Dress fabric of brocaded silk, possibly made in England, 1840-1870Dress fabric of brocaded silk. Consisting of nearly the whole of the width seamed to half a width. The pattern is brocaded on a black ground and consists of two vertical bands of posies of field flowers in natural colours on either side of a band of figured shaded green foliage and with half a band of the foliage on the further side of the floral bands.