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Description: | White cotton woven with diaper of sloped bars; trimmed with hand-embroidered cotton; white cotton Leavers lace (imitation Valenciennes, pattern of groups of trios of berries above scallops, straight edge with picots), Front piece curved down to chin , extended with extra pieces; horse-shoe shaped caul, gathered at top and sewn to front with piping; sewn on flat frill of cambric embroidered with eyelets above satin-stitch Y of leaves and stem, buttonhole-stitched vandyke edge; front and just around curve of extensions, 2 frills of cambric edged with lace; cambric frill along neck edge; on left side, above neck frill, small piece of hand-made Valenciennes lace; on left side of neck small piece of Leavers lace
Fastening: ties stitched to inside of chin-flaps, left tie (probably replacement) of white cotton tape; right tie of hemmed cambric strip; tape ties in casing at back neck to tie inside CB, From the home of donor’s mother Mrs Kathleen Simons (1912-2001), formerly of 41 Beech
Avenue, Keyworth, Nottingham.
Accession number: NCMG 2005-162 | Subjects: | costume (women's) lace (machine-made : Leavers) | Temporal: | 1840-1850 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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