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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