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Mitt

Object/Artifact

Hand or machine knit fine brown silk [*] tube with thumb hole. Attached to flaring cuffs of brown silk velvet with tiny light brown dots, lined with blue silk and filled with wool or cotton batting. Finished with small brown silk taffeta ribbon bow at CF where two parts join. *Feels like soft cotton but looks wooly under lens.

G97.060

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1800 - 1850

User Age: Adult Gender: Female

Mitts

Muffetees

thumb hole

Attached to flaring cuffs

wool or cotton batting

silk taffeta ribbon bow

Mitts

Muffetees

thumb hole

Attached to flaring cuffs

wool or cotton batting

silk taffeta ribbon bow

Silk

Velvet

Wool

Cotton

Taffeta Ribbon

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