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But a silk-weaving industry developed in England, centred around Spitalfields in London, which grew increasingly successful between 1700 and 1760. Huguenot refugee families, contributing technical and business skills, played an integral part in its development.\r\n\r\nSpitalfields weavers produced plain and patterned fabrics. Designs changed season by season, influenced by French fashions but developing a distinctive English style. \r\n\r\nThis fabric, woven in Spitalfields, is a brocaded silk satin, and was intended for ladies' gowns. The technique of brocading allowed different colours to be introduced into the pattern of a fabric in specific, sometimes very small areas. It was a more laborious process for the weaver than using patterning wefts running from selvedge to selvedge, but the resulting effect could be much more varied and lively.","physicalDescription":"Dress fabric of brocaded silk satin. Woven with a pink foot-figured satin ground with brocaded sprigs at regular intervals framed in cartouches and small ovals. The cartouches contain sprigs in black, green and pink silk and deep pink chenille thread, and the small ovals contain similar motifs but without chenille thread. The panel has a deep hem. 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