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Costumes & Textile Collection:
Detail of Blue Dress
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Back view detail of the block-printed
dress, showing the fashionably narrow back, emphasized by the inverted
triangle of the pieced sections.
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Detail of the dress fabric showing
the registration marks (black dots) used to ensure accurate placement
of the successive printing blocks.
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Detail of the block-printed
dress showing a pieced area with indications of the small pleats
that were part of its 18th century construction.
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