Bonnet

Museum number:
2-63497
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21020063497
Alternate number:
4277 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Child’s bonnet Materials: Linen and satin, eyelet embroidery Techniques: sewn Colors: white with salmon ribbon Dimensions: 7 1/8” top to nape; 9: across nape; 48” ribbon ties Remarks: Bonnet is gathered across top to wide brim, trimmed across brim and nape with wide pink satin ribbon which ties beneath chin. 1A brim has rosette of the ribbon. A side has rosette with three buds of pink with dark center. Inner trim trimmed in hexagonal mesh net inner bonnet lining is of sheer open plain weave cotton. Center of nape attaches to knot of satin ribbon with tucks. Brim edge trimmed with white piping.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Linen (material) and Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Baby bonnets
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:
length 27 inches and width 12 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Bonnet, accession number 2-63497, described as Child’s bonnet Materials: Linen and satin, eyelet embroidery Techniques: sewn Colors: white with salmon ribbon Dimensions: 7 1/8” top to nape; 9: across nape; 48” ribbon ties Remarks: Bonnet is gathered across top to wide brim, trimmed across brim and nape with wide pink satin ribbon which ties beneath chin. 1A brim has rosette of the ribbon. A side has rosette with three buds of pink with dark center. Inner trim trimmed in hexagonal mesh net inner bonnet lining is of sheer open plain weave cotton. Center of nape attaches to knot of satin ribbon with tucks. Brim edge trimmed with white piping.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bonnet, accession number 2-63497, described as Child’s bonnet Materials: Linen and satin, eyelet embroidery Techniques: sewn Colors: white with salmon ribbon Dimensions: 7 1/8” top to nape; 9: across nape; 48” ribbon ties Remarks: Bonnet is gathered across top to wide brim, trimmed across brim and nape with wide pink satin ribbon which ties beneath chin. 1A brim has rosette of the ribbon. A side has rosette with three buds of pink with dark center. Inner trim trimmed in hexagonal mesh net inner bonnet lining is of sheer open plain weave cotton. Center of nape attaches to knot of satin ribbon with tucks. Brim edge trimmed with white piping.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Bonnet, accession number 2-63497, described as Child’s bonnet Materials: Linen and satin, eyelet embroidery Techniques: sewn Colors: white with salmon ribbon Dimensions: 7 1/8” top to nape; 9: across nape; 48” ribbon ties Remarks: Bonnet is gathered across top to wide brim, trimmed across brim and nape with wide pink satin ribbon which ties beneath chin. 1A brim has rosette of the ribbon. A side has rosette with three buds of pink with dark center. Inner trim trimmed in hexagonal mesh net inner bonnet lining is of sheer open plain weave cotton. Center of nape attaches to knot of satin ribbon with tucks. Brim edge trimmed with white piping.

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