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Mitt
Object/Artifact
Mitts, HK cotton lace pattern with beads "Pair of mitts, hand knit white cotton worked in a lace or openwork pattern with single opening for fingers. About 11” long. Toothed edge at top. Blue and gold vine around wrist; green and blue one around top; red dagged border at bottom. The rest is a mesh with pairs of metallic gold and transparent red and blue seed beads worked along the way to form color bands; there are the odd pink and green ones, and a section where the requisite beads were unavailable... the pattern does not seem precisely followed, and the right colors of beads were not always available as the knitting progressed, suggesting these were not a product of the German cottage industry. Rare.See Mitt #98.068.2"
G2007.047
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1825 - 1845
User Age: Adult Gender: Female
Hand-knit cotton lace pattern with beads
Mitts with single opening for fingers.
Mitts that are 11" long
Mitts with toothed edge at top
blue and gold vine around wrist
red dagged border at bottom
Metallic gold and transparent red and blue seed beads
Beans form color bands
Hand-knit cotton lace pattern with beads
Mitts with single opening for fingers.
Mitts that are 11" long
Mitts with toothed edge at top
blue and gold vine around wrist
red dagged border at bottom
Metallic gold and transparent red and blue seed beads
Beans form color bands
Mitts