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Description: | black cotton Leavers machine-made lace, allover pattern of diaper of scalloped axe-heads enclosing 3 six petalled flowers on lattice ground linked by stems with 2 trefoil leaves, irregular mesh ground; red wool repp; black silk Russian binding, SB; 2 fronts of lace over repp; V neck opening, points below waist; neck, fronts and bottom edges with binding; each front with 2 welted pocket, of lace over repp, top edge with binding; 2 backs of black cotton twill, slight upward curve at centre back; back adjustment by 2 straps sen into side seams and down from sides to side backs, fastening black japanned steel 2 prong buckle (marked "Paris")
lining: cream cotton sateen printed with grey and green lines
fastening: 6 black basket weave buttons (backs marked "Perfection 22"), buttonholes, vertical hole for watch chain between second and third buttonholes from bottom, said to have been purchased from a pawnbroker in Main St, Bulwell on hos, John Hembley's 21st birthday in 1906 (however if he was born in 1870 he would have been 21 in 1896. The donor probably has his grandfather's date of birth wrong.
Accession number: NCM 1996-33 | Subjects: | costume (men's) lace (machine-made : Leavers) | Temporal: | 1906c | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Nottingham | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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