Description:
Woman's unlined bonnet made of sage green silk with a small bavolet (2") with small tan ribbon above it to conceal gathers and two olive-green plain silk ribbon ties (24" x 2.75") sewn on to botton edge of brim, more forward than usual (looks like later work). The stiff brim (silk over cardboard?) is 5" wide and much more horizontal than other bonnets in collection (top does not ascend and bottom does not decend under chin), more like a poke or quaker bonnet. The crown is pleated on to brim (also unlike other exmaples) in 5 pleats, giving a much more rounded shape; stiffened with cotton net canvas, and a small rectangular piece of cardboard is visible on top inside crown.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Cotton; Silk Link to share this object record:
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