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Bonnet

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Black silk faille Quaker bonnet, wire frame with cardboard brim. Coarse cotton netting in crown of bonnet, with brim lined with China silk and strip of muslin. Silk faille ties hanging from bonnet. Ties of bonnet are machine-sewn down sides. No bavolet. The rest is hand sewn and hand finished. Small stain on China silk lining, and hole in silk faille tie on left-hand side.

2024.48.002

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Historic Costume

Accessory

Headwear

Quaker

Bonnet

Female

Taffeta

Faille

Silk

Taffeta

cotton tarlatan

1856 - 1900

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