18th century portraits frequently show officer's wearing crimson sashes.Originally these sashes were made from the sprang technique, which would expand. It could then be used, rather like a stretcher, to carry a wounded soldier off the battlefield. How in practice this could work is difficult to believe, that a sash could take the weight of a man! Later examples were knitted silk, as ours is.
The crimson finely knitted double silk length, caught with a silk plaited loop 1 in; 2.5 cm, each end caught into a silver plaited tassel with coiled silver strands.
The silk 3 in; 7.5 cm
5ft 5 in; 1.65 cm + the loop 2ft 4 in; 70 cm
There is one very very small nibble (smallest piece) out of one side. See photo. The tassels are slightly tarnished.
The Clothing Warrant of 1768 (Dress Regulations) specified that officers were to wear waist sashes over the waistcoat but inside the coat, which was cut-away across the belly so that the waistcoat was visible.
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