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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

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