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Cap

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand stitched thin white cotton. Horseshoe crown, deep brim with tiny neck and front casings. Loops for ribbons at corners. Additional casing near back of brim. Design of circles and ovals made of heavy cotton boullion-stitch forming corrugated outlines. Connected with leafy branches; vine border; French knot florets scattered about. Circles filled with knit ‘bobbinet,’ ovals with sprigged same. One looks like needle lace.

G96.121

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Headwear

Infant

Historic Costume

Cap

Unisex

Cotton

Cotton

White

1810

User Age: Infant Gender: Neutral

American

Cap

Hat

Headwear

Infant

baby

hand stitched

cotton

horseshoe

circle

oval

boullion-stitch

vine

leaf

branch

French knot

floret

bobbinet

needle lace

lace

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