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Boudoir Cap

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1908-1925

GUSN

GUSN-12023

Description

Mauve silk (and/ or rayon?); inset crown-flower with shite twill tape center embroidered with yellow French knots with body of crocheted pink silk; brim formed by chain of 10 smaller flowers.

Details

Descriptive Terms

boudoir caps
headgear
cotton (textile)
crocheting
embroidering
stitching
rayon
silk (textile)
twill
floral patterns
Silk
Rayon
Cotton
Twill
Embroidered
Crocheted
Hand Stitched
Floral
French Knot
CAP, BOUDOIR

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Weston Historical Society

Accession Number

1993.319

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