WHITEWORK, DRESS, BABY

This beautifully simple babies’ long white dress is sewn by machine but finished with hand whitework embroidery and hand stitching. It is a typical example of how babies were daily dressed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries regardless of sex. The gown has a neck of machine tape with a draw string, a yoke of hand embroidered white work in a leaf design, another row of the same machine tape with pintucks ending at a waistband of the same leaf design whitework and two ties beautifully decorated in white work, pulled fabric and cutwork at the ends. The skirt is long ending in a 180mm scalloped hem with a whitework, pulled fabric and cutwork floral design. Of interest and a testament to the garments value is a hand stitched repair to one of the scallops on the front right-hand side.