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sandbox to edit more about the Braddock Sash and its reproduction by modern sprang scholar Carol James, to fit into the article on Sprang

During the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Centuries a military fashion of decorative sprang sashes in silk known as faja in Spain gained international popularity among ranking military and distinguished civilians, the fashion spreading to northern Europe and to North America. A sprang sash worn baldrick style diagonally across from the shoulder was a distinguishing ornament of rank on the battlefield. Major General Edward Braddock was carried mortally wounded from the battlefield on his sprang sash as a stretcher, and was said to have passed this sash to George Washington who kept and used it for the remainder of his life. The red silk Braddock Sash is held at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, and has been replicated for the museum by modern sprang scholar and artist Carol James.

RuTemple (talk) 00:04, 13 September 2017 (UTC)