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Chenille was a type of thread produced with pile protruding from all sides.  Chenille is French for ‘caterpillar’, a name that accurately describes its velvety texture.  It was much used in embroidery and woven fabrics in the 18th century, adding texture and depth to designs. \r\n\r\nOn this waistcoat, the chenille threads graduate in shade from light to dark green on the leaves and white through pink to dark red on the flowers, giving each a three-dimensional quality.  The arrangement of the embroidery covering the whole of the waistcoat and the large scale of the pattern are typical of Baroque design.","physicalDescription":"Man’s waistcoat of brown silk taffeta with a round neck, curving fronts, skirts reaching between the knee and middle of the thigh.  Each front had a pocket opening and scalloped pocket flap.  The waistcoat and pockets are lined with linen; the fronts faced and skirts, pocket flaps lined with ivory silk twill.  The fronts are embroidered all over with silk and silk chenille threads in shades of pink, purple, green, yellow and blue in a pattern of large flowers and leaves. There are 17 worked buttonholes along a strip of brown silk under the left front edge and 16 (1 now missing) corresponding buttons, covered in brown silk thread on the right front.  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