Silk ribbons were used for a multitude of utilitarian and decorative purposes in 18th-century fashionable dress – for the ornamentation of women’s gowns, for garters to keep up stockings, for lacing for stays and shoes, for tying back wigs and ornamenting elaborate hairstyles and headdresses. Diderot’s Encyclopaedia in 1772 described these uses succinctly in its definition of ribbon: ‘a flat, narrow and thin fabric, used to tie, edge or ornament, for garments as well as furnishings’. Ribbons were subject to changes in fashion, just as wide silks were.
Ribbons could be bought at fairs, from travelling pedlars or from the high class retailers of major cities such as Paris (e.g. the marchands merciers of the Faubourg St Honoré which is still the city's luxury quarter today). These retailers stocked large quantities of ribbons of all sorts - from the simplest to the most elaborate - to sell to their customers, French ribbons being complemented by Dutch, Flemish, German and Swiss goods.
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| - Silk ribbons were used for a multitude of utilitarian and decorative purposes in 18th-century fashionable dress – for the ornamentation of women’s gowns, for garters to keep up stockings, for lacing for stays and shoes, for tying back wigs and ornamenting elaborate hairstyles and headdresses. Diderot’s <i>Encyclopaedia </i>in 1772 described these uses succinctly in its definition of ribbon: ‘a flat, narrow and thin fabric, used to tie, edge or ornament, for garments as well as furnishings’. Ribbons were subject to changes in fashion, just as wide silks were.
Ribbons could be bought at fairs, from travelling pedlars or from the high class retailers of major cities such as Paris (e.g. the marchands merciers of the Faubourg St Honoré which is still the city's luxury quarter today). These retailers stocked large quantities of ribbons of all sorts - from the simplest to the most elaborate - to sell to their customers, French ribbons being complemented by Dutch, Flemish, German and Swiss goods. (en)
- Narrow-woven silk, or ribbon, made of silk and metal threads, with a small metal fringe at each end. XRF analysis reveals that the two gilded silver threads were used, silver being the predominant metal, small amounts of copper and gold also seen. The metal was wound round a core of silk. The metal threads woven in create the scalloping edge at intervals down the edge. Green and coral are used to create a pattern that is reversible, green, silver and gold on one side, coral, silver and gold on the other. The pattern motif is created using warp threads in the colours. The metal fringe is made of three different qualities of metal - a wire wound round a silk core (<i>filé</i>), a curly wire (<i>frisé</i>) and a flat beaten metal (<i>lame</i>). (en)
- woven silk, with silver and silver gilded threads, 1700-50, probably French (en)
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| - Silk ribbons were used for a multitude of utilitarian and decorative purposes in 18th-century fashionable dress – for the ornamentation of women’s gowns, for garters to keep up stockings, for lacing for stays and shoes, for tying back wigs and ornamenting elaborate hairstyles and headdresses. Diderot’s <i>Encyclopaedia </i>in 1772 described these uses succinctly in its definition of ribbon: ‘a flat, narrow and thin fabric, used to tie, edge or ornament, for garments as well as furnishings’. Ribbons were subject to changes in fashion, just as wide silks were.
Ribbons could be bought at fairs, from travelling pedlars or from the high class retailers of major cities such as Paris (e.g. the marchands merciers of the Faubourg St Honoré which is still the city's luxury quarter today). These retailers stocked large quantities of ribbons of all sorts - from the simplest to the most elaborate - to sell to their customers, French ribbons being complemented by Dutch, Flemish, German and Swiss goods. (en)
- Narrow-woven silk, or ribbon, made of silk and metal threads, with a small metal fringe at each end. XRF analysis reveals that the two gilded silver threads were used, silver being the predominant metal, small amounts of copper and gold also seen. The metal was wound round a core of silk. The metal threads woven in create the scalloping edge at intervals down the edge. Green and coral are used to create a pattern that is reversible, green, silver and gold on one side, coral, silver and gold on the other. The pattern motif is created using warp threads in the colours. The metal fringe is made of three different qualities of metal - a wire wound round a silk core (<i>filé</i>), a curly wire (<i>frisé</i>) and a flat beaten metal (<i>lame</i>). (en)
- woven silk, with silver and silver gilded threads, 1700-50, probably French (en)
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