but had to be imported. Italian silks were particularly fashionable, but very expensive. The portrait illustrated shows James I's queen, Anne of Denmark, wearing a silk woven with a similar peacock feather design.","date":{"text":"27/03/2003","earliest":"2003-03-27","latest":"2003-03-27"}}],"partNumbers":["T.361-1970"],"accessionNumberNum":"361","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1970,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN1865","2019LR1733","2019LP7025","2019LV5038","2019LX0554"],"recordModificationDate":"2025-11-14","recordCreationDate":"1999-03-10","availableToBook":false}}