Gloves
Clothing/Dress/Costume
One pair of hand-knitted fine white cotton gloves with beaded floral decorations worked on the back of the hand. Fancy single shell stitched border on cuff. The little finger is knitted to overlap the next one. Little gussets between the fingers. This pair is smaller than G2011.026ab. The backs have a large pink rose with foliage and smaller flowers. Beneath the cuff is a beaded border of a vine with red fruit, speculated to be either raspberries or strawberries. A border surrounds the thumb seam, made of bands of the different colors of beads. Other bead colors are opaque pink, transparent pine green and amber.
G2011.027ab
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Gloves
Historic Costume
Accessory
Gloves
Unisex
Cotton
Beads
White
1837
Inscription
On backs of both gloves
AM / 1837
English