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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Cap

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand stitched fine white cotton infant cap, horseshoe crown finely sewn to brim with overcast or satin stitch. Border of buds, big spray of fernlike foliage with net centers, at each side. Ground of micro-eyelets with leaflets. Loops for ribbon at corners, casings (strings gone) at center front & center back.

G91.153

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Headwear

Infant

Historic Costume

Cap

Unisex

Cotton

Cotton

net

White

Satin Stitch

circa 1810 - circa 1830

User Age: Infant Gender: Neutral

American

Cap

Infant

baby

headwear

hat

hand stitched

cotton

horseshoe

satin stich

Buds

foliage

eyelet

leaflet

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