Antique and Vintage Costume and Textiles sale makes the top estimate

A rare seventeenth century embroidery worked in bright wools on a linen ground was battled out over the telephones and reached £6,200 hammer. The unusual materials used in this embroidery (they are usually floss silk on satin for this style of work) created great interest and the brightness of the colours after 300 years was extraordinary. It has been in the same family for generations. Menswear was popular. The groovy red damask John Stephen of Carnaby Street jacket sold for £1,100 (the fabric looked like curtaining of the day) and was purchased by a major US museum. The Westwood/Mclaren black wool and leather Seditionaries jacket from the David Ireland collection made £1,600, despite the fact that David had burned a large hole in it in the back and had made a leather patch to conceal this. The jacket was bought by a Japanese collector. Chinese collectors were again out in force and the boy’s brown ground dragon, late nineteenth century robe sold for way above the estimate at £2,400. ‘The Business’ collection sold consistently well, with lots ranging from sixties day dresses to high glamour Dynasty style eightes evening wear. The highlights included Joanna Lumley’s jacket worn in Absolutely Fabulous which sold for £350 and has gone to an Australian collector and scarves worn by Helen Mirren in ‘The Queen’ which have gone to a South Korean purchaser!

Our regular costume and textile sale will be held on April 17th and our fine Passion for Fashion sale will take place on June 26th. www.kerrytaylorauctions.com