Cap
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Small infant cap made of gossamer cotton. Eyelet embroidery; star-shaped crown. Vine border and motif with ferny leaves, eyelet berries and pepper-like shapes with various needle-run fillings worked on net. Tiny eyelet/leaflet spots fill the ground. Miniscule linen drawstring in back, front one lost within the casing; apparently no eyelets were worked for the strings. Ribbon tie loops at chin corners.
G2008.098
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Headwear
Infant
Historic Costume
Cap
Unisex
Cotton
Linen
White
circa 1800 - circa 1835
User Age: Infant Gender: Neutral
American
cap
hat
headwear
baby
infant
goossamer cotton
gossamer
cotton
eyelet
embroidery
embroider
vine
fern
leaf
berries
net
leaflet
linen
drawstring
Rhode Island
United States of America
North America