Bonnet

Museum number:
2-63496
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063496
Alternate number:
4278 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Child’s bonnet. Materials: silk faille Techniques: sewn Colors: creamy white Dimensions: 4 1/8” crown to nape; 11 1/8 across nape Remarks: [?] in concentric circles forms crown. Brim is trimmed with white silk taffeta ribbon punctuated with gathered areas and larger gathered rosettes at either end. Below ribbon is Irish lace. At edge are several layers of sheer silk hemmed with gathers. Inner lining has hemmed split upback is of white silk. Also trimming brim are clusters of velveteen rosbudo with clothleques. Papered stems wrapped in wire. Nape is trimmed in matching silk faille piping.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baby bonnets and Lace (needlework)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 4 inches and length 11 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bonnet, accession number 2-63496, described as Child’s bonnet. Materials: silk faille Techniques: sewn Colors: creamy white Dimensions: 4 1/8” crown to nape; 11 1/8 across nape Remarks: [?] in concentric circles forms crown. Brim is trimmed with white silk taffeta ribbon punctuated with gathered areas and larger gathered rosettes at either end. Below ribbon is Irish lace. At edge are several layers of sheer silk hemmed with gathers. Inner lining has hemmed split upback is of white silk. Also trimming brim are clusters of velveteen rosbudo with clothleques. Papered stems wrapped in wire. Nape is trimmed in matching silk faille piping.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bonnet, accession number 2-63496, described as Child’s bonnet. Materials: silk faille Techniques: sewn Colors: creamy white Dimensions: 4 1/8” crown to nape; 11 1/8 across nape Remarks: [?] in concentric circles forms crown. Brim is trimmed with white silk taffeta ribbon punctuated with gathered areas and larger gathered rosettes at either end. Below ribbon is Irish lace. At edge are several layers of sheer silk hemmed with gathers. Inner lining has hemmed split upback is of white silk. Also trimming brim are clusters of velveteen rosbudo with clothleques. Papered stems wrapped in wire. Nape is trimmed in matching silk faille piping.

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