Bed jacket: hand sewn pink cotton batiste circular form with deep border of handmade Battenberg-type or appliqué Honiton lace in large floral patter on gauze backing reinforced with machined net, in very poor condition. Pink China silk lining with satin ribbons sewn in lining to form sleeve. Pink satin ribbon rosettes strewn on surface and down front; hook and eye closure. A) length: 62 cm; width: 129 cm. B) fragment of lace; length: 16.4 cm.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
unknown
Collection date:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Bed jackets
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
Old note says "owner of jacket Florence Ives Scribner