# Skirt Panel for a Woman's Sack Gown

- By: Anna Maria Garthwaite (Woven by Daniel Vautier (English, active 1741–51); Spitalfields, England)
- Date: Design March 1, 1749
- Medium: Silk, plain weave foundation with supplementary patterning warps and supplementary brocading wefts
- Classification: Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions: 114.7 × 51 cm (45 1/8 × 20 1/8 in.); Warp repeat: H.: 66.1 cm (26 in.)
- Culture: England
- Credit line: Mildred L. Davison Memorial Fund
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/143682)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/b540e96b33d1434d17c0380c44cfa92b.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Anna Maria Garthwaite is one of only a handful of 18th-century textile designers whose names we know today. Her carefully annotated drawings (in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London) reveal her thorough understanding of European weaving technology. Her naturalistic and delicate floral fabrics have come to epitomize English taste of the mid-18th century. Evidence of this fabric’s use for a skirt can be seen at the top of the panel, where it was gathered into a seam at the waistline.

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