Antique Box Guide

This is an effect created during the finishing of the silk material called Calendering. This involves folding the silk material and passing it under rollers at high temperatures and pressures. The result is an attractive wavy, watermarked patterning to the silk.

Moiré Silk was sometimes used for the interior wall lining of boxes, jewellery tray lining, document book lining, and lining the insides of the concealed leather-bound letter wallets in the lid section of the box.

Blue moiré silk from an Asprey antique jewellery box.

Asprey Antique Jewellery Box in Rosewood.

Antique moiré silk lining from a Howell, James & Co. jewellery box.

Antique Jewellery Box in Amboyna, by Howell, James & Co.

Purple moiré silk from an antique jewellery box in coromandel with cantilever mechanism.

Antique Jewellery Box in Coromandel with Cantilever Mechanism.